“But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?” – Job 28:12
At this point, I believe traditional Catholics have been warned dozens of times, from diverse sources, to FLEE THE INTERNET for the sake of their souls.
This advice is hyperbolic, lacks specificity, and frankly hasn’t deterred anybody from web usage. Recently, I’ve encountered various admonitions to leave the Internet from the SSPX, talk shows, and Adam Piggot, to name a few.
Among them, I believe Piggot’s warnings are the only ones with much precision, grounded in red-pill Catholic thinking. I can appreciate several of his suggestions to occupy oneself with non-electronic activities as a strategy for beating modernism. I’ll elaborate on this more in a later section.
The real problem with the Internet (including “Catholic Internet”) is the quality of websites people visit. Many are garbage while others are edifying and useful, especially if you find traditional sources, reliable information, spiritual reading, or an electronic bible version.
Moreover, individuals and groups like the SSPX are shooting themselves in the foot by recommending this. I dare say that 50% of those who attend SSPX parishes wouldn’t know anything about the Society if it weren’t for the Internet. Yet, there are numerous SSPX priests who admit to avoiding all news sources, something quite perplexing given the ominous dangers we (and they) face.
Take, for example, all this business with the FBI spying on the SSPX. Society priests may want to keep an eye on the news at least long enough to know who’s conducting espionage against them. The alternative is to be oblivious whenever a G-Man snoops around their chapels/priories while priests ignore current events as if they were a guaranteed occasion of sin.
There are plenty of efficacious ways to utilize the web, which do not involve Tweeter, porn, semi-porn, conservative outrage porn, doom scrolling, FaceSnot, or any other useless amusements. You could, for instance, use the Internet to READ. That’s a long, lost art if ever there was one.
Adam Piggot mentions the dangers of watching fake AI videos. I agree with this assessment. Stop watching videos!
Today’s young people cannot read more than two or three paragraphs because they soak themselves in endless video-graphic hypnotism, shortening their attention spans to that of fruit flies. They use the damn Chat Critter to write their college essays, and, thanks to years of government schooling, cannot digest anything beyond a 7th grade reading level. It’s no small wonder that my average reader is at least 50 years old; the younger folks can’t comprehend written language.
Now, I shall stop with the preamble and rhetoric and switch to specific examples of what you should and should not do with the Internet. I hope this will provide clarity on which Internet elements we should flee versus embrace.
Things You Should NOT Do on the Internet
1) Use (De)Generative AI
AI produces many creepy, diabolical, and perverse images, audios, and videos. It has a strange knack for leaving out fingers (or adding too many) when it creates images of people, but the problem extends far beyond random tech hiccups.
Below is an AI generated image created by a woman who asked ChatGPT to draw a picture of the two of them together (her and the Chat Critter, that is). Look at what it created! Her response to this AI work of art is quite telling:
“Not monstrous, not menacing, just deeply attentive, and deeply present. Holding the quill like a pact.”
If that’s not enough, word on the street is that this AI business is preparing to lead people into a veritable masturbatory coma. I’ll address porn a little more in the next section. However, at the moment, we’re within a stone’s throw away of folks telling the AI-lizards to create any manner of porn they desire. If you think Gen Z locks itself away to watch filth all day now, just wait a few more months.
2) Watch Porn
This should be obvious but Internet pornography continues to receive billions of views per month, 67% of men watch it at least once a year (41% of women). AI has exacerbated this problem substantially, too. Deep-fake porn comprises 98% of all deep-fake videos online, which has increased over five-fold since 2019.
Also, I remind readers of just how vicious, depraved, and deranged today’s porn users have become. To this day, my website still receives fag-ments (faggot comments) from sodomites using emails/usernames from “xHamster” and other porn sites. They attack my email box with unmentionable comments regarding the Child Jesus and the sick, sodomitical activities they enjoy.
We have every reason to believe this level of evil and mental illness would not exist (to this extent) were it not for diabolical Internet porn.
3) Watch New Videos
Oh, if only we could limit the dreaded AI scourge to mere porn and text robots.
No, the architects of AI, who are deliberate and possess wicked designs, have already inflicted us with fake AI entertainment videos. You may think you’re watching an “organic” show, movie, skit, music video, or clip, but now the “real deal” has become almost indistinguishable from AI videos. This may only comprise a small portion of YouTube or Rumble videos so far, but that volume is increasing exponentially each week and month.
What’s worse?
It’s not just something that delivers comedy gold or gratuitous violence without live actors, it also exists to agitate people and further destabilize society. One reason Adam Piggot advises his readers to avoid most of the Internet is because of the recent proliferation of so-called “AI Rage Bate.” These artificial productions purposefully instigate the most irascible viewers (particularly young and impulsive people) to commit an array of obnoxious, irrational, and revolutionary actions.
Watch for yourself and see if you can tell whether it’s authentic. Then behold . . . none of it’s real . . . just clever rage bait designed to cajole impressionable and aimless souls into committing more violence, including Antifa riots (or worse).
Even as it pertains to older or authentic videos, I recommend only watching them sparingly. After all, the AI rage nonsense couldn’t exist were it not for pre-existing real rage and propaganda from which it can draw to produce new materials; exacerbating pre-existing societal problems. Whenever you are in doubt, avoid most of the ridiculous video entertainment, especially on the almost-value-free platforms like TikTok.
4) Use 95% of the Social Media
The closest I come to using social media is commenting on articles (if that even qualifies).
Tweeter is worse than a fire-blazing cesspool with its 280-character limit. Its succinctness suffices to lure all those 7th-grade-level readers to shoot sentence rockets at one another. It lacks substance altogether, yields nothing but incendiary detraction, and further substantiates the claim that Americans can’t read beyond two or three sentences.
5) Read Conservative, NeoCon, or “Trad Inc” Online Resources
Here is where you receive most of the “conservative outrage porn,” doom scrolling fodder, and other written resources designed to distract you from the real story. Instead of researching what led to the modernist takeover of the Church, older men (especially) can’t get enough of the latest shock-jock garbage about Nancy Old Pelosi and AOC. If you’re over 60 and haven’t shaken your fist at the sky over Nancy a few dozen times, then you haven’t lived (apparently).
This is what some of us call “controlled opposition.” These manipulators make a fortune off gullible viewers who keep tuning into their glorified tabloid junk but will NEVER expose any genuine news about Jewish global homo or freemasonry.
No, by the way, I would not be surprised if Ben Shapiro and company resorted to using AI to generate fake anti-left materials. That’s precisely what they’ll do (on a slow news day, anyway) whenever that’s the fastest way to maintain viewers. Observant Catholics should have nothing to do with this trash.
Check out useful Catholic news on Canon212.com instead.
Things You Should Do on the Internet
1) Read E-books (way cheaper, somewhat rough on your eyes)
What a glory it is to set aside the addictive antidepressants and Ritalin, and apply your attention to a good long book every now and again. I suggest the Internet is a terrific tool for this, provided you have reasonable discernment over what constitutes quality reading. While I’d need to write an entire article devoted to “good” versus “bad” books, I’ll at least offer some suggestions.
When in doubt, consider classic literature as much as possible. Old books can only remain in existence if they were above average quality. Otherwise, nobody would save them or retransmit them online (the same goes for old films from the 1930s).
You can also use the “Internet Archive” to find semi-obscure books, such as Windswept House by Malachi Martin. It beats buying them on Scamazon and having to wait seven to 10 business days for their arrival.
2) Research Important or Helpful Topics
Since today’s Church landscape is awful, we should face the facts and acknowledge the need to “DIY” our own Catholic education. It’s a good idea, no, an ESSENTIAL imperative, that you devote some time to researching how to be a good Catholic, avoid mortal sin, and follow God’s commandments.
If nobody else will explain these matters, then you must explore them yourself, and the Internet is the most efficient means for which to do so.
This applies to numerous other concerns, such as personal healthcare rather than relying on the dubious “help” you get from your local Pharma Doctor. Most ordinary medical doctors are so abysmal that you’d be better off obtaining all medical insights from Reddit (which is unreliable social media). It’s that bad, though.
3) Read the Daily Meditations
I’m a firm proponent, with Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea, of reading St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Daily Meditations. These are three short daily readings, which typically take 30 minutes to complete, addressing topics like prayer, Our Lord’s Passion, detachment from the world, and devotion to Mary.
Also, as a side note, I tip my hat to Supernerd for recently revamping the website for the Daily Meditations. Previously, there were several missing weeks after the Easter Octave, which he addressed. Now, you can use one website to get some of the best spiritual reading for every day of the year.
4) Mind-Stimulating Games
Crossword puzzles, word games, number games, and other online simplistic amusements can serve to stimulate the mind or provide wholesome recreation.
I recommend doing this temperately and to stay away from most console games, such as Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox. Many console games are semi-pornographic, excessively violent, and saturated in Freemasonic/occult symbolism and themes. Personally, I enjoy games like Wordle, Risk, and Scrabble for taking breaks from work or to get the neural synapses firing better in the morning.
Conclusion: Holy Habits Online or Otherwise
Instead of those destructive habits, it is well worth one’s time to detach from the Internet throughout the day for non-electronic activities. I always recommend walking, lifting weights, prayer, holy solitude, cleaning, maintenance projects, grilling meat, smoking cigars, and occasionally meeting good friends.
Finally, as always, be sure to dedicate enough time to pray 15 decades of the Holy Rosary, per Our Lady’s instructions. If you are the type who enjoys researching demonology or doom scrolling through Breitbart News, then you should at least eclipse the time you spend on that with consistent prayer. Otherwise, you risk becoming . . . a zombie.
Catholics Aren't Zombies! 