Van and Lyle, as always, an enlightening discussion, and David Walsh asks a good question, Why haven't we heard a voice like Marva's from the Democrats? (But if there were such a voice, would it be heard? Marva had after all the perfect setting for her call to action, initiated by her otherworldly presence and that Otto-Rank style gonging from the High Tower.) Also, I'm hoping at some point you'll bring Gil Bailie's Violence Revealed into your discussion of totalitarian structures, how they require violence to maintain themselves but arouse it against themselves mimetically. Bailie references Rene Girard's theories of the scapegoat to deepen the theological understanding of the origin of violence. (Forgive me for mentioning authors you probably already know well! But since I haven't heard you mention them yet, I wanted to call them to your attention.)
Van and Lyle, as always, an enlightening discussion, and David Walsh asks a good question, Why haven't we heard a voice like Marva's from the Democrats? (But if there were such a voice, would it be heard? Marva had after all the perfect setting for her call to action, initiated by her otherworldly presence and that Otto-Rank style gonging from the High Tower.) Also, I'm hoping at some point you'll bring Gil Bailie's Violence Revealed into your discussion of totalitarian structures, how they require violence to maintain themselves but arouse it against themselves mimetically. Bailie references Rene Girard's theories of the scapegoat to deepen the theological understanding of the origin of violence. (Forgive me for mentioning authors you probably already know well! But since I haven't heard you mention them yet, I wanted to call them to your attention.)