Thread by @wesyang

I think this is right. A society once guided, driven, and held to account by conscience, subject to spasms of individual and collective frenzy by moral aspiration, striving after perfection, seeking for salvation, scourging itself for its unworthiness....

https://twitter.com/magpiemixture/status/1423931974188679171

However, these impulses have been hijacked by malignant narcissism in a profoundly unholy way

I have to become more knowledgeable about both religion and the culture of narcissism to articulate what is being enacted

It's these philosophical and cultural questions that interest me more than "Will Dems pay a price at the polls?" etc

My father always said that the Japanese will never apologize or feel guilty for wartime atrocities the way Germans did and do because they aren't Christian and the psychology of guilt is simply absent