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10 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
In today's video I summed up some of my learnings from @fullydavid and @Jonathan_Rowson from the previous day's video and refocused via @andrewklavan and @jordanbpeterson 1/4
The realization become increasingly stark of a man who correctly warns of ideology filling in the void left by the removal of religious communities himself does not participate in religious communities. I agree with his thesis. Do his actions exhibit agreement? 2/4
Must he heed his own warning? Did the pressure of the assault upon him by power media corporations yield an ideologization of his manner before the collapse in June 2019? 3/4
@PageauJonathan admonishes him to seek refuge in a community, a structure, something that can shield him from principalities and powers at work in our culture. "Fans" are insufficient. 4/4

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10 Jun
I'm getting so old. I remember in the 1970s the "cutting edge" of "gender equality" was assertion that one's clothing, haircut, and various other lifestyle expressions and choices didn't define you.
Boys could have their hair long, girls could wear pants. Boys could talk about feelings, girls could play sports, that was OK.
There has now been a strange inversion where there's an expressive essentialism. It used to be that the dress didn't make the woman, now it does. I noticed representation in children's animated stories in my news feed.
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10 Jun
Thanks to a friend we finally replaced the stolen mailbox with a mail slot here at the church.
Couldn't find what I wanted for a sign so I went to Amazon to figure out how to mark the outside of the slot to help the postal people get delivery right.
This brought me to a world of signage at Amazon I was quite unfamiliar with. Identity through propositional confessional profession appears alive and well and flourishing in the capitalist marketplace.
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9 Jun
In today's video I comment on a video posted recently by @WisdomRebel which had a commentary between @fullydavid and @Jonathan_Rowson on the @jordanbpeterson phenomenon
@Jonathan_Rowson coined the term "Jordan Petersonitis" to label both the obsessive fascination with him that @fullydavid, myself, and many others had with him 4 years ago while others were repulsed by him out of hand. Now with some distance it's good to do some assessment.
In January 2018 @nytdavidbrooks reported a friend calling him the most influential public intellectual right then. nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opi… A quote attributed a bit ironically to "The New York Times" on the cover of his new book.
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I live in all those California tensions @TheRestHistory was talking about. Glorious weather this morning. The wooded hills that ring the valley have not yet started to burn for the summer. There is a drought but we have water for today... Image
Heading into the office I need to run the familiar gauntlet of homelessness. The pandemic adds the strange iconography of medical masks as part of the normal shopping carts, feces and beer cans... Image
Because I'm a pastor, and have Jesus' story of Lazarus and the rich man haunting me I can't push it aside as nuisance or social problem. There are people living in and bringing the filth. Image
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How does the conscious realization of our assumptive embrace of a Christian ethic alongside skepticism about the underlying metaphysical and historical truth claims impact the ability to embrace the ethic moving forward? This seems the moment many are in.
.@jordanbpeterson called it "living as if God exists" but that sort of LARPING might begin to feel a bit nerdy "less than" like dressing up to go to a movie. This is what happens when you can't get a real date because you're living in your mother's basement.
Is all that remains a sort of aesthetic resistance then to Nietzsche? Will we quietly resort to a Nazi naturalism without the swastikas when nobody is looking or caring? I think this is part of the fear.
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Watch the politicized, media frenzy around any tough issue. The assumption is that political pressure plus money will produce "a solution". It might be poverty, racism, anything that can be categorized as "oppression"
The narrative itself demands "a solution" be found so once someone stakes political capital on it the narrative drives the stagecraft. War on drugs, war on poverty, war on racism... Wars, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing.
Now at the anniversary of George Floyd we see the same thing. We're just setting up more rage down the line. It's like trying to use a fire hose to battle erosion. "Look how clean the hillside looks". You've just seeded the next round of rage.
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