Narrative Warfare: The Myth of the Absent Throne

Today's Sabaton History video gets into the United Nations and its very mixed bag results in peacekeeping.

Let me make this clear: I find this institution to be fraudulent from its roots and favor its abolition. That doesn't mean that its record should be shunned, only that they be presented in their full and complete account with no redactions for any reason- something routinely done for political reasons. Those missions not sabotaged from within are often suborned or otherwise corrupted; trafficking is a common problem.

The reason that the UN routinely fails its stated aims is because--like any other attempt at recreating The Tower of Babel--it's premised on the claim that Mankind needs a single sovereign entity to govern it, while simultaneously denying that such a sovereign already exists. Mankind cannot be "conquered" or "united" because it already is under its Creator, God Almighty.

This persistent belief hings on a myth of an empty throne, which is a metaphor for a certain lack of comprehension regarding the very object permanence that we expect our children to grow out of very early in life. The idea is this: if there is no one right there, telling you what to do and punishing you for stepping out of line, then no such power exists.

They perceive the lack of immediate consequence for a lack of consequence, as proof that the throne is empty--that there is no sovereign--and not as the mercy that it is. That lack is there to allow the errant to course-correct before the damage is done, or too great to withstand and recover from, and also to grant the incorrigible enough rope to hang themselves. Then, when the hammer comes down, the sovereign can--and does--say "You did this to you." and the real punishment hits: being forced to confront the reality that you could have prevented this at any time simply by obeying your Father.

And that, folks, is far too much for most to take. That is what breaks them. Not the injury. Not the pain. Not the chronic disease. The reality that they did this to themselves, and like children--like what they are--they refuse to accept that responsibility. They point to the empty throne and claim it's not possible because no one's there, not realizing that no man need sit on a throne to be Man's sovereign. Your father is still there, even when he's not home; your Father is always present, even if you refuse to see Him. Once you see it, you don't need a man on the throne to accept that Man already has a unifying sovereign- and to demand such is heresy and blasphemy.