Let’s thank Jeremy for pointing our latimes.com article.

What Jesus provides in his Parables is Wisdom, that is “I take you nearly there, you draw the conclusions, and the conclusions, if mind&heart are sound, will be right”.

This is the spirit of Sermon on the Mount. So is this it? No, not yet, and even the author of the article (Jack Hitt?) got it wrong, criticizing Mel Gibson’s movie.

Sometimes (often) it is not enough to “love thy neighbour”. Sometimes this “neighbour” is very nasty, so Jesus has to say “love thy enemy”. But again this may not be enough. Sometimes the powerful gets scared of the meek; he cannot believe the meek hasn’t got an “agenda”, and that this agenda does not jeopardize his power. So, in spite of his being “prudent as a serpent”, unfortunately the “meek as a dove”, to be true to himself, gets “slaughtered like a lamb”.

And this is the Cross that the King-without-sword had to accept.

He did not look for it, but there was no other manly way to affirm his Kingship.

of course, to me, the ultimate anarchism has nothing to do with ‘government’ whatsoever, and by its very nature doesn’t fit into any socio-political philosophies. as soon as you start trying to cram it in somewhere it loses its wu wei.

You are missing The All between after and means

like this article you linked is interesting enough, but its language is so obtuse. theories upon theories. it becomes divorced from everyday reality. like consider this one simple question asked by the interviewer:

Whose job is it to construct the programmatic?

I mean, i know it’s all about the context, but like, i dont know. this just loses me. its so impersonal, so bloodless

With your recent interest in Foucault, you might also be interested in the emerging post-anarchism(s) which attempts to marry post-modernism/post-structuralism and classical anarchist theory