Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.
タグ: simon-bolivar, reincarnation, north-korea, media-of-north-korea, media, kim-jong-il, kim-il-sung, hugo-chavez, exhumation, death, bolivarianism

"Christopher Hitchens"の他の名言

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
タグ: comfort, true, will, me
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
タグ: afghanistan, enough, think, war
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
タグ: control, your, enemy, me
I'm terrified of losing my voice.
タグ: voice, losing
I like surprises.
タグ: like
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