The world has now witnessed the total transformation of values. Not exactly in the Marxist sense, where the issue is the transformation of labor into material, monetary value, but instead, the precursor of such transformation: the utter usurpation of the value of words, or, the transformation of word meaning. Words are made to apply to that which they were not established to apply.

The most unworthy man in American history, Barry Soetoro, the unidentified human being who has spent nearly a million and a half dollars to legally hide his identity, who is wholly inexperienced as a leader, wholly unaccomplished, and wholly unqualified, has been awarded the Third World’s highest honor, the Nobel Peace Prize. The vapid meets the empty; the void meets the vacuum. Attention and honor mean accomplishment. The parasite is king. The leech is the life. (Does the world pity the black that much?)

Barry already represents an artificial, manipulated identity; but now to crown him with the Nobel Peace Prize is to declare the prize itself worthless.

How shall the world manage such a nullification of meaning? How shall the nations regard nonsense? Awarded for “hope”? Honored for intent. Nothing could be more demoralizing. Nothing could devalue human effort more thoroughly. It is the triumph of pretense.

So what about faith? What about morality? What about ultimate reality?

In the annals of human history the growth of nations, the rise and fall of empires, appear as dependent on the will and prowess of man. The shaping of events seems, to a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or caprice. But in the word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, behind, above, and through all the play and counterplay of human interests and power and passions, the agencies of the all merciful One, silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will.

These words were written by a spiritual woman, Ellen G. White, in 1903. (Education, p.173). One would do well to believe such words, presumably. It is abundantly clear that man does not presently have control over himself, let alone the planet–though leaders seem pathologically fixated on controlling both. Naturally, these leaders are professedly godless, and have no place for the God of the Bible in their thinking. (The god of the Qur’an, of course, is not the God of the Bible.) Most persons who advocate one “god” also advocate one world, and have not mature concept of either.

Nevertheless, shall we expect or “hope” for anything good in the future? When leaders are intend on destroying the accomplishments of the past, and declaring all that has been regarded as good to be bad, what can we legitimately expect?

I say we can expect the loss of freedom, the loss of initiative, the loss of good will, and the loss of all that the world has valued. Yes, the world has valued America above all else. The problem is, the world has not adopted the principles and values of America, but rather envied only the accomplishments. The gold. The world wants the glitter, but not the responsibility and sacrifice required to earn it. The world has coveted the goods, without the labor; the accomplishments without the will. The world’s condemnation of America is nothing but envy. The world is guilty of a great sin–called covetousness. (The Tenth commandment, Exodus 20:17, for those interested in what’s written in stone.)

It is most definitely a false hope to look for a world without poverty. “The poor shall never cease out of the land, ” it says in the Torah (Deuteronomy 15:11), and indeed there is individual obligation to attend to their distress. But institutional mercy? Government coerced charity? Hard to extract the principle from the Bible. Ideally, there was never a central government intended by divine will. The fall into central government was a tragic, national sin. (See, 1 Samuel 12.) Individuals are responsible directly to the Lord for their regard toward the poor, but no government institution was ever commanded to remember the poor.

“For ye have the poor with you always,” as Jesus said, ‘quoting’ the Torah (Mark 14:7). It is, I’d say, presumptuous to think in terms of eliminating poverty, or anything associated with it, like bad weather, draught, or plague. The world bears a terrible curse, according to Genesis 3:17-19.

Government is not a place to look for the will of God, really. The American Constitution merely forbids government to interfere with the biblical faith. Neither the Bible nor the Constitution command government to eliminate poverty, suffering, or the natural tragedies of life and nature. It is an ill wind that blows in the direction of governmental mercy. It is presumption on the highest order. Perhaps it should be called blasphemy.

World leaders, particularly American leaders, have gone clown on us. It is amoral entertainment at this point, in the mawkish guise of good deedism. It is a feigned spiritual fest, a costume party for naked, godless souls. The clowning acts will only increase, though we wonder what acts can follow. Each “Obama” act seems the “first” and “unique” of its kind. That’s the historical advantage of being “the first black president.” So far, it is truly a ‘class’ act, and nothing more–nothing but attempts to undo what has been done. It is wholly reactionary, leech-like, and profoundly parasitical. It is a circus of autolysis. A parade of self-aggrandizement for the purpose of social denigration. Barry and his boys are all about making America equal–to the Third World, the envious, miserable, denigrated Third World. Clowns, Inc. A fine art, really. An ancient mime.

We don’t need to send in the clowns. They’re already here.

from Pantomime.com