Revenge of the Old Europe
October 13th 2007 05:04
Al Bore has won the ultimate seal of global messianism, so what's in it for us?
There is something marvellously ridiculous about Nobel Peace Prize what with Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat and some North Korean tyrant I can't name getting it but this is the worst of the lot. There was at least a semblance of argument that those awards were for, you know, peace. But, what exactly this pendulous piece of human flesh done for the humanity?
It is not enough for Democratic candidates to routinely aspire and rarely win US presidency. That presidency is only a preparatory course to Messiah-hood when they become some kind of reincarnate jesuses bestowing benedictions on everybody else. Cut short on the anointed eight years to transform the world and you have an automatic messiah in the making (Jimmy Carter). Give them their eight year run, they will take time to become a messaiah but become they will (Bill Clinton). Nowadays, they are not even bothering to run for the Presidency but directly to Messiah-hood (Barak Obama).
Al Gore was ofcourse denied the preparatory course for the Messiah-hood. But that didn't stop him. I wrote a small tribute to Atlas Shrugged down below. There is an incident in the novel where a Budhist hippie champions soya crops as the alternative to America's dietary ills, managing to kill the agricultural sector of the nation in the process. Al Gore is just such a hippie whose crusade from being a joke has suddenly turned deadly serious when things like the ethanol drive are driving food prices up everywhere. It is one thing to endure sillines like banning of the light bulbs but it is another thing again to submit the world to poverty and hunger. In the last decade alone, capitalism has erased hunger and poverty like no other altruistic, liberal program has in the history of the world. What does the liberal brotherhood do in response? Concoct an elaborate scheme, a grand scheme so stultifying in stupidity that it defies description and bring the world down to the knees again.
There is a cultural underside to this too. It shows clearly that European elites are, for all their pretensions to the contrary, stumpy maidens waiting to be included in the American politcal drama. For years, Gore's supporters have held that Bush stole their election from him and Europe was positively indignant about how their president was cheated out of the top job. How can you restore cosmic order and anoint your messiah? Do the next best thing and award him the Nobel Prize. He's too too good for the US presidency, anyway.
It maybe dying but Old Europe has bit back hard.
There is something marvellously ridiculous about Nobel Peace Prize what with Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat and some North Korean tyrant I can't name getting it but this is the worst of the lot. There was at least a semblance of argument that those awards were for, you know, peace. But, what exactly this pendulous piece of human flesh done for the humanity?
It is not enough for Democratic candidates to routinely aspire and rarely win US presidency. That presidency is only a preparatory course to Messiah-hood when they become some kind of reincarnate jesuses bestowing benedictions on everybody else. Cut short on the anointed eight years to transform the world and you have an automatic messiah in the making (Jimmy Carter). Give them their eight year run, they will take time to become a messaiah but become they will (Bill Clinton). Nowadays, they are not even bothering to run for the Presidency but directly to Messiah-hood (Barak Obama).
Al Gore was ofcourse denied the preparatory course for the Messiah-hood. But that didn't stop him. I wrote a small tribute to Atlas Shrugged down below. There is an incident in the novel where a Budhist hippie champions soya crops as the alternative to America's dietary ills, managing to kill the agricultural sector of the nation in the process. Al Gore is just such a hippie whose crusade from being a joke has suddenly turned deadly serious when things like the ethanol drive are driving food prices up everywhere. It is one thing to endure sillines like banning of the light bulbs but it is another thing again to submit the world to poverty and hunger. In the last decade alone, capitalism has erased hunger and poverty like no other altruistic, liberal program has in the history of the world. What does the liberal brotherhood do in response? Concoct an elaborate scheme, a grand scheme so stultifying in stupidity that it defies description and bring the world down to the knees again.
There is a cultural underside to this too. It shows clearly that European elites are, for all their pretensions to the contrary, stumpy maidens waiting to be included in the American politcal drama. For years, Gore's supporters have held that Bush stole their election from him and Europe was positively indignant about how their president was cheated out of the top job. How can you restore cosmic order and anoint your messiah? Do the next best thing and award him the Nobel Prize. He's too too good for the US presidency, anyway.
It maybe dying but Old Europe has bit back hard.
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