The Antisocial Socialist

I think that, while contemporary occidental monotheism discounts the possibility or at least probability of any "major" prophets surfacing these days, they all secretly hope that this assumption is wrong. You won't find any conservative evangelical leaders endorsing even the concept of present-day prophethood, but in secret, away from the cameras, they are all desperately hoping for some pseudo-messiah to rise from the ashes of their lost Christian ontological monopoly to "set things right" and shit. Because they already know they've lost. If you listen to Christian talk radio or whatever, you can really tell that they already know that they've lost. I mean, they are still obnoxious and crazy and whatnot, but they certainly aren't in the same mindset they were a hundred, two hundred years ago. You watch like Pat Robertson or some shit, you can see it in their eyes. This vain desperation, desperately grasping for some sort of redemption, something that will stave off the inevitable extinction of their memetic species. But they have nothing. Nothing at all. So, in a last ditch effort, they look to cracked-out lunatics like Shrub and they secretly think, in their heart of hearts, "this is a man that can bring us back." But they can't say it out loud. Because that would be blasphemous—or at least hysterical. And there is no place for hysterical blasphemy in evanglical Christianity. But that is exactly what they want. They want George Bush, with the mandate of God Himself, to march across the face of the earth and vanquish their assorted enemies.

Thank God that won't happen.