VILE NEW WORLD

Afilonius Rex, Madrid, 17th October 2024

“I was a fool and what i’ve seen has made me two fools.”

Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet

Friends, Europeans, and fellow citizens, it’s time that we all spoke out against wrongdoing, criminality, and impunity. It’s time we took a stand against injustice wherever we find it. And it’s time to say that enough is enough.

And that will not be a path of roses, good grace, and brotherly and sisterly love.

In this vile new world, to speak out against genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, war crimes, and human rights abuses is now a revolutionary act.

In this vile new world, to rail against amorality, disinhibition, and degeneracy is the work of dissidents.

In this vile new world, to be vehemently opposed to the sins that cry out to heaven is racist, even antisemitic, even when amongst those who do so, you’ll find The Pope, Pedro Sánchez, Simon Harris, António Guterres, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, King Abdullah II, Gustavo Petro, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Cyril Ramaphosa, Alexander De Croo, Emmanuel Macron, Shehbaz Sharif, Mia Mottley, Wang Yi, Sergey Lavrov, Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi, Mohamad Hasan, and others.

In this vile new world, we are being bullied into believing that wrong is right, that killing is caring, and that children are inevitable victims.

And it’s all for the common good, for the sake of unity, and in favour of divine vested interests.

In this vile new world, we witness the degeneracy of those who think it’s acceptable and even fun to celebrate death, dismemberment and destruction.

In this vile new world, we are seeing the return to the horrendous ignorance and brutality of my country, right or wrong, my way or the highway, and do what I say, not what I do.

In this vile new world, we are in danger of losing our collective moral compass, our sense of what is right, and acquiring a disdain for the respect of people and lives.

In this vile new world, we are led by liars, chancers and grifters. We fail to understand why electing good people is much more important than electing clever yet unscrupulous thugs and freaks. We fail to understand the importance of the human and ethical dimensions, and we fail to live up to the task of taking care of the world and the people in it.

In this vile new world, we must create beacons of hope, light and guidance. We need to be able to reach out to the victims and offer hope for the repressed and dignity for everyone. We shouldn’t impose the vile natures of some of us onto innocent men, women and children.

In this vile new world, we have to firmly state that enough is enough and that we are done with rogues. We must remove the guilty men and women from any power and educate everyone on how to behave like an ethical, involved and empathic citizen of the world, in which each of us can have our own opinions, interpretations, and views.

In this vile new world, the United Nations is more necessary than ever. Real democracy and respect for all Human Rights is more essential than ever. It’s also important to recognise that honesty, rigour, and decency in politics are more necessary than ever.

I want to conclude with a thought from a good friend.

If you go out of your way to harm or kill children or even support such things, in that case, you are a disgusting, amoral and criminal psychopathic bastard. Worse, even than a filthy paedophile. And nothing else about you matters. Not your religion, not your ideology, not your party, not your nationality, not your support, not your ethnicity or culture, not even your preferred cuisine… Nothing!

Thanks for reading!

Afilonius Rex, Madrid, 17th October 2024