“We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man.” – Fr. Gregory Hesse
So, I suppose everyone’s all worked into a tizzy over the forthcoming “excommunications” of the SSPX clergy. It would be enough to send someone into a fit of melancholy, absent the understanding that Robert Prevost, Tucho Fernandez, and their friends CANNOT excommunicate anyone from the real Catholic Church.
That’s something one cannot do from the mere capacity of ecclesiastical hijackers of the Church. The best they can hope to do is kick you out of the gay club they’ve erected, writ large, in Vatican City. I, for one, have no problem with such an eviction.
Nevertheless, perhaps this recent episode of “Revenge of the Anti-Church” offers us another opportunity to review the state of the world, what with all of its fake rulers.
If you read my book, Caesar Vacantism, then you know my detestation of modern “authority figures” who often possess no genuine claim to such a title. The premise of the book was that governmental figures, “healthcare care” experts, academic leaders, and various other tyrant-bureaucrats pretend they possess authority when they in fact do not. They may as well slap on a t-shirt reading “authority” and pretend it signifies something.
Hence, my assertion that most authority positions, the many “Caesars” of the world, are vacant (or destroyed).
I shall now take this a step further to examine other modest sources of authority: business leadership, landlordship, and even parents. We might not go as far as to say these are (or have become) fake authorities, but many who assume these positions are mediocre or use their power to make others miserable. Let’s discover why some of them are shooting for a cold place in Hell, given their crummy job performance lately.
Antagonistic Business Owners
The same fellows (business owners) who trip all over themselves to announce with tremendous enthusiasm “the customer is always right” would have no trouble throwing the same customers into a wood chipper if it were economical. Pretend all they want, most owners/managers view their customers less like individuals with value preferences, but more like cultivable “pay piggies.”
This dynamic also applies much more to the poor souls stuck working for a supermajority of businesses at large, medium, or small firms.
I hope this is not a novel assertion for my readers, but I am obliged to inform you that most American business owners are a bunch of bastards. It’s probably just as bad in most other industrialized countries, especially since the Jewish oligarchs turned the screws on everybody with the COVID lockdown measures. As usual, desperate times and black swan events always reveal one’s true colors.
Yes, business owners are authority figures insofar as they govern and steward the flow of capital and services throughout society. Some have more influence than others.
There are countless examples of how modern entrepreneurs act as if they possess no souls and will do anything for a profit, but I’d like to highlight one I just heard about the other day.
North Texas Property Owners Hate Marian Mural
This example shows us what happens when fickle business owners cave into the asinine dictates of their masters, the dreaded “property managers.”
In North Texas, the owners of La Esquinita Panaderia y Taqueria will have to remove a beautiful mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe because the owners of the strip mall won’t allow it. The Taqueria owners, who sound like they won’t muster much resistance, will have to erase all the talented and hard work of the mural artist.
This is despite the objective artistic quality (which can be objective, by the way) and piety reflected in the mural. It also works splendidly to attract Hispanic Catholics who commonly patronize such restaurants and love the Blessed Virgin.
Each of us can surmise (with little effort) why something like this would happen. The property owners, who are just as addicted to hating God as they are to earning a profit, almost certainly played the “no religious images allowed” card even though it makes no sense from a business perspective.
Would anybody really take offense to a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Texas? Moreover, wouldn’t that catch people’s eyes and attract more patrons, generating greater profits? Doesn’t a damn property owner want its tenant business owners to enjoy success so that they don’t lose able rent payers?
Yet, here we are again. Neither love of Jesus and Mary, nor a simple desire to achieve business success crosses the minds of typical property/business owners anymore. Here, we can distinguish between tyrannical property managers and cowardly business owners, but both have their way of ruining society. However, it’s hard to fathom this unless you’re old enough (and alert enough) to have noticed how worse this has gotten decade after decade.
Airline Karens & Masking
Did you do any airline travel during the 2020 Scamdemic? Airline patrons may have noticed something interesting about mask-wearing enforcement. The TSA staff, notorious as they are in every American airport, were NOT at all focused on anyone passing through terminals with/without facemasks.
No, it was the Karen flight attendants who threatened to kick folks off airlines if they boarded without sufficient diaper coverage. There were no cops, no intimidating armed security guards, and no managers. The responsibility for face-panty enforcement seemed to fall exclusively to the relatively low-paid, middle-age-ish, white liberal ladies. I saw this myself when I traveled to a large airport.
Why does this happen like that?
Because the same major companies that lobbied for government oversight pretend to be terrified that the state will punish them somehow for not enforcing its social-engineering rituals. The same holds true for DEI, sexual harassment Gestapo rules, and “tolerance” of the sodomite community. I’ll explain a little more about businesses influencing and creating government bureaucracy in the next section.
The Bigger the Business, The Worse It Gets
Last, but not least, don’t forget all the other wonderful iron triangles, industrial complexes, and business-government schemes, the ones that depend on congressional legislation along with plenty of contractors, subcontractors, and other bureaucrats. When you make it really big, you need the federal government as a silent partner or co-grifter to maintain or expand any further.
That’s how they did it with the Pure Food & Drug Act (1906), which gave us the FDA and USDA as useless (but encumbering) food regulators. The mainstream history textbooks tell you that Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, led to public outcry against meat packers and food manufacturers, contributing to that legislation.
The authentic historical narrative, however, explains how large meat-packing companies banded together to lobby the state for regulations that would eliminate their smaller competitors. So, if some smart-mark communist ever complains to you about needing regulations to rein in “big businesses,” you can tell him who invented those laws.
It wasn’t just for food manufacturing alone either. Oil, steel, railroads, cars, and several other industries all did likewise during the “Progressive Era.” Ever since then, we cannot trust businesses.
By the way, has the quality of our food gotten better or worse since the Pure Food & Drug Act? Wasn’t it about five years after it when Procter & Gamble saturated the world with the first revolting seed oil products?
Next, we’ll visit one of my least favorite aspects of modern business: slumlords disguised as landlords.
Landlords: A Special Breed of Rotten Business Owners
How many people “like” their landlords? How many would say they find them anything better than bean-counting, money-grubbing, Judeo-cultural property brokers? Below are a few ways the slumlord industry will drive you nuts.
- Increasing rent without fixing broken appliances or amenities
- Not possessing a physical location or even a phone number to call for emergencies
- Forcing you to purchase useless “renter’s insurance”
- Eager to adjudicate the most petty discrepancies, yet completely unable to address the schizophrenic, drug-addicted, ever hollering, heavy-metal listening neighbors
- Many areas suffer under rental companies that possess a near monopoly of their local market
- . . . and several other frustrations
Then again, it’s difficult to even classify these firms or institutions as genuine landlords. Whatever passes for landlordship today has nothing to do with being lords of the land as it once did. That would imply a certain noblesse oblige, where the wealthier aristocratic landowners took it upon themselves to lead, protect, and care for their subjects or tenants.
Members of the modern landlord facade do not deserve the “lord” title unless we consider them warlords who rule their “tenants” with an iron fist, collecting their pittance, while governing from mansions 500 miles from the property. No wonder everyone’s a Marxist nowadays. With business owners (capitalists) like this, how can one NOT wish for their bourgeois destruction (to put it as charitably as possible)?
At any rate, what is a landlord? Is it different now from the classical understanding of the role?
In the old days (the Middle Ages, particularly), a landlord was literally a “lord” of the land. They lived on it, cultivated it, kept custody of it, knew the tenants well, and coexisted with them. They could match names with faces, send birthday greetings, attend the same churches, and ensure safety from invaders.
When does that ever happen nowadays? You’d be fortunate if your apartment complex manager installed some useless security gate to keep out the hoods.
Again, almost all modern landlordship has transformed into firms “managing” properties for unreasonable, heavily inflated fees rather than “lording” them as noble guardians.
The contrast between old-time landlords versus new ones is much like the difference between an aristocracy and an oligarchy. The former cooperates with and governs benevolently over the plebeians, whereas the latter would just as soon vaporize them if the cost-benefit calculations justified it.
Also, most American landlords seem to be either Jews or Petit-Jews (WASPY white folks who carry out a quasi-Jewish business scheme). By the way, you’ll know you’re dealing with a glorified slumlord if your company is owned by some sort of “holding company.” Many of them avow “Judeo-Protestant” values, have no problem charging an arm and a leg, and will sock it to you with no mercy if you violate their petty rules.
Some of them have curly sideburns, whereas others (the Petit-Jews) merely mimic them.
Furthermore, I don’t know about you, but I’d rather take my chances under the tyranny of an ancient warlord than a modern landlord. The former, if provoked, may try to kill you, steal your wife, and plunder your possessions. The latter performs these ills, directly or indirectly, in conjunction with the global ZOG, who ruin society far faster and more effectively than all the Genghis Khans combined.
Most landlords are really just holding companies that you have to contact via some AI phone system. Good luck ever talking to the owner. Medieval serfs had a better chance of getting an audience with a king.
The same, by the way, goes for most car insurance dealers. Have you noticed they always put the State Farm agents in different cities? It’s all part of this horrible trend of business leaders distancing themselves from the lowest base of their clientele.
Perhaps this makes them like kings, who are traditionally inaccessible. Maybe this is what Marx meant by “alienation.” It’s a shame he was just a shill for Jewish owners himself. He could have been much more effective at analyzing these matters. Oh well.
Let’s move on to another category of authorities: moms and dads.
Lazy Parents
“Parents will render an account for all the sins of their children.” -St. Alphonsus Liguori
Although child-rearing is no simple task in the 21st century, today’s parents are lazy and do not fulfill their obligation to help their children flourish. This goes well beyond the dreaded decision to permit them to operate cell phones, interact with secular children, or attend certain schools. The greatest shortcoming of today’s parents, including some traditionalists, involves their dereliction of duty in helping their young ones discern a state of life.
There are laudable exceptions to this rule, but such a paltry few only reinforce that it is a rule rather than an iron law.
Yes, it is true parents should not dominate a child’s vocational selection, but most completely shirk their responsibility to help them identify good spouses or suitable religious orders. Instead, they permit their children total freedom as latchkey kids regarding every critical decision during adolescence and early adulthood. We might say that this childhood liberty is every bit as pernicious for the soul as the so-called “religious liberty,” and for similar reasons.
Children now face the daunting task of having to DIY everything in their lives, well before reaching mature cognitive capacity. This holds true for selecting careers, finding housing (since inter-generational households are suddenly verboten for some reason), and beyond.
Catholics, of course, know the worst among these pertains to choosing one’s state of life. The saints even warn of stories of poor souls who missed a religious call, only to marry a wretch, commit a thousand grave sins, and kill themselves out of despair. This was a semi-regular theme in the past, whereas now it’s become all too prevalent. Sandbagging parents garner most of the blame, according to the Apostle, who likens them to non-believers.
As a result of latchkey parenting, it is no surprise that the overwhelming preponderance of young adults, since at least the 1980s, have made abysmal decisions via their own matchmaking. I wrote an article on the concept of semi-arranged marriages, which complemented an entire book chapter (in Caesar Vacantism) on the necessity of outbreeding the losers (pagans, Jews, etc.) if Catholicism has any chance of reinvigorating its ranks.
Some people understand the breeding part (at the simplest, reproductive level), but ignore the obvious implications and responsibilities of having large families. We must apply those two concepts (having children and raising them) in unison. This is not just my opinion, but that of eminent theologians, like St. John Chrysostom:
“When your son is grown up, before he enters upon warfare, or any other course of life, consider of his marriage. And if he sees that you will soon take a bride for him, and that the time intervening will be short, he will be able to endure the flame patiently.”
Therefore, if you only pump out children, which anyone can do, yet neglect all preparation for their adult vocations, then Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who compares such behavior to rabbits, wins the day. How can we allow something that awful to happen?
Do Media Figures Count as Authorities?
God help us if they do.
The media, including all the alternative figures, along with all its professed “thought leadership” is yet another spectacular absurdity. Just the very concept is ridiculous at face value. What is a thought leader? Is this someone who, like a drum major, would lead little thoughts around on some kind of arm-swinging, pensive march? This neologism is about as inane as “public health figures.”
At any rate, lately, I’ve expressed irritation with most of the “Leo bad” pundits out there, those who produce everyday content covering every transient burp or fat emanating from the non-venerable antipope.
My qualm with them doesn’t stem from them being altogether wrong, but because they’ve developed a racket from it. It wouldn’t matter if circumstances got any better or worse with Robert Prevost, the “Leo bad” media wizards would still rake together some pointless tabloid nonsense for the sake of keeping the “clicks” churning. The machine MUST continue irrespective of whether there’s anything worthwhile to report (and on many days/weeks, there isn’t).
What’s worse? Many of the “Leo Bad” beat writers never recognize the full scope of the problem. The dead giveaway is the fact that they still call him “Leo” rather than antipope.
I think it was no more than TradCatKnight and I who launched the “a word” to describe Prevost right off the bat. Everyone else, including the nonstop-current-events analysts, played the “wait and see” “sit and stare” game.
They were glacial to the punch, but now, all of them, slow as they always are, “command” a web presence throughout Catholic Internet Land. Rather than experience envy over their success, I prefer to focus on what most Catholics will miss if they limit their research to the standard fare of second-rate, repetitive “Leo bad, Trump good” bilge from the Catholic right. I’d like readers to notice these pundits’ blind spots, shortcomings, omissions, and logical inconsistencies.
“Hey, what do Catholic media personalities have to do with lawful authority? They’re just keyboard warriors. I have nothing to fear.”
Of course, so-called thought leaders may not represent official authority, but they have a certain stealthy way of masquerading as such. After all, we’re fond of referring to the mainstream media as the “fourth branch of government,” so I think it’s decent judgment to conclude that the thought leaders wield a certain crypto authority. If so, then we must remain vigilant not only against the Deep State and Anti-Church, but with the media figures as well.
Ignore this issue at your peril because it is not enough to say “you are what you eat” or “you are the sum of your five closest compatriots.” Nowadays, most Catholics imbibe media so much that the neural plasticity in their brains starts to mold to accommodate the narratives they absorb every day. Hence why it is so essential to listen only to those who reject Vatican II, understand the Jewish Question, avoid secular politics (as much as possible), and never succumb to any Internet cults of personality.
What Comes Next? The Stupid Panda Virus?
Finally, we await the newest tortures from our upper-crust “authority figures” who seek to detonate the global economy, proliferate at least three wars on every continent, and possibly unleash yet another fake pandemic.
Many of us earned a wake-up call on this topic during the contrived Corona-doom fiasco. Those who did not reflect on the absurdity of “expert-rulers” may get another chance to answer the call soon, that is, if there is anything to this ridiculous Hantavirus, all the rage among the usual suspects.
So, if this becomes the next massive, life-changing, super psy-op, ala COVID-19, then we should inventory how we might respond. Ask some of the following questions.
- Will I wear face panties again if I’m told by some petty tyrant?
- Will I allow the fear of losing my employment determine my decision over whether to rebel against yet another mass hysteria?
- If, when it finishes, will I forget it happened within three months?
- How much will peer pressure determine my response to unlawful orders from illegitimate authority?
- Do I have a firm grasp on what St. Thomas Aquinas teaches about disobedience to unjust laws?
Please examine these questions with tremendous care before it becomes time to make active decisions.
Conclusion – Beg God for Better Leaders
Authority and hierarchy are essential if we are to relish any semblance of social cohesion. Even the bizarre notion of anarcho-capitalism (which I mentioned in my last article) depends on some degree of voluntary authority.
This applies to every institution. The military must have some organization of generals, junior officers, and NCOs, and those men must have obedience from junior enlisted, or all operations will devolve into chaos. The same applies to a manufacturing environment (my background), medical services, trade guilds, retail stores, sports teams, and so forth.
I must remind readers of the importance of praying to the Queen of Heaven, who reigneth with Jesus, Our King, forever in splendor. Our Lord loves when we go to His Blessed Mother for everything we need, especially in these latter days where temporal rulers and superiors have failed or sabotaged us.
Pray Mary’s Rosary every day (all 15 decades), rich with your most dire petitions, for She is one sovereign who will triumph soon. It costs us nothing to offer fealty and love toward Her. Moreover, She is our only hope should we wish to withstand our personal judgments and live with Jesus for all eternity.
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