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My article on Peter Sloterdijk
In the latest issue of Commonweal (July/August 2021), I have an article on the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. It concludes with a somewhat extended meditation—or at least the foreshadowing of a meditation—on the relation between the history of Christendom and the process of secularization. I shall be expanding upon that topic in a longer article here in a week or two (assuming the jury duty to which I have just been summoned does not delay it).
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“The ultimate result, if Christians can free themselves from the myth of a lost golden age, may be something wilder and stranger than we can at present conceive, at once more primitive and more sophisticated, more anarchic in some ways and more orderly in others. ”
I am curious if you see any specific (if early) examples of this “wilder and stranger” future.
My delight is fixated on "jury duty." I pity the judge and jury and especially, dear Lord, the executioner. You shouldn't let on about anything. Let civics take its course and take the rare opportunity to observe and wrassle our poor comédie humaine.