And look at how easily postnational mentality has conquered all. When the Pope talks about the world’s hungry, poor and persecuted, it doesn’t even occur to him to consider any other response than transporting people from one place to another.
The whole planet is subdivided, in this mentality, into vast “bad places” and smallish “good places” (i.e. ghettos and gated communities). Those who are capable and willing to spend their lives chasing after the good places should be assisted. Those who can’t, for whatever reason, uproot themselves as easily are screwed.
The possibility that instead of shuffling people around and dismissing large swatches of Earth as irredeemably bad it might makes sense to help more places become better never even occurs to the Pope. Or to anybody else, it seems.
The Pope could easily contribute to the task of making some of the poverty and hunger-generating places he denounces to become better. He could, for instance, end his campaign against birth control. But that would go against the prevailing “if you don’t like what there is, move!” approach, and this approach has won the day.
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The deity – or demon – who watches over Donald Trump has really “smiled at him”. Since the start of this year – millions of people will suddenly swing to an extreme and support his proposal for a ban of Muslim immigration. Sadly enough, this could be a decisive game changer and put him in the white house. The reports from all over Europe – Germany, Sweden, Finland and so on – of organized gang molestings of girls and young women by mobs of hundreds or even thousands av newly arrived young Muslim men, communicated by modern IT, can’t possibly be denied. The leftist feminists have made a desperate effort to counterattack by claiming: All men everywhere are the same, and even European men commits sex crimes. Yes, of course, but not in large gangs and planned, out in the open street. And so on and on. To try to defend actions that can’t be defended is not a good strategy for anybody.
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Excessive migration to a few small areas, if nothing else, brings with it the obvious problem of just where the heck you are going to house all these people, affordably at least. This is even true within a country- when people are being priced out of an overcrowded London (OK, so gentrification and the presence of the ueber-rich doesn’t help, maybe) yet here, house prices are much more affordable and they seem to be knocking down derelict areas without too much issue… yet it’s easy to see why- there are so few jobs, which are all down in London. (Or the South-East, or the bigger cities.)
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Like Ronald Reagan said, you gotta vote with your feet!
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The Pope could easily contribute to the task of making some of the poverty and hunger-generating places he denounces to become better. He could, for instance, end his campaign against birth control. But that would go against the prevailing “if you don’t like what there is, move!” approach, and this approach has won the day.
The Papacy (as an institution) has never cared about making some of the poverty and hunger generating places better because that would cut into the number of potential converts and members. Further a lack of poverty and hunger generating places means a lack of sainthood generating places for people like Mother Theresa. Any help rendered is strictly secondary to this instrumental goal. Frankly, the institution of the Church, like many huge institutions that command power, cares more about sweeping suffering under the rug when it doesn’t serve its purposes, a fact brought home by the worldwide shuffling of pedophiles from parish to parish.
None of this is actually new.
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“The possibility that instead of shuffling people around and dismissing large swatches of Earth as irredeemably bad it might makes sense to help more places become better never even occurs to the Pope. Or to anybody else, it seems. ”
It’s a kind of horrible herd mentality that makes me glad I’m a loner. Instead of taking advantage of the real possibilities created by global reach, everybodies copying each other in a stultifying and soul crushing race to conformity.
I remember an interview with a Chinese who wanted to emigrate to Europe or the US. He was doing fine by local standards but wanted to be paid in Euros or dollars (And was willing to take a financial hit to make less money but in a more prestigious currency). This is status whoring at its most vulgar.
It’s the same way that the whole damn planet is listening to the same damned Adele song rather that look for something more interesting and individualized…
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All of the Christian churches (denominations?) are in the transport business! First they want as many as possible moved into the world – Earth. Then they want people to go to church often, and sometimes go on pilgrimages. When people die, the church first make sure that they are moved down under ground, 6 feet or so. ~~~ But that is only temporarily storage – the travel doesn’t stop there – the next move is further down to a warmer place, or up in the sky somewhere. Catholics have it more complicated with that Purgatorium or what it is called. It seems to be the Ellis island of Heaven. ~~~ But what puzzles me, is that according to the Book, nobody goes to Heaven yet. First we will have Armageddon, the false Messias, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (the modern version must be a drugged Holy warrior on a Toyota pickup truck firing some russian-made anti-aircraft gun at the people. Then, Jesus will return and rule the World for 1000 years – and first then, after that, will anybody go to Heaven. ~~~ We can only hope that the Christian Heaven isn’t too close to that competing enterprise. that mega-super-playboy mansion bundled together with the generic Acapulco bordello into one, where the most bloodthirsty men of the planet are partying 7/24. You could say “there goes the neighborhood” for less. ~~~ But there seems to be some sort of segregation in Heaven between sheep and goats – a farm animal apartheid. I wasn’t raised on a farm, but my impression is that goats are a lot smarter than sheep. So? Why sacrifice a lot of earthly fun just to become a sheep? Lots of people are turned into sheep every election time.
I could have posted Youtube links with stuff like “Hellbound train” or “Death’s black train is coming” – or something a little cheerier. But I don’t want to spam this blog. But John D. Laudermilk and “Going to Hell on a sled” was tempting…
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This is very profound. Thank you, what a great comment.
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How do you fix a problem like Hackney or Bethnal Green?
Individuals simply fix the problem by leaving if they have managed to earn enough to live where they’d like. This isn’t anything more than aspirationally seeking to live where it’s more pleasant and where everyday life is safer.
That’s essentially what’s going on with this latest Pope — he’s not the kind of person who would live in Hackney or Bethnal Green, even though he makes appropriate pretences about such things.
Maybe Jesus would live in Hackney or Bethnal Green, perhaps even choosing to run a little bread from heaven charity for the unfortunate. But the current Pope?
Not very likely, and certainly not something we’d expect from some heretic post-Vatican II Pope …
[… and although I’m no Catholic, I am a sedevacantist because Vatican II is in fact a heresy, and the popes after Vatican II are as fake as the charity they profess …]
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Exactly. And those who can’t leave are screwed.
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