Pill Pod 156 - Christofascism
Added 2024-02-11 00:30:40 +0000 UTCWhat if, instead of letting history end or disappear, we hit the rewind button and let the Church have another shot? We navigate through some stars in the Christofascist constellation and read Why Liberalism Failed(https://amzn.to/3waNh6l) to see what the world might look like if the Catholic intellectuals had their way.
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As a good (occasional) Irish Catholic, I need to speak up before this guy gives us all a bad name. The real enemy isn't the libs (you're OK Victor), it's the Protestants (and because I'm Irish, you know I'm discussing the British). Apart from that big mistake, the book sounds shit.
Fiachra O Raghallaigh
2024-09-23 07:43:32 +0000 UTCDoes it matter if fascism is real or simulated? they will still make the camps. Still use violence. Still spiral into a paranoia and ultimately try to destroy themselves and everyone else. All in bad faith.
Khemith
2024-03-22 08:08:35 +0000 UTCLove it! And in light of Alabama’s ruling today it could not be more pertinent.
Zachary Manenti
2024-02-21 19:46:39 +0000 UTCI was with this guy who went to work to California and there he found a Christian community private farm where he wanted to take me. They mostly produce food products that are sold to big branches like Costco. I don't know much of how everything works, or who owns that land. But they accept basically any person that is willing to give up all their belongings behind, connections etc. and accept to work in the farm in exchange of food, a place to stay and a family community that follows Jesus steps. Art and science are vanished because those are Satanás creative fields, but any knowledge of economics or law are well welcome. A lot of things are prohibited, like some music, some movies, some books, dancing and cacao (because it's an aphrodisiac) I was okay with painting and dancing, and I know that often religious people feel the permission to only express creativity in the field of punishment. So it sounded like a nightmare mostly for women and I refused. But the pandemic started and he came back to Mexico and strongly began to follow Jordan fucking Peterson. I didn't see all of that coming. He went from making weed cigarettes from bible sheet, to California Jesus state, to jordan peterson state. Omg
Mapita
2024-02-13 20:48:13 +0000 UTCAnarcho-Monotheism would be a dope premise for a work of fiction, but rapey priests have ruined its viability as an actual system of internalised psycho-law
Alex B
2024-02-13 19:37:57 +0000 UTCIt sounds like the end of history is really just the intellectual classes (priests, philosophers, historians… etc) are finally having to cope with their own irrelevance - that they too are just cogs in the great machine not the removed, disinterested voices of reason to be rallied behind. Meanwhile the rest of society already, implicitly, knows this and is dealing with it with a lot less whining. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die. 😉
Timothy Kenner
2024-02-12 13:42:57 +0000 UTCSomeone I knew was working on their second doctorate (…?) on effectively federalising/Balkanising the EU. Glad to see that thought experiment is already in print form
Mitchell Chatfield
2024-02-11 21:36:53 +0000 UTCI think we are way past going over the edge -- I'm afraid our free-fall won't last long, and we'll certainly not have to worry about anything once we've hit the bottom. So? What is it I am afraid of anyway?
Stephen Nelson Willis
2024-02-11 12:06:19 +0000 UTCThe funny thing about the “mixed regime” Deneen argues for is that its closest existing parallel is the Islamic Republic of Iran (it’s a state that has elections and civilian rule by a demos, but where ultimate authority and oversight is placed in the hands of the Shia ulama- a “guardianship of jurisprudence.” Interestingly enough, Aristotle and Classical Greek thought has had a long lasting and profound influence on Islamic legal scholarship- particularly among Shiites. ) There’s also a strong strain of political populism in political Shia Islamic movements- in the case of Hezbollah and Iran it revolves around a religious commitment to the cause of social justice, opposition to unjust political authority, and a desire for a redistributive, rather than purely laissez fair, economic system (a perspective that contrasts sharply with the more economically liberal variants of Sunni Islamism, such as the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafism.) Weirdly, I can see room for solid intellectual dialogue and cross influence between these new “Trad Cath” “aristopopulists” and theorists of Islamism. Maybe racist ignorance and Islamophobia in the US has a silve lining 😂
Isaac Suárez
2024-02-11 01:55:35 +0000 UTC
