an_engel_on_earth [he/him, they/them]
urbanisation without industrialisation has created a social landscape of low-key civil war. The war of all against all finds its ideological correlate not in a Protestant work ethic but in the speculative-entrepreneurial ethic of evangelicals. In a terrible duality of overwork and worklessness, a speculative leap towards prosperity looks like the only escape. And this obtains whether one follows the rigours of evangelical dedication, studying, setting up a microbusiness on credit – or turning to a life of crime. There are plenty of cases where it’s both.
Finally then, evangelical Christianity may be the form that popular ideology takes in a context of precarity, after old utopias have dried up. All that remains is a utopia in the sense that Theodor W Adorno discussed: not as a positive social vision, but as the absence of worldly suffering. Adorno, though, was mistaken: he conflated the secular notion of freedom (liberation of our finite lives) with a religious notion of salvation (liberation from finite life).
It is the former utopianism that is lacking today – that which drags us along and keeps us walking forward. We need not surrender to the grinding banality of capitalist life for the sake of ‘realism’, nor endow tawdry capitalist creeds with the name ‘utopia’. We need only note that the desire for transcendence exists – it is manifest, in both earthly and metaphysical aspects. The worldwide explosion of Pentecostalism should give us pause, and act as an injunction to invent secular transcendence once more.
real tough guy picking on an old lady
And just when I got over a canker sore like a month ago, which are truly the bane of my existence
Yeah this is absolute copium. Back in 2020 there was a poll that had Trump up by 4 points, he ended up winning by 15.
Oh yes for the seasoning I used kind of an all-purpose seasoning salt, it’s got dried carrot, spinach, parsnip, parsley. Don’t know where you live but it’s not fancy at all, I’m sure you can get a similar analog at your local grocery.
Yep tho the aquafaba is not my original idea, I got it off a website can’t remember which lol.
Okay so I fry on medium heat (I have a gas stove with nine settings, I set it at a four) half an onion bulb, diced with some tomato paste to create a flavor base. Let it fry for 10 mins, get a little browning going. For this one I added five cans of kidney beans at once. Let it fry for 5 mins, add some aquafaba from the cans, keep it frying for another 5 mins at medium, then like 10 mins at low (2 in my case). Then you keep going for another 10 mins and also start mashing, adding liquid if needed, I used a potato masher. I had rice cooking in the rice cooker at the same time and I wanted them both to be done at the same time so I may have overcooked the beans a little but they still came out rly good. For the rice I just cooked as you cook it in a rice cooker but just added some tomato paste for the color. And that’s pretty much it!
