An interesting interview of an enigmatic strongman at my own age, when the world still produced interesting autocrats, with their own will, vision, and destiny. Gaddafi himself seems to have been a victim of modernity. The plague of modern liberal democracy, spread at the poison-tipped point of a star-spangled spear, his people deliberately infected, his life taken and his body brutalized by the zombie horde we’ve seen in the gruesome footage. His country experienced its own apocalypse shortly after his death. Now it lies in dust.
Democracy, as I’ve explained to someone recently, is oligarchy via a smoke and mirror stage show. It’s oligarchy hidden by a lie that “the people” control the government. How terrible this lie has been for the world, a variation of the lie underpinning communism, that of “rule by the proletariat”. We vote, so apparently we have nothing to complain about.
