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 first, intrepid Catholic Missionaries arrived in the NT - Austrian Jesuits .   At this juncture, we encounter a plot-split in our story:

 - the immense power of the THE Church (backed by governments), pulling THE leverslevers in the background

 - 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 

I want to keep an eye on the first one, whilst exploring a 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'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 have any interest in understanding the situation.  In this story we have:

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

• The no-shoes shoes of the 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, which they almost certainly will be) were to suddenly appear & assume control, how would i handle it?  

Not great, i imagine.   Especially Depends.

Ifif they told me everything that was of value, my way of life, my skills, knowledge … that was now all meaningless … useless ... here’s some drugs to help you spiral … & oh, btw, we used-up that culture-time to fuck upwreck 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’s still become seismic in effect - just ask Covid - but it’s the slow-rising tidal wave that envelops you ... slowly, surely, you hardly know it's happeninghappening, until it's too late.

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