Waiting for the ‘Off’!

Paganism didn’t just shrivel and die in the face of a victorious Christianity in 4^th century Rome.  Exhausted as it was, it still required a sequence of state edicts to finally put it out of its misery.  A significant additional element was the upsurge of Christian mobs intent on enforcing the decrees by violence.

But what goes around comes around; and it would seem nowadays that Christianity, and especially the Catholic Church, is facing a similar fate.  Certainly, the mob seems to be already there and primed; it just hasn’t turned to direct violence yet.

The only real difference between mobs is the accident of their motivations, the particular targets that animate them.

Clausewitz, in the process of cataloguing the different human types, speaks of ‘those who are very easily roused, whose feelings blaze up quickly and violently like gunpowder, but do not last.’

Frustrated, angry, unthinking, reactive, and as unconsciously aggregative as those headcases you see milling outside courthouses during high-profile arraignments.  Easily influenceable, too.

Farmed salmon are not naturally red; the colour is artificially created by means of dyes added to their food.  So also with the excitables, who are tuned into all the channels, and draw their nourishment from them; their programming, too.