ON THE MACHINATION OF FAITH AND POWER
A RITE OF POWER IN A MODERN FARCE
The stage is set, not for a comedy show, but for a farce of power. In a city of vassals and ambitions, where politics is disguised as religion, faith has been stripped of its essence to serve a more earthly cause: domination. The act of veneration to the figure of Charlie Kirk was not a rally, nor a service; it was a rite. A perfectly orchestrated pantomime where every gesture, every word, every amen, was a display of submission. In this theater, truth is not an ideal, but a malleable accessory, and the leader is not a man, but the convergence point of all loyalties.
The shadow of a leader, omnipresent without being there, floats in the air like an invoked spirit, consolidating a devotion that transcends reason. The people do not applaud a person, but the idea of absolute power, a mystical purge against the elites. Politics ceases to be a game of checks and balances to become a crusade, where the opponent is not an ideological rival, but a heretic.
The Three Pillars of the Farce
But every great machination rests on its pillars. And this farce is no exception. The first pillar is **polarization**, the creation of a fundamental schism. The "us vs. them" narrative is not a mistake, but a strategy to manufacture a moral enemy that unifies the masses. By transforming dissent into sin, the possibility of dialogue is eliminated and power is solidified through hatred.
The second pillar is **simplification**. The most complex problems—poverty, inequality, migration—are reduced to a simple battle between light and darkness. This infantilization of discourse is not a failure, but a mechanism of control that nullifies critical thinking.
The third pillar is the **assault on democracy**. The fusion of the sacred with the temporal is not a risk, but the ultimate goal. The separation of Church and State is a weakness, a barrier that the Prince of Shadows must tear down to impose the will of dogma over reason. It is not about a simple government, but a budding theocracy.
Finally, the last great betrayal of this farce is the **instrumentalization of faith**. Religion is stripped of its spiritual authenticity to become a means to a political end. The leader is erected as the new messiah, and loyalty to him becomes more important than loyalty to any doctrine. The cult of personality is not a side effect, but the masterpiece that ensures that criticism is seen not as political dissent, but as a divine affront.
The curtain falls, but the show is not over. The shadows lengthen over an audience that, without knowing it, has renounced its free will in the name of a manufactured salvation.
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