The Move Forward’s political agenda of demilitarization, de-monopolization, and decentralization (3D) is thus key to an understanding of what is different in Thai politics.
Category: Spirituality
I am a political pragmatist and for good reason. There is a perfect storm of historical factors that presses a pragmatic political orientation upon us.
It isn’t our sovereignty that AI threatens (since we never have been sovereign); it is our authenticity.
The production of capital is perhaps a necessary condition of work, but a hyper-focus on capital production will miss its sufficient conditions.
The people who have most belonged and identified with Christian institutions have done everything to avoid their guilt.
There is a sudden realization that our narrative understanding of ourselves, perhaps wrongly occupies a central place in our attention.
Respectable Christians is not content with faith in the Risen Christ, not content with the grace and love of Christ: he wants the comfort and justification of being on the side of power and convention.
A.I. is the awakening of the Balrog and our greed for control has put our fate in the balance.
... every “good morning!” needed a response. Every action engendered an obligation...
The irony in my giving this talk in that place, under these circumstances... reaches my heart with a deep and absurd smile. I grieve it, yes. But God's plans are always better than mine.
Raymond Klassen - Ideals and Identities 