High Strangeness
The Eschaton has come
BREAKING: South Carolina on High Alert — Authorities Warn Residents to Lock Doors and Windows After 40+ Monkeys Escape Research Facility
Hmm. Lice with Ebola maybe? Super monkey flu crossed with avian strains to be as pathogenic as possible? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men in labs?
Agamben: The medical religion has unreservedly collected from Christianity the eschatological instance that it had dropped. Capitalism, by secularizing the theological paradigm of salvation, had already eliminated the idea of ​​an end of time, replacing it with a state of permanent crisis, without redemption or end. Krisis is originally a medical concept, which designated in the Hippocratic corpus the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would survive the disease. Theologians have taken up the term to indicate the Final Judgment which takes place on the last day. If we look at the state of exception we are experiencing, we would say that the medical religion combines the perpetual crisis of capitalism with the Christian idea of ​​an ultimate time, of an eschaton.
As has happened several times throughout history, philosophers will again have to come into conflict with religion, which is no longer Christianity, but science or that part of it that has taken the form of a religion. I don't know if the fires will be lit again and books will be put on the index, but certainly the thought of those who continue to seek the truth and reject the dominant lie will be, as is already happening before our eyes, excluded and accused of spreading false news (news, not ideas, since news is more important than reality!). As in all moments of emergency, real or simulated, the ignorant will again be seen slandering philosophers and rogues trying to profit from the disasters they themselves have caused. All this has already happened and will continue to happen,
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
I feel a bad for all parties in the above situation. I also acknowledge that it it is likely a skewed story in some way. Scrying. I still spend my evenings trying to fill my brain with how folks lived a decade ago, a milennia ago. I find Eugenio Monesma's docs Youtube (sorry) to be quite lovely and decently translated from the Spanish. best
"...the medical religion combines the perpetual crisis of capitalism with the Christian idea of ​​an ultimate time, of an eschaton." This pretty much nails it, even if the eschaton plays a diminishing role.