Ardinghelli turns up the pressure on the Medicis. In 2017, a rabble-rouser called Mike Cernovich dug up one, ancient, sarcastic and uncontextualised tweet by radio host Sam Seder that got Seder terminated from MSNBC; a year later, Cernovich used some of director James Gunn’s most tasteless jokes, nearly a decade old, to get him canned from Disney. We need some historical perspective. Some people don’t seem to know when to keep their thoughts to themselves; others can’t tell the difference between a joke, a faux-pas and hate speech. From 1692-1693, the devil apparently ran wild in Salem, Massachusetts: over 200 people were accused of being witches, 19 were hanged and one man pressed to death beneath rocks. Savonarola’s increasingly hysterical preaching of the Apocalypse was ignored and the people no longer believed him, neither were they afraid, they wanted rid of him. It was not long before he confessed to all the crimes with which he had been charged and agreed that he was indeed a heretic, a traitor, and a charlatan. His fate was sealed. He was soon to repay the Medici for their generosity by becoming their severest and most vocal critic. The Man. Powered by WordPress & WPstart Theme. If they signed the treaty then it was likely that the people would rise up and depose them. This was damnatio memoriae, literally the damnation of memory, and for societies of the ancient world – when honour and good name were paramount – the damnatio was considered a fate worse than death. Savonarola began to preach to the people of Florence of his ideas and philosophy. If they did not then the French would take the city by force. He gained many followers and eventually built up enough support to … The Cultural Revolution might have been carried out by the young but it was launched by a very old man, Mao Tse-tung, and he did it because he had been sidelined by his colleagues in the Communist Party and was frightened of losing his influence. The Vatican in Rome which had never quite known how to deal with Savonarola, indeed at one time they had even appointed him Vicar-General, now firmly turned against him. The “Bonfire of Vanities” seems very similar to what happened in Ephesus in Acts 19, when all the people brought all their scrolls for practicing sorcery and burned them publicly (Acts 19:13-20). Thousands fled the city whilst hundreds of others were burned at the stake for acting against the Will of God. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. There can be no salvation until every last one has been removed and destroyed.”. In early 1498 he was excommunicated by the Pope and barred from preaching. He was later to recant his confession but it was to make no difference. Aware of the growing opposition Savonarola decided to begin another Bonfire of the Vanities with the proclamation: “We must remove those things, those earthly luxuries that turn people from God. His preaching inspired a popular republic and a grand campaign against decadence. Statues, symbols of power and status, were fair game. Later, Lorenzo brings together Botticelli and da Vinci, and Bruno revisits an old foe: his family. Roger Scruton, the philosopher (who has since died), was sacked from a government position after being misrepresented in the New Statesman. Donald Trump called it totalitarian. Much of the desolation was technically voluntary: just as we are invited to confess our privileges today, so the Florentines were encouraged to self-criticise and repent through immolation. Savonarola’s attempt was to establish a “New Jerusalem” in Florence. Once Savonarola made a treaty with Charles to free the city of Florence he became known as a messianic hero. It’s easy to see cancel culture as an attempt by the Left to win a victory on social media, having been beaten at the ballot box. And are we really supposed to believe that conservatives wouldn’t cancel someone if they could?
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