- ... the media ... no longer ... report on the antics of a former community organizer
- who was busy sketching out plans for an illegal war
- SHAMELESSNESS is the quality that Barack Obama's antics ... and Miley Cyrus' antics ... have in common.
Not merely a shamelessness ... but shamelessness as their fundamental attribute.
A shamelessness ... of not being bound by anything at all.
... Obama was once anti-war.
In 2007, he told voters that the president does not have the authority under the Constitution to unilaterally go to war unless
- there is an urgent threat to the United States.
- is to the military prospects of HIS ISLAMIST ALLIES FOR TAKING OVER ANOTHER COUNTRY.
Obama's shamelessness isn't incidental to his actions;
- it's their whole point.
And in a world WITHOUT MORALS OR VALUES, the only thing that counts is POWER AND THE WILL to use it.
... the tawdry spectacles expose the elemental thing that is left behind WHEN ALL VIRTUES AND VALUES FADE AWAY.
Without these things, the human animal becomes just that,
- A REPUGNANT AND IRREDEEMABLE spectacle
- that attracts the like-minded and REPELS EVERYONE ELSE.
Without these virtues, why shouldn't Obama BREAK HIS WORD and get his war on?
... it's only a dilemma IF you have morals.
If you don't, then
- it's NO LONGER A MATTER of
- what the right thing to do is,
- BUT WHETHER YOU CAN DO IT.
Or as Aleister Crowley put it,...
- "DO WHAT THOU WILT shall be THE WHOLE of the Law".
That is the cheerful maxim ... for the drama of reality television.
Its real entertainment product is PEOPLE DOING WHAT THEY WILT and becoming famous for it.
... everything that MTV stands for;
- tacky, desperate for attention and in the real world, pregnant at 16. ... cheerful amorality,
- maintained by invisibly huge amounts of money,
- that tells viewers that THAT THEIR OWN AMORSLITY WILL ...NOT HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
Bill Clinton was our first MTV president.
Barack Obama is our second.
The decline in MTV neatly matches the descent from Clinton to Obama,
- but what unites them is THAT CHEERFUL AMORALITY that can TRIUMPH OVER ANY CRIME.
and like so much of our political and entertainment elites,
- they have been doing it.
Obama has decided to get his war on. Again.
Though REALLY, France and then the UK DECIDED THAT AMERICA SHOULD get its war on.
And to be STRICKLY ACCURATE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar DECIDED AGAIN that their FINANCIAL PUPPETS in the UK and France,
- licking their lips at a taste of their oil-fed sovereign wealth funds,
- even while CUTTING their militaries to be the bone.
Formerly ANTI-WAR France is on its THIRD war in three years.
This will be the SECOND war for its newly elected Socialist government in JUST THIS year.
That's impressive for a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys
- who were supposed to be our role models
- in navigating the subtlety of international diplomacy.
Role models don't hold up too well under fire.
Just ask ... any of the anti-war activists who thought that Obama would be different.
THE MAN WHOSE ONLY CALLING CARD WAS THE PEACE SIGN, is about to launch his SECOND war.
- And if bombing Syria goes well, THERE'S ALWAYS EGYPT.
- THEY might get a few cruise missiles headed their way in Operation Caliphate.
Obama's premature gift of a Nobel Peace Prize has become one of the MORE ABSURD footnotes in his career.
... he seems to be doing his best to leave behind his old anti-war reputation.
Now he can hardly wait for the UN inspectors to finish their job in Syria
- before squatting at a table and nodding CLUELESSLY
- WHILE BEING TOLD WHERE the bombs will fall first.
If hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, as La Rochefoucauld said,
- our elites have decided to dispense with the tribute.
- but the dealers in vice will NOT EVEN BOTHER WITH THE HYPOCRISY.
- then the ... hope and changers no longer feel that they need to bother EVEN MAINTAINING THE APPEARANCE OF VIRTUE.
Last time around, Obama had already begun the Libyan War BEFORE he told the American people.
This time, the Syrian War could begin at any time,
- but will possibly be PRECEDED by the release of a report.
- Or maybe the report will come out later,
- as the man WHO SHOULD BE president IS ACTING LIKE AN EMPEROR,
- and the emperor is naked ....
Alinsky's fourth rule is MAKING THE ENEMY LIVE UP TO HIS OWN CODES.
- BUT WHAT IF THE ENEMY HAS NO RULES, ONLY WILL.
- WHAT IF THE ENEMY HAS NO VALUES AND EXIST ONLY TO BE SEEN.
- Where there are NO VALUES, there can be NO HYPOCRISY.
The VMAs are a calculated spectacle in the same way that Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will was
- and in the same way that the latest Obama speech
- pledging to act unilaterally on his latest plan if Congress does nothing.
- Their theme is the triumph of THE WILL OVER MORALS,
- the power of the individual TO DOMINATE CROWDS through no special virtue EXCEPT DETERMINATION.
Miley Cyrus did what she did BECAUSE SHE COULD.
- The goal was the most priceless commodity of modern culture; ATTENTION.
- In a crowded digital world, the only thing that matters is BEING SEEN.
- It is THE SECRET of his success.
- but that quality of COMPELLING OTHERS to become aware of YOUR existence
- and TO INCORPORATE YOUR existence INTO THEIR reality.
... Obama will go to war BECAUSE HE CAN.
- It isn't even his idea and it isn't a good idea, but THAT DOESN'T MATTER.
- you have to SHOW EVERYONE that you've grown up by getting out there and GETTING YOUR WAR ON.
It's what the audience expects.
For months now, the Washington Post and the New York Times have been URGING Obama to go to war.
France and the UK have been BEATING WAR DRUMS even longer.
Qatar and Turkey have been CRYING FOR WAR BEFORE the last one wrapped up.
Eventually the NAKED emperor HAD TO go out there and give his international fans what THEY wanted.
Obama was TENTATIVE when it came to his first war,
- but he's an old pro at it now.
- It's all in fun
- and it distracts the unemployed people eating soup out of a can from wondering
- IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE EVICTED TOMRROW OR TODAY.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has grown up.- He knows that THE PUBLIC DOESN'T MATTER.
- He knows that CONGRESS DOESN'T MATTER.
- He knows that THERE IS NOTHING BETWEEN HIS WILL and the might and FORTUNES of a nation.
- And HE'S DOING WHAT HE WILL WITH THEM.
He might bomb Syria for a few days, as he's claiming and as he FALSELY claimed of Libya, or a few weeks or a few months.
The military has been CUT TO THE BONE and RETASKED to celebrating gay weddings and green energy,
- but there are enough bombs LEFT OVER to make for some spectacular fireworks
- as the Al Nusra Front and their Free Syrian Army allies make it to Damascus
- TO SLAUGHTER THE LAST CHRISTIANS THERE.
- and THE BURNING OF THE LAST CHURCHES in Syria while the bombs burst overhead will be the performance of a lifetime.
There will be criticism, but as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Benghazi,
- "What difference does it make anyway?"
Without them, THERE IS ONLY POWER AND THE WILL TO USE IT,
- whether it is the power to bomb a nation or take your clothes off.
The only way to PROVE WILL is through ACTION.
The ability TO DO A THING implies A NEED to do it.
- If a thing CAN be done, it MUST be done.
- as the ability to do a thing FORCES YOU to actually go ahead and do it
- TO PROVE YOUR WILL, WITHOUT REGARD TO WETHER YOU WANT to do it OR NOT.
Our society SLEEPWALKS towards these inevitabilities of power WITHOUT EVER ASKING WHO IT WAS THAT DECIDED on their inevitability.
Transformed FROM a society of virtue INTO VICE, we wonder WHY we are slipping INTO TYRANNY AND CORRUPTION of every sort.
RESTRAINT IS A VIRTUE.
With ONLY the VICE of power, the ADDICTION of will, there is NOTHING between us and THOISE WHO WOULD DESTROY US
- but the NAKEDNESS of THEIR power.
Tomorrow, Obama MAY fight Syria.
But the rest of the time,
- HE'S FIGHTING US.