so as never to err

“we should always be prepared, so as never to err to believe that which I see as white is black, if the hierarchie church defines it thus.” ignatius loyola spiritual exercises “2 + 2 = 5” george orwell so why deny the empirical ( for that “we” you should read “you ) and take a stroll with the eleatics? a fair place to start is by pointing out that loyola is part of that “hierarchie church”…founder of the jesuits and someone with an agenda of defining and defending the church perception of what the final end of humanity is…a teleology that allows the church to take your existence out of the here and now and place it in some future eternity accessed through the church…belief based on loyola’s ( and so the “hierachie” ) assessment of what constitutes error with no room for heretical dissent or independent thought…the website i found the text on ( ignatianspirituality ) carries the caveat “ the spiritual exercises were not meant to be read by an individual but rather led by a retreat director”…a properly “trained” ( read indoctrinated ) representative of the church commissarat to prevent anyone making an erroneous judgement that may lead to a dissent from accepted dogma…”Priests are responsible for the education of children and adolescents, in which quite as much stress is laid on moral as on academic training. They do their utmost to ensure that while children are still at an impressionable age they’re given the right ideas about things, the sort of ideas calculated to preserve the structure of society. If thoroughly absorbed in childhood, these ideas will persist throughout adult life and so contribute greatly to the safety of the state, which is never seriously threatened except by moral defect arising from wrong ideas.” thomas more, utopia p.105 penguin classics edition…tom more and loyola were contemporaries…utopia was written in 1516 ( the spiritual exercises 1522-24 ) and it is possible, if not probable, that they may have heard of/read one another…that passage reflects the alleged ( there is much dispute ) jesuit maxim “give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man”…both highlight the role of the church in sustaining hegemonic culture…despite being a saint, more was not a churchman…he was, however, deep in the hierarchy of the hegemonic culture of tudor england…he became a member of parliament for london in 1510…and was also named under-sheriff of London the same year…he became councillor attendant to henry VIII in 1517…under-secretary of the exchequer in1521…speaker of the house of commons in 1523…and lord chancellor in 1529…all of which shows the danger of being close to power rather than wielding it since more was beheaded in 1535 mostly for refusing to recognize anne boleyn’s children as henry’s true successors… theories of control are well aged…and doubtlessly extend back beyond loyola’s refinements and what i would perceive as more’s satire…not everyone sees it so...both the church and the bolsheviks claimed more...the church canonized more and loyola and more was commemorate on an obelisk by the soviets…the church and the soviets both admired more’s utopia because it placed life in the public sphere…everything from eating to recreation was to take place in public under the eyes of authority and subject to peer pressure…subordinating private thought to that of the group ( groupthink…along with 2=2 + 5 orwell went a long way in illuminating the processes ) and private loyalties to church or state…nothing in more, if taken a s a serious plan for social interaction, that loyola would object to…both would be comfortable with the church as an indoctrinating mechanism ensuring popular subservience to the established order…adventures in utopian sameness have been embarked on any number of times in the recent past…we seem about to board yet another one if donny and his minions have their way…they are deluded…these things never work…they fail…admittedly after millions of “the other” perish from the single-minded bigotry of the perpetrators…but they fail because they miss the point that the resilience ( so far…that is going to be severely stressed soon enough by forces that cannot be resisted by bellowing hubris or ar-15s ) of the human species rests exactly in its diversity…homogeneity is death…they will encounter resistance and no one knows exactly where that will lead…not even mcconnell and the rest of the whores in congress…buckle up…”interesting” hasn’t happened just yet.