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October 10, 2009

Obama: Nobel Opiate for the Statists

 

 

Theories are now beginning to circulate that statist Norwegian elites, confused by the use of their letter Ø by the American “angry Mob" in "Øbama". Sources say the Nordic statists believed it to be a peaceful sign of broadened understanding and  warmth for the tiny, unheard-of Scandinavian clique among the knuckle-draggers in US flyover country, and that somehow Obama had brought this about.

 

Naturally, nothing could have been farther from the truth. The Norwegian statists, long seemingly over-guilted by their contribution to the European exploitation of North America by Leif Erikson (to say nothing of their contribution to the exploitation of Europe by, well, everyone else), were in fact so well-versed in the ivory tower mindset that they were completely cut off from even other liberals living abroad – in this case the US.

 

Had they kept in touch, perhaps they would have known the truth, the dirty, shameful, rubber-to-road reality about Obama’s failure to convert the heathen. Or that things have waxed ever dreadful to the point there now seems underway a  great apostasy of even Biblical proportions – well in motion before the messiah’s “Waco” in Copenhagen last week.

 

Still, we must give the Nobel Prize Committe (which is appointed by a frightfully statist Parliament) credit, if not for its choice of recipients, its choice of timing. October 9th was, after all, Leif Erickson Day in the U.S., which included rather ironically, a Presidential Proclamation noting the day "Liberal Guilt" was born. So I suppose in that sense the circle is now complete.  

 

However, rather tragically for Oslo and certainly for quite a few in Washington for the time being, it seems most Americans in hopelessly unenlightened fashion continue to resist the transformative power of The One. Obama is indeed recognized in much of Western Europe as a man of great wisdom who wishes to impose upon the great unwashed for their own good some of that “redistributive change” though unequal sacrifice and guilt. If only they would take their medicine (and wait in line for it). Instead, the dullards hold on to backward notions of human rights and shun the enlightened Old Knowledge held by the rest of the world, where elites have always ruled the roost and the common people know their place.

 

This idea of self-preservation through a “right” to use firearms to even things up against intruders or a “right” to find life-saving medical treatment  despite age or disability as parts of an overall invented right to self-determination for the lower casts is causing tension around the globe. Tension, I might remind you, is not peace, just as unrest is the opposite of rest. And so for their own good, it is necessary that the hoi polloi rest in peace when they’re told to.

 

This is why the UN throws money and time into fighting modern mythical dragons like anthropogenic global warming and discussing global poverty over champagne with thugs instead of pursuing human rights and causes for which more qualified Nobel Laureates (such as Lech Walesa and Aung San Suu Kyi) have been honored in times past.

 

The difficulty for the statist of course is that the idea of human rights causes tension, tension causes strife, strife causes war, and war is not peace (conflict is only acceptable under terms laid out by conflict theorists; terms which favor the tyrant and dictate terms of peace to the peasant). President Obama was the Nobel Prize Committee’s choice for Peace Prize recipient because he so far by the above and rather painfully true definition has proven to be a man of “peace”. He said he will not “meddle” except in countries like Honduras which resist thugs and as such cause the tension that causes strife, that leads to war, which prevents the peace. Or put another way, Obama’s the man who would also only meddle when 85 Year old Esther Ann of Indianapolis selfishly wants to fight the cancer she was diagnosed with. After all, tension causes strife, strife leads to war, and war is the opposite of peace. Rest in peace, Esther.

 

Since around the time of the American Revolution, the ideas of each human being's unique worth and the resultant values of human rights and liberty have spread, and with them a growing distate for repressive governments and double standards. Expectedly, this has lead to skirmishes here and there involving those who want to save the old, backward ways of despotism and rule by the elite over their miserable masses and the people of the world yearning to be more free. As long as people accepted the knife into their backs without resistance, there was no struggle, but now there is – and certainly one worth having.

 

One can almost hear the collective groan of the Old Worlders even as they dismissed America yesterday by praising an American president who dismisses his own people almost daily:

 

“These Americans are making it bad for everyone who is fighting the good fight to keep their serfs in check. Such a time-honored tradition of the order of rulers and peasants should be preserved as it has worked out quite well for our little clique – or did until our peasants began to see what they were missing and started getting all uppity. We thought Americans were beginning to turn over a new Leif when they voted for høpe and change last November; it now seems reasonable to suppose this will take more time.”   

 

 

Related: Two pieces I wrote for the Henry Jackson Society, one titled, "Global Warming: Questioning the Science, Shredding the Motives" posted at their blog and an artcle titled, "On the Return of the State".

 

 

Posted by Martin at October 10, 2009 02:48 AM

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