
Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
We face a choice…we’re at a fork in the road with three branches:
Renaissance, Reformation, or Revolution. We stand, in other words, at
the same crossroads we stood at about half a millennium ago, and for
similar reasons.
Consider only the parallels. Then an elite prevailed that had been in
power for well over a millennium. It was an elite that controlled the
mechanisms of bureaucracy, of money, and most importantly, of
information and general culture. It could and did depose kings, and
arrange the fates of nations. It launched – on its pretended divine
authority – massive invasions of the Middle East and a “clash of
civilizations.”It launched one of the bloodiest internal purges in
history against the Cathars. It enforced its own version of political
correctness and hate speech legislation, burning people alive who dared
disagree with it, and hypocritically washing its hands of the deed by
making “the secular authority” perform the executions. Its institutional
claims, in spite of its modern face of gentility, have not changed. Nor
has it repented and disavowed many of those deeds.