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Religion without the promise of an afterlife is a problem for justice
“This prospect of a life after death has always been connected in the Christian sphere of ideas with the expectations of a transhistorical act of balancing pain and suffering”
—Sloterdijk in 'Rage and Time'
“This prospect of a life after death has always been connected in the Christian sphere of ideas with the expectations of a transhistorical act of balancing pain and suffering”
—Sloterdijk in 'Rage and Time'
Without ultimate justice in the hereafter—and in the absence of contingent justice here in this life—there is what Sloterdijk calls "the infinity of unanswered complaint"
https://www.amazon.com/Rage-Time-Psychopolitical-Investigation-Insurrections-dp-0231145233/dp/0231145233/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593714559&linkCode=ll1&tag=shtwitter-20&linkId=c345126c303f26c6a38eb766dd6b252c&language=en_US
https://www.amazon.com/Rage-Time-Psychopolitical-Investigation-Insurrections-dp-0231145233/dp/0231145233/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593714559&linkCode=ll1&tag=shtwitter-20&linkId=c345126c303f26c6a38eb766dd6b252c&language=en_US
The notion that "the past is fundamentally always unjust” is a kind of inverse Salafism
On a different note, this line from Sloterdijk is interestingly put:
"It is not surprising that the strongest social-revolutionary impulses always emanated from those activists who spoke in the name of the masses but never forgot their own ambitions to climb the social ladder"
"It is not surprising that the strongest social-revolutionary impulses always emanated from those activists who spoke in the name of the masses but never forgot their own ambitions to climb the social ladder"
The rise of this new woke elite isn't just about ideology. It's also about power—a counter-elite, previously shut off from cultural dominance, hoping to replace those at the top. Not to say they're entirely conscious of this but it's a good example of ideology in service of power
