The Catholic Church has been taking a terrible beating in the press for years now over everything ranging from sex-abuse scandals to the condom controversy. Atheist ideolouges, secular humanists to the left, rad-trads and Protestant conspiracy theorists to the right – the Vatican is the source of multipule problems from radically different ideological starting points.
Many point out that the Church has survived persecutions in the past, and will continue to triumphantly do so into the future. I’m not so sure. For today the Church, with her pro-life message and her comprehensive vision of man, is one of the major institutions standing in the way of the full implementation of a new vision for the 21st century.
I am not a ‘conspiracy theorist’ – there is no need to attribute to hidden conspiracy, what is openly stated by world leaders. In 1995, at a meeting of the “State of the World Forum” attened by several world leaders, the concept of the “20/80” society was introduced and dicussed. What does it mean?
It means that, because of our advanced technology, the prospects of fully automated workplaces on the horizon, and other advances in every scientific field, 80% of the world’s population will become economically redundant.
Whether one buys into the theory or not – I think the percentage may be a bit high, personally – the tendency towards this kind of society is certainly observable. And it is also undeniable that the attendees of the “State of the World” forum believe it is their mission to save humanity: it says so on their website. Since they have taken up this cross upon their backs, who knows what they might be willing to suggest, or even do, in the interests of saving us all?
Enter the Church, who says ‘no’ to abortion or sterilization as a means of population control, ‘no’ to a pure neo-liberal market ideology, ‘no’ to trans-humanist fantasies, and especially ‘no’ to the idea that Zbigniew Brzezinski concocted to keep the 80% pacified – so-called ‘tittytainment’, which is not meant to convey a sexual image but rather that of a sleepy, unaware baby, blissfully feeding before falling asleep.
The idea is that, having nothing to do, we can be kept occupied by all sorts of mind-numbing entertainment and adequate supplies of food, presumably fast food on which to gorge ourselves.
Again, I must stress, even if the details and the particulars of this scenario turn out to be untrue, the tendencies are still in place to make something like it a reality in the near future, and these tendencies collide head-on with what the Church teaches about the dignity of man. It seems that only one can prevail in the 21st century, the culture and ethos of life, or, ‘tittytainment’. If we really are about to enter a period where far fewer people will be necessary to maintain the economy, major adjustments in how we live and what we do will be necessary. What comprehensive vision of man will guide such adjustments?
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