Donald T***p just lately named himself a king. His cult followers rejoiced and his Republican sycophants saved their normal silence. What if he weren’t only a king however a MAD king?
We all know he’s mad within the sense of indignant and stuffed with rage and resentment, and it’s his rage and resentment that appeals to many citizens who really feel ignored and badly handled over the past a long time. And lots of have been by a capitalist rip-off that has persistently destroyed unions and saved working wages down whereas rewarding CEO’s and hedge managers and others hundreds of instances over.
However what if his insanity isn’t just about revenge and resentment but additionally MAD within the sense of psychotic and out of his thoughts and narcissistic and patriarchal to the purpose of “fatalistic self-hatred.” (The phrase of Adrienne Wealthy which she applies to patriarchy itself.) Does America now haven’t only a king however a MAD king?
Such a Mad king would, for instance, declare that Ukraine began the struggle with Russia (though Russia invaded Ukraine). And he would facet with Putin and Russia towards Ukraine and Europe and towards NATO which has helped hold the peace in Europe for 80 years.
Such a king would buddy up with dictators envious of democratic Europe, corresponding to Putin and Viktor Orbán, whom he honors and emulates. And though 82% of People (together with a majority of Republicans and others who elected him) don’t belief Putin.
Such a king would finish all environmental protections and lift taxes on all common residents with the intention to decrease taxes for all those that sit and need to sit down on gold bathrooms. He would decide to killing the Earth by ever extra drilling of fossil fuels whereas taking billions of {dollars} from fossil gas firms for his political functions. On this means he may unfold his “fatalistic self-hatred” so far as the eyes can see across the Earth. Such a Mad king would flip a serious political occasion right into a bastion for necrophilia.
How to reply to such a Mad king? First, manage and protest, particularly with all Republican congress folks. Telephone them. Demand city halls. Hold phoning them. Inform them bluntly what the Mad King’s choices are doing to you and your group.
Take a look at summaries of Undertaking 2025, corresponding to mine in my e book, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ. That means you understand what’s going on in all this confusion and shock and awe, blitzkrieg, technique to create chaos, confusion and battle. And what his purpose is.
Keep grounded spiritually. Learn the information however not overly a lot. Additionally care for your self. Stay and breathe and pray and meditate and apply kindness and laughter and get outside and skim the mystics and proceed to develop the mystic in you.
Additionally, discover allies. Discover a group on-line or in individual or each. Refill on the By way of Positiva like a camel fills up at its watering gap earlier than crossing the desert and By way of Negativa. Bear in mind: Biophilia trumps necrophilia.
See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society.
And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifs for the Peoples of the Earth.
And Fox, Authentic Blessing.
See Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, Jen Lustig, Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion.
Banner picture: Loopy Trump. Picture by IoSonoUnaFotoCamera on Flickr.
Queries for Contemplation
So what about it? Do you’re feeling you’re dwelling in a land of a Mad king? What are you and your allies and group doing about it?
Really useful Studying
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so typically used to unfold management and concern. Nevertheless, given right this moment’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for analyzing the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox gives a brand new theology of evil that essentially modifications the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anybody single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the which means and apply of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the long run that guarantees private, social, and world therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the way in which towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Nicely price our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each spiritual and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient via which we study to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the reward of an excellent and simply Creator.
“A watershed theological work that gives a standard floor for spiritual seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Follow.
“I’m studying Liberating Items for the Individuals of the Earth by Matt Fox. He’s one which fills my coronary heart and thoughts for brand new life regardless of a lot that’s violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang.
Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a complete new path for Christianity—a path that’s in truth very historic and really grounded in Jewish considering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is commonly uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed means.
“Authentic Blessing makes accessible to the Christian world and to the human group a radical treatment for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these could have originated.” –Thomas Berry, writer, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story
Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion
By Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jen Listug
Within the midst of worldwide hearth, earthquake and flood – as species are going extinct day-after-day and nationwide and world economies totter – the planet doesn’t want one other church or faith. What it wants is a brand new Order, grounded within the Knowledge traditions of each East and West, together with science and indigenous. An Order of the Sacred Earth united in a single sacred vow: “I promise to be the perfect lover and defender of the Earth that I might be.”
Co-authored by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Berit Listug, with a ahead by David Korten, this assortment of essays by 21 non secular visionaries together with Brian Swimme, Mirabai Starr, Theodore Richards, and Kristal Parks marks the founding of the varied and inclusive Order of the Sacred Earth, a group now evolving around the globe.
“The Order of the Sacred Earth not solely calls us residence to our true nature as Earth, but additionally gives us invaluable steerage and firm on the way in which.” ~~ Joanna Macy, environmental activist and writer of Lively Hope.
