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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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In Rebellion, Not Retreat Aaron Kheriaty posits a solution for our current totalitarianism.
"Every totalitarian regime first monopolizes what counts as rationality and determines what questions you are allowed to ask. ... The totalitarian method of imposing unity on an entire population: perfect integration through perfect fragmentation."
The solution is "building small-scale institutions of civil society ... that are capable of supplementing the generally beneficial and necessary functions that are missing in the existing structures, and where possible, to use those existing structures, to humanize them."
And then to make so many of these small-scale institutions that "while it could crush any one institution at any time, there would eventually be too many such institutions for the state to target them all simultaneously."
We have our work cut out for us. With prayers for each of you, and for peace. - Meaghen Gonzalez, Editor
"Delphic Sibyl" (detail), Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. HumanSeeHumanDo, Flickr, CC BY 20.
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"Obedience. The most thrilling word in the world; a very thunderclap of a word. Why do these fools fancy that the soul is only free when it disagrees with the common command? Even the mobs who rise to burn and destroy owe all their grandeur and terror, and a sort of authority, not to their anger, but to their agreement. Why should mere disagreement make us feel free?" - G.K. Chesterton
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