Unqualified Requiem

If the reader has yet to make the acquaintance of Mencius Moldbug, he is most strongly encouraged to do so.An excellent directory of the Mysterious Monarchist's work can be found here.
The reader must be warned of Mr.Moldbug's unfortunate tendency to equate the most liberal sect of the Christian faith in any given generation with the traditions of that faith,itself.The Christian believer will, rather, see that the system of thought which Mencius identifies with Christianity, and which has lately become that which he calls Universalism,is,instead that which the Church names Heresy.Pius the tenth, in his encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis of 1907 warned of the dangers of this Modernism,"synthesis of all heresies".The century that followed has certainly justified his warnings.
Warnings which Mencius Moldbug echoes and amplifies.He has an Unparalleled talent translating to us our own world with the eyes of our ancestors;That is, showing us the modern world as it actually is.
Today,he mourns the passing of a man,who like himself,was a computer programmer: Steven Paul Jobs,who died at 56 years of age,yesterday on October 5, 2011.

"And yet - there is a God in this world. There is right, at least, and wrong. In everything. In code. In a toy. And this is our special torture: as the planet rots, as fools rule and hyenas feast, as nations lie prostrate, churches decompose, and the Devil with a knife owns London, Paris, New York after dark, fell in our hairy hands the real work of a real King, an Able-man, Ken-ning - who served God, or right at least, and could bend small armies to obey. And make - a toy. So near we are to salvation; so infinitely far away. Rest in peace, Steve."
Indeed.