The removal of Gaddafi is limited in its strategic significance, but it is highly symbolic in other ways. Whether or not documentation of the ordeal was intended for public consumption, his rather gruesome demise illustrates graphically to every nation the cost of resistance to the Postmodern Empire. Enemies of Rome were once dragged through the city by the triumphator and jeered by throngs of plebeians before facing death. In our own age, the enemies of democracy and human rights are made to star in productions not unlike the horror-porn so fashionable among anaesthetized American moviegoers. When Gaddafi’s last cameo proved unbearable to watch for the non-depraved, U.S. President and Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama set the record straight on a popular late-night comedy show:
Well, this is somebody who, for 40 years, has terrorized his country and supported terrorism. And he had an opportunity during the Arab spring to finally let loose of his grip on power and to peacefully transition into democracy. We gave him ample opportunity, and he wouldn’t do it. And, obviously, you never like to see anybody come to the kind of end that he did, but I think it obviously sends a strong message around the world to dictators that…people long to be free, and they need to respect the human rights and the universal aspirations of people.
Revolutionary tyranny is enacted on a worldwide scale, and the threat to any power outside of Washington’s orbit is by now quite explicit- from the set of Jay Leno, no less. “The universal aspirations of people” have been divined by the high priests of our policy elite; it is they who will administer the blessings of liberty and equality to the grasping masses. Libyans, too, have a right to insurmountable debt, pornography, shopping malls and hip-hop, whether in Dar-al-Islam or the alluring chaos of the West.
This Garden of Earthly Delights is impossible to maintain, however, without daily rites of sacrifice. Every class of victim performs a special function. Americans sent to Afghanistan and blown apart by IEDs protect “our freedoms”, while on the home front unborn children are slaughtered to affirm individual autonomy and “empowerment”. Our cities are the havens of savages who in rapine and murder appease the cruel gods of the Open Society. And when an independent-minded despot like Gaddafi is executed, we rejoice in the downfall of another villain who temporarily frustrated humanity’s progress toward a more perfect union.
Four days after Gaddafi’s death, the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace released a white paper on international financial reform. The document has gained certain notoriety with its call for a world Authority and the birth of a new global society, a process shown to be already well underway. It speaks of solidarity and subsidiarity, brotherhood and charity, yet not once is there mention of the word sin. Who today would dare speak of such antiquated superstitions? Not the cardinals of the Holy See, but the brutal and bizarre Muammar Gaddafi, who in final agony would identify the nature of Leviathan’s works.
Transgression is virtue in the age of apostasy, and the new religion self-worship. Man ascends as a perverse and bestial god to re-order creation according to his will, a vision manifesting in a kingdom of death. This is the ancient hope and our Brave New World, the Novus Ordo Seclorum. This is sin.
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