A New Western Religion Takes Shape

The West has been busy these last 12 months setting up international institutions, regulations and technologies that legitimize, formalize, and entrench the powers they gained during lockdowns

• Central banks devising protocols for implementing new digital currencies that simplify surveillance of their populations' financial transactions
• vaccine-based ID systems that make tracking individuals across and within countries easier
• CO2 budgets and social credit systems that can be used to adjudicate who is worthy of travel and a reasonable standard of living

The Trinity of Inputs

• To set up a new religion, you first need an appealing ideological story
• Then you need a priesthood
• Finally, you need suitable headquarters for the papacy
• The first two have been easy, but the third is proving a sticking point.
• In the Middle Ages, the prevailing ideology was that everyone was sinful and the devil lurked in us all, a story that led to constant self-loathing and a divided peasantry. The elites of the 21st century are seeking a modern equivalent of the sin stories of the middle ages.

Where the Holy See?

• Local priests need a papacy to prevent them from running off the ideological reservation
• Elites can establish a religious headquarters from which to wield real authority as a means of keeping the local priests in line
• World Health Organization
• Would kill three birds with one stone: it would normalize and rubber-stamp the abuse of emergency health powers during lockdowns; it would automatically select a particular story as the new ideology
• It would cement a new health-based international bureaucracy that could be given power over local health bureaucrats
• Anything'sustainable,' 'ethical,' or'safe' could be corralled under the general 'health' banner

Our Saviours

• The WHO has a fatal flaw when it comes to being the headquarters of a new Western papacy: it covers the whole world and so is co-funded by many governments, some of which have no interest in wokeness and other Western ideologies that divide Western populations.
• While the West can try again later on, the structure of the WHO means that any successful decision can also be subsequently reversed which isn't a recipe for a well-functioning papacy.

The Coming Resurrection?

• NATO, or some similar organization, could soon be robed with the mantle of new ideological papacy and given some direct control over the many small priesthoods inside Western countries
• An overarching health structure promulgating a stream of divisive and disruptive superstitions would first off greatly reduce the productivity of local health providers
• Declines in the health and efficiency of the population won't matter much to politicians who need the ideological clout of a new papacy to cement their positions, but it will matter in the longer run to the strength of their countries

Saving Graces

• The world is slowly moving into military and economic power blocs
• One bloc consisting of China and Russia and another bloc the West
• Even within the Western bloc, those countries and regions that manage to refuse the new papacy will thrive relative to the others, attracting the dynamic, energetic, freedom-seeking elements of populations

 

https://brownstone.org/articles/a-new-western-religion-takes-shape/