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\"mussolini\"<\/a>My essay this week <\/a>at Imaginative Conservative explains why \u201cthe dictatorship of relativism\u201d is \u00a0not a catchphrase, but a reality.<\/p>\n

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The most terrifying aspect to this truth is that the indifferent will cry out for the domination of the superman. Most dictatorships are welcomed for what they offer. In the lack of objective truth and objective morality what the strongman says is true and what the strongman does is good. Suddenly out of the quicksand of relativism salvation comes. A light shines in the darkness. If the dictator cannot bring meaning out of the mindlessness, at least he can bring order out of the chaos. If he cannot bring beauty out of the beastliness, at least he can promise security in the midst of terror. If he cannot bring morality out of the morass at least he can impose law on the lawless.<\/p>\n

This is why, in the end times, \u201cthe abomination of desolation will stand in the holy place.\u201d The antichrist will stand there and he will be worshipped and adored for he will save his people from their relativism. He will promise to deliver them from their self created hell while still allowing them all their decadent pleasures. He will be someone at last to believe in and serve and they will fall at his feet like a million gibbering gollums, longing to be his devotees, his debauchees, his supplicating victims, and his willing slaves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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