“Interesting drug” Rob Horning 9.30.2022

1. Toni Morrison: Fascism ... is marketing for power; converting citizens to consumers and recognizable by its need to purge and its fear of democratic goals.

2. Fascism is embedded in consumerism; a kind of fascist conditioning.

3. Fascism draws its sustenance from the content/culture industries that... See more

[attitude toward tradition] would be not a simple clinging to what has been received, but also a relinquishing, even at times of things that had once seemed most precious... 145

David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022

... Christianity entered human history not as a new creed or sapiential path or system of religious observance, but as apocalypse: the sudden unveiling of a mystery hidden in God before the foundation of the world in a historical event without any possible precedent or any conceivable sequel .... 135

David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022

Masters of the Userverse: A fantasy life of push-button convenience and technological coddling is just as much a “virtual world” as any metaverse Grafton Tanner 4.28.2022

1. Userverse allows people seeking power to force other people to work like machines (sadism as a service).

2. The convenience and power fuel each other.

3. In suburbs the... See more

Clutter images Rob Horning 9.16.2022

1. In consumer society we feel useful when we participate in the circulation of goods.

2. Hoarding is a way to adapt to the quantified life; a way of upping your score.

3. Collecting dots creates a hoard where you cede intention to chance encounters with miscellaneous stuff.

4. In the digital realm as objects,... See more

And so - just as the reiterations and returns of ritual and liturgy displace the empty flow of ordinary time with ... the living eternity of penitential and joyous repetition - a living tradition ... displaces the rule of bare history with the adventure of a coherent journey ... from a remote beginning to a remote end. 144

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"Jonah: The Dynamics of Compassion” Avivah Zornberg 9.7.2022

1. Compassion as a human and divine disposition, includes the possibilities of forgiveness and helplessness.

2. Chasta - you have looked with compassion.

3. You have looked with pity and sorrow at all life.

4. God’s compassion is uncompromising. Compassion is valued more than the law.

A true fidelity to the tradition must be one that leaves open the possibility that the orthodoxies of the present ... may yet be surpassed by a fuller revelation of the truth, one that will be wholly given only at the end of tradition’s long historical course. 152

David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022

Living as they [traditionalists] do like Walter Benjamin’s angel of history, with their faces turned toward the past and backs toward the future, carried onward by historical forces whose ends they cannot see and therefore cannot understand or interpret, they resent the living tradition’s often chaotic and disruptive vitality. 131

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