🕳️ Released Phantom Node 18: Muammar Gaddafi. The King Without a Crown
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17 July 2025
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 18: Muammar Gaddafi. The King Without a Crown
A phantom of a savior. A liberator's image. An emperor of the desert.
He crafted his own state theory—from podiums, stages, and an armored tent.
The "Green Book", the "Jamahiriya", the "New Africa".
But his system was built on loyalty, violence, and propaganda.
His power lay in tribal control.
His weakness — in the absence of real statehood.
After Gaddafi — a shattered society, torn families, a map with no center.
His death did not end his cult. But it unmasked it.
Behind the leader’s figure — fear, lies, a broken identity.
Node Type: Political Phantom
Status: Dead, but the phantom persists
Mechanism: Propaganda, tribal loyalty, anti-Western narrative
Image: Stage figure, messiah dressed in strength
After the Phantom: Awareness of destruction
Essence of the Node
— Cult of personality built on theatricality
— Jamahiriya as a utopian fiction
— System of tribal loyalties and fear— Destruction of Libya as a state
How Did He Become a Phantom?
— Seized power as a "liberator"
— Constructed a pseudo-state based on illusions
— Left no functional legacy after death
— His figure remains divisive, even posthumously
Why Does the Phantom Still Exist?
— Libya is still fragmented
— Weapons, chaos, and discord are his direct legacy
— His image is still used for manipulation
State of the Phantom
— A dead idea fueling live conflicts
— Distorted echo in culture and politics
— An image that can neither be honored nor erased
Collective Reaction
We didn’t have time to understand who he truly was.
Some still mourn. Others curse his name.
But we all live in the world shaped by his fall.
And Libya is still searching for itself.
After the Regime
— Ruins of infrastructure
— Countless tribes, no nation
— Fragments of ideology scattered across the desert
Alt-text:
A pencil portrait of Gaddafi against a wall. His figure is emotionally neutral, nearly frozen, draped in a robe with national ornamentation. Behind him — emptiness. No grandeur, only the shadow of a destructive legacy.
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Anna Pivtorak Kostyuk
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17.07.2025
