The Missionaries

At, not the absolute pinnacle of THE Church’s Culture-power, that would be somewhere in the Dark Ages, but still punching at a very decent level in the global-brain-washing stakes, the firstfirst, intrepid Catholic Missionaries arrived in the NT.NT - Austrian Jesuits .   At this juncture, we encounter a plot-split in our story:

 

1.  - the immense power of the THE Church (backed by governments) on one hand,, pulling theTHE levers in the background

2.  - the frontline actors - some missionary dudes, possibly sexually-confused, who’ve sworn a vow to poverty, chastity, obedience - in return for food, board, good health care.care

I want to keep an eye on the first one, whilst delvingexploring intoa few characters from the second.  MSC tradition demands that its order-members serve 2-years - with at least 12 months at a grass-roots mission posting before moving onto the more relaxing works of Our Lord.  These postings were in the furthest-flung corners of the earth - as such, a sharp contrast to the cushy cosplay world of the higher-ups - but it isit's in these communities where the nitty-gritty work of expanding global-mind-control took place. So let’s take a look …

 

Golden rule for research: put yourself in someone else’s shoes - if youhave wantany tointerest understandin understanding the situation.  In this story we have:

• The missionaries’ shoes,shoes; good sturdy ones, right out there on the frontiers of western civilization,civilization - living with the people they’re trying to convert,convert - partially removed from the power wielding reachreaches of their superiors.superiors - fully-removed from their perception of Reality

• The no-shoes shoes of the Originals.Originals 

Firstly, to begin with the second one, if people from 50-60k years into some dystopian future  (or robots/aliens/hybrids/what-have-yous, if peeps are extinct)extinct, which they almost certainly will be) were to suddenly appear & assume control, how would i handle it? 

 

Not great, i imagine.  Depends.

 

Especially ifIf they told me everything that was of value, my way of life, my skills, knowledge … that was now all meaningless … useless Here’... here’s some drugs to help you spiral … & oh, btw, we usedused-up that culture-time to fuck up the planet with pollution. Sorry.

 

It’s this cultural time-warp that sucked Australia’s original residents into its vortex.   Like a lot of world-altering events, it wasn't a big-bang in the beginning - it was a soft-bang  - not some explosive event - the opposite - quiet - not unobserved, but less-observed.

 

Soft-bang’bang’s still become seismic in effect - just ask Covid - but it’s the slow-rising tidal wave that envelops you -... frog-in-boiling-waterslowly, stylesurely, …you hardly know it's happening until it's too late.

 

Such was the case with the appearance of MSC aliensAliens from the Everwhen in the Top End.