Tyranny for Dummies: Three How-To Manuals

'And if you have read [Lord of the World], read it again—and ask yourself, are you sure you know whose side Pope Francis is on?' I know I'm not on his side!

From Crisis

By Jonathan David Carson

The rise of tyrannical governments in the world has been scandalously welcomed by Pope Francis and the Vatican.

“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
—World Economic Forum 

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
—Aldous Huxley

While it is doubtful that we’ll be happy after Klaus Schwab takes from us everything we own, the World Economic Forum here reveals that Brave New World is a how-to manual for Herr Schwab, not a warning about threats to our freedom. 1984 serves as a backup plan in case Brave New World does not work, as it won’t. After all, no one can build a “happy” society without God or a “population of slaves” who “love their servitude” to man, not God, which is what the World Economic Forum is trying to build—or at least a society that makes the World Economic Forum “happy” or a “population of slaves” that the World Economic Forum would “love” having in “servitude.”

More prescient than even Brave New World (1932) and 1984 (1949) is Lord of the World (1907) by Robert Hugh Benson, which, by the way, places the Apocalypse right about now—in the early decades of the 21st century. Unfortunately, it too has become an edition of Tyranny for Dummies, the version preferred by the Deep International State’s beachhead in the Vatican, the Woke Deep Church.

In the introduction to the Christian Classics edition of Lord of the World, Mark Bosco, S.J., relates Pope Francis’ recommendation of Benson’s Catholic condemnation of secular humanism:

In January 2015, as part of the pope’s in-flight interview from Manila to Rome, he referred to the “ideological colonization” of international family planning agencies and national governments that impose population control as a condition of development aid.

“I advise you to read it,” said Pope Francis, who hobnobs with ideological colonizers and often slanders Catholics of Benson’s ilk. Why would he recommend it?

Writing in Crisis, Joseph Pearce praises “the novel’s perennial relevance” as a “cautionary vision of the future” that “the present in which we find ourselves” is becoming. He cites then-Cardinal Ratzinger in 1992, who quotes Pope Benedict XV: 

The coming of a world state is longed for, by all the worst and most distorted elements…. In it no acknowledgement would be made of the authority of a father over his children, or of God over human society. If these ideas are put into practice, there will inevitably follow a reign of unheard-of terror.

But Pope Francis attacks “the worst and most distorted elements” that long for the coming of this “world state” with a hundredth of the vehemence with which he attacks traditional Catholics, if he attacks these evil elements at all. And under his leadership, the Church has done little or nothing to forestall the “reign of unheard-of terror” that “will inevitably” follow the victory of the Deep International State.

Benson perfectly captured the attitude of today’s woke ruling class, which, like Pope Francis, is convinced that our standard of living is unsustainably high, but not theirs. In the novel, Oliver Brand, Member of Parliament and soon-to-be major figure in the world Masonic government, tells his wife that his constituents should “not bother the Government.” They are “pig-headed and selfish; they are like children who cry for food ten minutes before dinner-time: it is bound to come if they will wait a little.”

“And you will tell them so?” asks his wife.

“That they are pig-headed? Certainly.”

Brand called Catholicism that “hateful thing that had so long restrained the euthanasia movement with all its splendid mercy,” and he would soon take part in the world-wide extermination of its adherents. Unfortunately, Catholicism has done little recently to restrain euthanasia, giving the ideological colonizers a little more time and a little more power; and the extermination of the Church and the rest of the “pig-headed” will soon come to pass.

Benson’s prescience also fails him in another way. He sees Masonry taking over the world but making no inroads in the Church until almost the End. Discussing Masonry’s influence over the Church smacks of conspiracy theory, and when I pass by its unimpressive temple here and consider its silly theology, such talk seems like conspiracy theory to me too.

To Benson’s imagined future priests, Masonry “seemed…nothing more than a vast philanthropical society,” if rather goofy, just as it may have seemed to many of us and to many of our priests. That influential members of the Church hierarchy could be attracted to Masonry is passing strange, but Murder in the 33rd Degree by Charles Murr seems to tell the truth when it says that Masonry played a role decades ago in the formulation of the new rite of the Mass and the selection of bishops worldwide.

Since Masonry is a secret society, its reach is difficult to gauge. According to a former Mason Grand High Priest, J.W. Taylor, Freemasonry “works quietly and secretly, but penetrates through all the interstices of society in its many relations, and the recipients of its many favors are awed by its grand achievements, but cannot tell whence it came.” What we can say, however, is that the ideology of the ideological colonizers closely resembles Masonry—which Pope Paul VI called the smoke of Satan in the Catholic Church—and that Benson correctly foresaw the triumph of its ideology in Western society at large.  

Also in Crisis, Richard C. Antall suspects that something is not right about Pope Francis’ embrace of Lord of the World:

Pope Benedict XVI recommended this novel, but I think he was probably seeing it as a warning about a New World Order, secular and socialist and post-national. I wonder if Pope Francis saw the same thing in the book. 

Antall speculates that “the Holy Father might have seen himself in the figure of [Benson’s] John XXIV, who changes the Church so forcefully and (alas) autocratically.” Perhaps so. But since Pope Francis has flirted so girlishly with the New World Order oppressing the Church, it also seems that he sees the book, at least subconsciously, as a how-to manual for a tyrannical world government with an established religion that is a secular concourse of woke Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Rastafarianism, Voodoo, Wicca, Amazonian demon-worship, and so on and on; everything but Judaism and authentic Catholicism, with a pope somehow presiding, the only government dominating the only religion the way the Chinese Communist Party dominates the Catholic Church in China today, the pope as vainly vying for control in the world tomorrow as he does in China today. 

This imagined future religion will be a religion with a tame god, tamed by lion-tamers of Davos, a god who makes no demands on his followers except obedience to the principalities, the powers, the world rulers of this present darkness; a god who chooses no people, not Jews, not Christians, because the rulers have chosen themselves to rule and placed every false religion above the Old and New Testaments; an imaginary god who obeys the world rulers who have chosen him—so that in worshipping god, the population of slaves worship their rulers.This imagined future religion will be a religion with a tame god, tamed by lion-tamers of Davos, a god who makes no demands on his followers except obedience to the principalities, the powers, the world rulers of this present darkness.Tweet This

Benson’s greatest prophecy is the necessity of an empty Catholic religion and liturgy to buttress the New World Order. Anglicans (one of whom Benson once was) invented a church that was largely Catholic in form and largely Protestant in substance; now it is hardly Christian at all, at least in America and the United Kingdom. Benson’s Antichrist employs an apostate Catholic priest, Father Francis (!), to transform the traditional Catholic liturgy into a liturgy that worships not God but man, that is, Felsenburgh, the Lord of the World, the Antichrist, and Fr.—now Mr.—Francis employs a swarm of apostate priests to ensure that this Catholic and Masonic in form, Satanic in substance, liturgy is properly celebrated, “the Catholic idea with the supernatural left out.”

At first, the reign of the Antichrist seemed mild: “it was smothering with bolsters instead of wounding.” Then came mobs incited by government propaganda massacring Catholics in the street, the carpet-bombing of Rome, the compulsory “euthanasia” of Catholics, and an armada to wipe out the tiny remnant of the Church in the Holy Land.

First Brave New World, then 1984, always Lord of the World. Such is the way of our pastel fascist rulers: claim the mantel of sixties “peace” and “love” and end with imprisoning your political opponents and waging endless war; proclaim “hate is not a family value” and send Swat teams to the homes of pro-lifers; denounce violence and cut off the breasts of girls you have confused; say you sang “All You Need is Love” and have sex with boys; ask “why can’t we all just get along” and burn down black businesses; label people you disagree with Nazis and drive Jews out of colleges; boast about your desire to feed the poor and make them eat insects; say you love everyone and wish there were fewer people; start with birth control and end with culling the population; say that there is no such thing as sin and commit as much of it as you can; take illicit drugs and think everyone else is crazy; praise the poor and keep them that way; say that you will not judge adulterers and don’t tell them to sin no more; laugh at Christians who seek eternal life and have your body frozen after you die or aspire to upload your mind to the Cloud; claim that only you love the environment and plan your getaway to space; call yourself learned and read books for all the wrong reasons.

Lord of the World, Brave New World, 1984, but first and best Lord of the World. Huxley committed the same religious indifferentism that the ideological colonizers pretend to; most of what Orwell foresaw had already happened in the Soviet Union; Benson didn’t understand what makes airplanes fly, but he knew what makes reason and sanity fly away.

One thing I do agree with Pope Francis about: if you haven’t read Benson’s masterpiece, you should. And if you have read it, read it again—and ask yourself, are you sure you know whose side Pope Francis is on?