OUR FUTURE:

Hijacked by the Devil

by Timothy J Cullen

" There is nothing wrong with your [computer]. Do not attempt to adjust... We are now controlling the transmission, we control the horizontal and the vertical."

(trailer, The Outer Limits, 1963) Just when I believed I had little more to say...

Recently (31 Dec 2018) the Remnant published an essay of mine optimistically titled "Tomorrow Belongs to You" aimed at younger readers and writers of what I believe to be the most important voice of authentic Catholicism—"Tradition"—in English. Owing to the recent hijacking of my computer by the "Do No Evil" (HAH!) internet Goliath Google, I realize that I still have more to say than I believed a short time ago; quite a bit more, in fact.

Unless and until authentic Catholics master pertinent computer and internet technical knowledge, there exists a clear and present danger that the true Catholic voice will be silenced or relegated to oblivion for all practical purposes. The enemies of authentic Catholicism, of nation-states, of traditional thinkers of any stripe, be it with respect to biologically normal sexuality, race realism, societal structure, economics favoring subsidiarity rather than highly centralized globalism, family formation—the list goes on and on—are determined to seize the internet, the most powerful communication and information gathering tool available. They will succeed unless and until we and our posterity make a concerted effort to counter their machinations.

Government and regulatory bodies on all levels, higher and even elementary education, mass media and entertainment...

all these are firmly in the hands of the active enemies of Catholicism. These enemies, both within and without the Church, are determined to ensure that the authentically Catholic remnant remains small and if possible smaller. While it is impossible to eliminate true Catholicism, it is well within the realm of possibility to reduce it to a religion without an influential presence in world affairs, a possibility that 60 years ago would have been considered unimaginable. It is no longer unimaginable to consider that 60 years hence, authentic, traditional Catholicism will be for all practical purposes irrelevant in world affairs.

Granted: authentic, traditional Catholicism is the only means of human salvation with respect to eternal life. That simple fact must remain foremost in one’s thoughts. Nevertheless, we as authentic Catholics know that it incumbent upon us not simply to save our own souls but to evangelize for the salvation of others, to wit, the ignorant at the very least. Without a public voice, a voice with outreach beyond our own community, the authentic traditional Catholics of the future will find themselves muted (by their enemies) outside a very limited audience reachable by technologically outdated means.

Yes, one hopes some of the young will wish to study Catholic theology, history, art, music and other "liberal arts" fields, but to no small extent these can be studied at home or in a small academy; the university might better be considered as a place to study STEM material, given that as of the beginning of 2019A.D., subjectively speaking, it appears that authentic, traditional Catholics are grossly underrepresented in these ever-morevital fields of study and work; if Catholic culture and civilization are to regain prominence, this cannot continue.

The "religious war" of Catholicism is in large measure internecine, pitting those who wish that the Church return to Faith and practice long since defined against infiltrators and usurpers whose "Catholicism" is at best that of Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez1 and at worst an anti-Catholicism that is based on Marx but more on the satanic speculations of Antonio Gramsci2.

This latter has proven enormously successful in its erosion of Catholic (and thus Western) culture and civilization.

Now that its latter-day disciples wield overweening power in nearly all aspects of civil society, it seems to this writer that it is incumbent upon authentic Catholics young and old to recognize this reality and mobilize themselves to combat it.

One may be "credentialed" as an expert on Catholic history, art, music, literature or what have you, but the dissemination of this knowledge to anything approaching a wide audience is deficient: period! What is desperately needed in our community is authentic, traditional Catholics who are educated and trained to master presentand- future-day technology and employ it to evangelize and educate while doing battle in the cultural, civilizational and societal Crusade spearheaded by The Remnant.

This writer was enraged by the hijacking of his computer, but a tech wiz he isn’t.

Nonetheless, "prolonged analysis" (by a geez whose tech skills are, shall we say, limited) finally led to a solution. I abandoned my Firefox browser (I’ve wanted to since they fired their founder over the heterosexual marriage issue, but...) and installed Brave, thus recovering my original, pre-hijack options.

Erudite though one may be, if one wishes to create a greater authentic, traditional Catholic presence on the world-wideweb, one had best know how do to so, then organize one’s presence to maximum effect. Today, one does so largely at the mercy of Goliath (YouTube, Paypal, etc.); and does so at their sufferance.This state of affairs cannot continue, given the high probability that these transnational behemoths will insist upon conformity with their worldview or risk expulsion and a casting into the virtual outer darkness. If and when that occurs, the authentic, traditional Catholic community will certainly be isolated but perhaps

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Guti%C3%A9rrez

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci "disappeared" if we do not have among us persons educated and trained to do combat, both in the virtual world and that of flesh and blood.

Those among us who are now dogs rather old to learn new tricks with respect to the virtual world will increasingly depend upon those better prepared to keep the message coming and spread it as possible into the virtual world; we ourselves are limited in this respect.

Our Jewish brethren, however, are not. No, no, they have been proactive and dedicated to expressing their worldview, although that is more true of "ethnic" (little or not-at-all religiously observant) Jewish folk, which is to say "secular materialist" folk convinced their highly abstract version of the secular "Messiah" is (as always) just over the horizon but soon to arrive. If it were to come down to who is best prepared to spread such a message, authentic, traditional Catholics would likely not be in a position to rebut such nonsense in any effective manner, as is obvious even today.

The saying "the best defense is a good offense" has been and is well understood by the enemies of the Catholic Faith and what was once in great and worldwide measure the Catholic Church. Said enemies have adopted every imaginable means to drive authentic, traditional Catholicism into obscurity, thus rendering the whole of Catholic-derived Western culture and civilization an historical footnote.

This lesson should by now be flashing stroboscopically before your eyes. We are horribly behind in terms of evangelizing the greater and greater number of pagans who sit in seats of power. We have been outsmarted in worldly terms. It’s that simple. No use in questioning it, because as this writer continues to learn to his growing dismay, technologically-speaking, we’re way behind.

Yes, if we observe the Sacraments, we have the promise of Paradise and, truly, what more can one ask?

And yet...And yet...

We may tire of being manipulated, reviled, the butt of presumptuous and demeaning jokes, unable to compete on a technologically even playing field in the secular world. We may decide to see our young trained and educated in worldly trades and professions that make them— and by default us—the technological equals of those who wish to bury us in a global and virtual obscurity.

In all matters save the Faith, we live in an uncertain social situation in what was once our own territory. Pride may goeth before a fall, but to totally renounce it has its dangers, at least on the secular level. One does not wish posterity to view one as a coward or an ignoramus, but to avoid that, one must act now, within the God-given intellectual capacity gifted us. If we are not up to the task, well, we have our Faith upon which to fall back, but inevitably it will be a Faith that we keep to ourselves, assuming technological advances don’t eventually cause a nearly certain and inevitable repression that makes the authentic Catholic Faith almost entirely a personal matter with parishes worshiping in private homes that have a priest hole3 handy. Adapt or withdraw is already the order of the day. The non-tech-savvy almost certainly have an unenviable future going forward, secularly speaking.

Crudely put, no argument, but facts are facts, ladies and gentlemen, and the fact is either we tech-up or begin searching for a wholesaler of Chuck-the-Glom masks that will proudly express our inner Luddite while our posterity is transformed into serfs and lumpen, whose reward will only be earned in the hereafter. Worse than damnation? Absolutely not. A consolation of sorts, and a worthy one, but...

If, God willing, I live long enough to know my grandchildren as adolescents, will they be able to find authentic, traditional Catholic teaching—theological and social—on whatever electronic gadget is then the principal information gathering tool? Will I be seen by them as a lovable relic but a relic all the same, given to strange ideas from a distant and irrelevant past? Will our local parish church bear any real resemblance to what Grandpa knew as Catholic? Will Grandpa die unshriven and in a state not of Grace but of resignation because the True Faith might only be found far from his home?

I pray that this not be so, but the future depends less and less upon me and more and more upon our young.They must remain and grow into steadfastness in the

3 Johnson, Ben, "Priests Holes", https://www.

historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/ Priests-Holes/. N.B. Highly recommended reading!

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Faith, but like the Jewish scholars of old, they must also learn a trade. Like it or not, they must be in the world even as they are not of it; to do otherwise is a marginalizing withdrawal from the personal and professional apostolate of the present and future.

The secular materialist hijackers of the worldwide web and the civil societies grown from Catholicism will not relent in their conviction and mission that Catholicism must be destroyed, ultimately impossible though this is. Does this mean they should be able to do their damndest to try without meeting resistance? One hopes not.

Study! Learn! Struggle!

Pray as well, receive the Sacraments, but if you the young choose a secular life, this old man begs you to learn technology to ensure an authentic and traditional Catholicism a permanent presence in the virtual world that so strongly influences the real.

Satan has learned to hijack the present and future means of communication and smiles as he sees the people of God routed and confused, struggling to keep up with technology beyond the grasp of the uninitiated and untrained. If he is not engaged by the faithful, your world and that of your posterity will be a deep vale of tears indeed. The culture and civilization created and sustained by Catholicism is on the border of an abyss unthinkable to pre-Vatican II Catholics. We wish to believe we have done all within our power to restore authentic Catholicism to the Church, but our wishes have not proven to be horses, so to speak, and while optimism may be in order, we are still fighting a holding action at best, and without a cadre of trained technological crusaders, in worldly terms we will almost certainly increasingly lose ground.

Old and tired though I may be, I have no wish to cede a millimeter more and will fight to the limits of my admittedly limited technological ability. I hope and pray that our younger faithful will heed this call to action. ■