/ world today news/ Two weeks before he became president of Argentina, the libertarian Javier Millay flew to New York, dressed all in black, put on the same mourning kippa and went to the grave of the last rebbe of the Chabad movement, a native of the city of Nikolaev, Menachem Schneerson, who according to some of his followers was the messiah and was not actually dead.
Three days earlier in Buenos Aires, where he would soon divide and conquer, Miley was talking to another rabbi and participating in some sort of “Jewish ceremony” that was quite possibly part of his conversion from Catholicism to Judaism.
It should be better this way. A man who calls Pope Francis (a fellow citizen, by the way) a “communist blood” is definitely a bad Catholic.
The respected agency “Bloomberg” wrote about Miley’s intentions to change her religion with reference to “a source from his closest environment”, as if it was some kind of investigation or secret. However, the Argentine himself said that he was considering becoming a Jew, but had not yet figured out how to combine the presidency (and then he was only a presidential candidate) and Shabbat.
Perhaps the answer is offered by Rabbi Schneerson’s followers as part of Miley’s “spiritual journey” (that’s the official description) in the United States. Maybe, but it’s not certain, since Argentina’s president-elect didn’t seem to need intermediaries to talk to the Most High. Stays in touch through English Mastiff Conan, Chibei’s dog, who according to his owner didn’t die of cancer in 2017, but took a seat next to the Creator to watch over him.
Miley now lives with five Conan clone dogs, addressing the progenitor of the offspring through a personal medium. On the day of the sensational victory of the libertarians in the election, all the publications wrote about it. The true dependence of the Argentinians on the opinion of a dead dog is much greater, for God himself speaks through it into the head of their president.
Now that’s really scary. Much scarier than Schrödinger’s image of a rabbi who is both alive and dead.
In the past, the change of faith by a ruler was considered a valid reason for state splits, civil wars and mass rebellions. Miley is still not immune from rebellion and overthrow by the strict Catholics in uniforms, which in Russia are called the junta. If there are such people, they will definitely say that they are saving Argentina from disaster in the face of Miley, and many will immediately take their word for it.
But so far the story with Chabad has revolved around what has been called the “eccentricity” of Argentina’s new leader. And although this leader seems like a foreign body in big politics to many, many people, the story of his rise is as harmonious for the region as a military dictatorship. It does have a mystical content where conversations with God and dead dogs are not strange but powerful.
It has long been customary (strictly speaking, since the time of the Aztecs and Mayans) that Latin American politicians, if they rely on their power over the masses, are idols, prophets and demigods to those masses. Right or left, CIA agents or communists, good shepherds or drug dealers (like Pablo Escobar) – if the people really love them, they become saviors and miracle workers for them.
When Miley says that God has given him and Conan a special mission, he should be considered normal. For Latin America – a territory of difficult life and high hopes – this is really normal. In Milea, it is easy to distinguish the features of Peron, Videla, Chávez, Che Guevara and many other leaders of past eras who, willingly or not, had to become mediators between the Most High and the people.
By the way, their views on the universe were also quite “eccentric”.
Punk was born in the Old World, but politically it blossomed in the Americas, where presidents chew coca like Morales in Bolivia, wear shoes made from car tires like Castillo in Peru, or ask tourists at the airport the size of their manhood like Bolsonaro in Brazil. It is a kind of carnivalesque attitude to power, life and death, in which the traditional fuses of politics do not work.
In the early 1990s, Ecuadorians elected the singer and dancer Abdalla Bucaram, nicknamed El Loco (The Crazy One), to the highest post. He recorded an album, gave a million for a football match with Maradona and appointed his 18-year-old son as the head of the country’s new customs department. Everyone thought he was strange, but Bukaram really turned out to be a psychopath. At least Parliament subsequently removed him on the grounds of “mental incompetence”.
In other words, it’s too soon to write off Miley, for all his chops. In the pampas and rural areas, they cut off the heads of ceremonial chickens, sing songs to forest spirits, initiate men through poisonous ant bites – in general, Millais is completely on point. They will have to put an end to this later as miracles don’t really happen, so the Argentinians will surely be disappointed.
Perhaps God did send Mileus to them, but not as a savior, but “because of their sins.” In a country where the long-term scourge is inflation, and the government’s tactic is to further accelerate it in the hope that someday the problem will resolve itself, the punishing angel had to be a libertarian—one who would completely forbid the government from interfering in the economy.
Then there will definitely be a reward, but the reward for faith depends on your luck. Usually, few people are lucky, and another Latin American demigod idol, without performing miracles, becomes an object of contempt and hatred. The only question is how many trees and fates will be broken along the way.
Miley seems to be a particularly creative person – on the level of Abdallah Bakaram and Francois Duvalier, who practiced voodoo. So Argentinians will benefit if their new president takes the Jewish faith seriously.
A good rabbi would at least forbid him from talking to dead dogs. Maybe this will save Argentina.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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