iambarr | December 11, 2008
“the paradigms of apocalypse continue to lie under our ways of making sense of the world. thus, for example, the great systems of western philosophy – such as christianity or marxism – make sense of the world by imagining a future in which the world is fundamentally different, in which our world has ended forever.”
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iambarr | November 26, 2008
the apocalyptic revelation at the heart of the tragic has to do with a sense that no God or gods are looking down on the world to see that justice is done, or that, if there are gods, they are profoundly careless, indifferent, even sadistic.
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