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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12837 Post contents: Mr. Sabin, it would seem, is desperately clinging to the radical idea of salvation of the species via the social and economic contract which, once shorn of “narcissistic aspects of individualism”, cannot help but result in the “enrichment” of “individual relationships” and a “return to the dynamic Republic we once had”. And it gets better: “The idea of America is what has stunned the world… America…will always exist because it is not a place as much as it is an idea.” Indeed, as was Rome - and what a stunning idea it is; an idea and experiment so stunningly revolutionary that it is the first of its kind to derive its authority not from God, upon Whom all authority rests, but - from the authority of all that is true and good - “We the people”. And we have the audacity to then ask the “Creator” mentioned in our Declaration of Independence (the ecumenical, pluralistic and indifferent universal god of liberty, fraternity and equality) to “bless America” when the true God of all nations and governments has been told to take a hike - after all, Christendom, thank you very much, had its chance and was found wanting. So rise up all ye laborers who yearn to be free, for if you wish to keep apace with the amazing wonders of globalism, one must not surrender to the will of “leaders who neither lead nor care a whit about the individual”; our work, we are told, begins “within the authentic circle of our acquaintances.” Let us convert our neighbors to the new religion; the religion of unfettered “Capitalism....the mano a mano version of it, the trans-lingual language of transaction that places a complex array of individual realities into a forum of mutual benefit is a powerful tool in empowering the individual and sustaining the conversation that once made this Republic the envy of the world.” Music to the ears of every true Austrian schooled Libertarian. Let’s listen, rather, to the voice of wisdom and truth - the collective “we” of supreme authority alluded to by Mr. Warning and the voice Merrs. Coulombe and Richert know all too well: “But, on the contrary, by ignoring the laws governing human nature and by breaking the bounds within which they operate, the human person is lead, not toward progress, but towards death. This, nevertheless, is what they want to do with human society; they dream of changing its natural and traditional foundations; they dream of a Future City built on different principles, and they [the Sillonists] dare to proclaim these more fruitful and more beneficial than the principles upon which the present Christian City rests. No, Venerable Brethren, We must repeat with the utmost energy in these times of social and intellectual anarchy when everyone takes it upon himself to teach as a teacher and lawmaker - the City cannot be built otherwise than as God has built it; society cannot be setup unless the Church lays the foundations and supervises the work; no, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is: it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City. It has only to be set up and restored continually against the unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants. Omnia instaurare in Christo.” (Pope St. Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910) Without this truth in front of us, the discussion of a viable empire or of a nation state divorced from this divine reality is, really, for naught - for both are doomed to failure and even extinction. “Let us get back to basics.” Agreed; our work then begins with the conversion of the nation, one soul at a time (and we do not need the blessings of the present and all too fallible Vatican hierarchy, lost in its own ecumenical meaninglessness, to commence and to join in this great work). Truth, you see, never changes. Vivo Christo Rey! Sent at: 2009 01 07