Abstaining in deliberate protest does not mean that one does not care about the issues that are themselves at the root of politics and political decisions. Rather it is an expression of caring about those very issues, even caring intensely—so intensely that one refuses to participate in any process that reduces them all to no more than the equivalent of lines in a farce. Deliberately refusing to vote for such a principled reason reflects anything but apathy, in the dominant contemporary sense.
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We are being robbed of our common language.Our shared language is far and away the most important thing we all have in common. Unless we share a language in common, there can be no true commons at all.
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There are two fundamentally different senses of what can be called “land-use.” In one of those senses, to use the land is precisely to exploit it. An altogether different sense of use does not exploit the land, draining it of all its own wealth, but instead cultivates the land, to further enrich it.
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Language has a tendency to flatten itself out through circulation, in which process words gradually lose their power to speak—and in speaking, to let what is be seen.
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What we sorely need is not to "put Christ back in Christmas." What we need is to bring Christmas back to Christ.
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Revolution is return, and return is religion. The reverse also holds true: religion is return, and return is revolution.
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Full acceptance of the everyday overfill of days would require (from re-, plus quaerere, “to ask, to seek)”, not a one-time, once-and-for-all revolution, but a permanent, ever-ongoing one, as it were, an everyday ever again new revolution to match the everyday ever again newness of every new day.
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If we attend carefully to the single meaning that might gather and bind together all three traditional derivations of religion, we might be given to think that religion itself, properly so named, is this: the repetitive practice of return to the divine.
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What is religion, and what might it have to do with revolution, either positively or negatively?
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Nature was once the dimension of the sustaining, overwhelming, and ineluctable. Nature is no longer that dimension, and metaphysical substitutes for nature have proved unreliable. I
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