Epicurean Constraints

What precisely is it about Vatican II and its Revolution that is so alluring to some people? In what exactly resides its strength?

"as soon as you eat this fruit your eyes will be opened, and you yourselves will be like gods, knowing good and evil…”

The Revolution is the putting into practice of the absolute autonomy of every person along all lines of human activity, without reference to the authority of the Deity. It’s flattering to one’s ego, in a serpentine sort of way.

Sycophantic enticements are merely a start, however; with time these give way on the part of the recruit to habits of action (by repetition), speech (cliches are preferred), and thought (if you must) that serve as shackles indeed – not so much because the constraints are so strong, but because the contrary virtues that would liberate have atrophied.

A great aid is a quarantined sterile, shallow, banal pop-media environment where the progression of Revolutionary faculties can ferment without disruption – and where opposing instincts, talents, and aptitudes are starved and suffocated.

Eat, drink, and be merry, my lads – and tomorrow, play this recording again.