September 25, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
Kavanaugh, Tucker Carlson, and the End of America?
Friends,
The unleashed ideological charade surrounding the nomination
of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court continues with energized momentum. Now every few days feminist
fanatics all of a sudden “discover” a new “victim” of sexual abuse committed by
the judge, a victim who cannot at first remember really anything, but whose
memory is miraculously “recovered” after a week or two of intensive
pscyho-therapy administered by tendentious pseudo-scientific practitioners of
what can only be described as a modern (and far less respectable) version of black
magic and after continuous and intensive “counseling” and suggestion by
frenzied #MeToo activist attorneys, intent on shaping the narrative to effect a
defined and discernible political (and cultural) outcome.
And each time a new “victim” suddenly emerges, so too will come
the demands for postponement of a Senate vote on the nomination, a new FBI
investigation, and the refrain in all mock seriousness: “We cannot possibly
proceed until ALL such claims have been thoroughly investigated.”
In other words, at this rate—as newly groomed and coached
women appear, abused supposedly in the first grade by Kavanaugh when he was
just six, maybe because he tickled her underarm “against her will”—as those “new”
women come forward as choreographed by the feminist #MeToo-ers, this process
could well last for—years. That is, until the administration finally gives in,
or, more likely, the Senate Republicans simply throw in the towel. Or, as the
best hope of the Democrats, that the November election will result in a majority
for them in the Senate.
At that point, again miraculously, ALL accusations will
suddenly and abruptly cease, no further victims will appear, and Brett
Kavanaugh, an honorable and upright judge with not a hint of scandal, will have
had his life ruined forever, his reputation besmirched. And with unconscionable
glee and contentment, the feminist movement will move on eagerly to its next
target…whichever man might stand in their
way and in the way of their complete domination of our society, our politics,
and our culture.
The Democratic party leadership, now under the sway of these
zealots, pushes this template, basks and revels in it, boasts of its success
and inevitability, while too many Republican leaders slink away to the “tall
grass,” fearful that someone, somewhere, will whisper those fatal words: “Senator
X (who is, of course, a white male!) is a sexist, is enabling sexual abuse, and is anti-woman!”—or
worse.
In two previous installments in this series [see My
Corner columns for September 19 and 22, 2018: http://boydcatheyreviewofbooks.blogspot.com/2018/09/september-19-2018-my-corner-by.html and http://boydcatheyreviewofbooks.blogspot.com/2018/09/september-22-2018-my-corner-by.html], I have termed this process the recrudescence
of a modern form of witchcraft, with the difference that this is indeed the real thing, that what we are witnessing is a
form of demonic possession, not so much of the traditional theological kind,
but certainly a modern variation thereof.
In the theology and teaching of the Church, demonic possession
exists on several levels, the most famous and noted being possession itself.
The well-known film, “The Exorcist” (1973), presented in Hollywood’s own exaggerated
cinematic and amplified way, brought demonic possession back into the public
eye; that film was indeed based on a real case that occurred several decades
ago, and, despite Hollywoodization, it remains a fascinating topic, as it
reminded skeptics that there is a real history of such unexplained instances in
human history.
As the old Rituale
Romanum, the text utilized for exorcisms, indicates, the cases of demonic
possession are quite rare. However, as I said, there are levels, including
subjection, infestation, and, notably, obsession which incorporates sudden attacks of
irrational and obsessive thoughts, perhaps culminating in a death wish, and
typically influencing dreams and visions.
In our age of widespread unbelief, such terminologies may well
fall on deaf ears, may well be passe’ and unpalatable to modern thinking. But whether
or not one accepts the traditional theological precisions, or if the
consideration be merely based on a close and measured analysis of what is
occurring, employing insights of mass psychology and the understanding of the
power and use of suggestion, the eventual diagnosis and result amount to the
same thing.
“Feminism,” along with “Anti-racism,” is a weaponized cudgel
employed by what we have termed “cultural Marxism” to essentially undermine, dissolve,
and transform Western Christian culture and society. But, in fact, feminism is
antecedent to and predates historically and ideologically all forms of Marxism.
Latter day Marxists have, indeed, included it in their quiver of poisonous
arrows, but for them, it is only one means to an end, and not the end in
itself. For them it is a tactic and a strategy.
Feminism, in fact, as we witness its present operation, is far
more insidious and actually more within the realm of an understanding of
Western religious and social history. Again, as I have stated previously in
these columns, in that sense its typology partakes of defined and discernible
Christian heresy, and as in all heresies, its basis is essentially a rebellion
against God and His created natural order.
Certainly, such a description will find few votaries in
contemporary society. How dare I even mention such “superstition” and
unreality! We are conditioned and trained from early age to accept “science” as
our new god, and scientific explanations (and huge doses of pseudo-science)
have become the deified replacements for traditional religious explanations for
anything smacking of mystery or the unexplained.
But who among rational observers, the as yet uninfected, can
deny what we are witnessing and seeing transpire on our television sets or in
the pages of such virulently feminist publications like The New Yorker, The Washington Post, or The New York Times?
Is this not some form of, at the very least, obsession? Or,
what G. K. Chesterton called “lunacy?” Or, to be more modern and contemporary
about it, the power and use of intense and continued hyper-suggestion and a
kind of nationalized and ideological psycho-therapy, applied society-wide? Are
we not, indeed, witnessing the emergence, full-blown, of an infernal “beast of
inversion,” a total and complete uprooting of the way things have operated and
been for thousands of years, the defiance and denial of Nature and Nature’s
laws, in favor of what I would term demonic demiurges—minions of Evil who will
not cease their machinations until either they have destroyed our culture and
civilization, or, until they themselves are repulsed and destroyed.
There can be no truce with them; there can be no compromise
with them. Their madness drives them onward either to their final noxious
triumph on earth, or until they are driven back into the feculent reaches of Hell,
itself.
Last night [September 24, 2018], as I usually do, I tuned into
the Tucker Carlson Tonight program, which now is about the only program on Fox
News that I can force myself to watch regularly. And for the first thirteen
minutes, Carlson—more than any observer on this topic I have heard—stated the
practical and real issues in the Kavanaugh case in the starkest of terms, but
with absolute and very precise realism. It was a veritable tour de force, and, I
pass on a Youtube version (link below) and urge you to see and hear it, even if
you heard it earlier.
This, in fact, is where we are in our country—on the
precipice, on the edge of succumbing to a very real and severe totalitarianism
that despite the election of Donald Trump in 2016, we stare at squarely in the
face and which literally threatens to take control of our politics, our culture, and
our very lives.
Maybe it is time—maybe beyond time—that we began frequenting
the firing ranges. Maybe that is where we should be headed, and far sooner than
we imagined.
Here is Tucker:
Few besides Dr. Cathey could analyze the current crisis in its real context and nature: the triumph of the therapeutic demonic.
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