The Cathedral: from harp to hammer

Every revolutionary knows that if they are to cement their power for generations to come, it is prudent to mould the minds of the youth as if they were clay.

Bournbrook Magazine’s latest print issue is primarily a discussion on the concept of ‘the Cathedral’, featuring contributions by Peter Hitchens, Paul Embery, William Clouston, Alexander Adams and more. Order it for just £3 here or subscribe here and get your first month free. In this online-exclusive article, Luke Perry takes a look at ‘the Cathedral’.

Unlike the quick coup d’états of old, when political power effectively changed overnight through a military junta under the direction of a Machiavellian figure, ‘the Cathedral’ initially established its power via a slow march through the institutions. Within two decades after the surrender of the Axis powers, political neo-Marxists masquerading as qualified academics cooked up outlandish, post-modern theories designed to weaken and destroy the society they were bequeathed, rather than enhance or expand it.

The ideologies born in this laboratory – from feminism to critical race theory to transgenderism – pitted man against man and promised a utopia once the enlightened had conducted scorched earth policies against the backward traditions and customs of the past. These ideas then seeped into the impressionable minds of university students who were later filtered into comfortable, white-collar jobs that wielded significant sociological influence.

In practice, these post-modern ideologies manifested into an intolerant, fanatical dogma; a totalitarian outlook that was further fuelled by paranoia. For if society operates solely via oppressed-oppressor relations, anything that could aid the ‘them’ could put the ‘us’ in mortal peril. Simply gaze upon the trans lobby’s argument against ‘misgendering’ for proof of this concept.

Every revolutionary knows that if they are to cement their power for generations to come, it is prudent to mould the minds of the youth as if they were clay. For if they grow up in this environment, they will perceive it to be a state of nature: this is how things are, how things have always been, and how things will always be. Through dominance over the media, the education system, the corporate world, all the way up the chain of command to adversarial party politics, combating ‘systemic oppression’ while putting the empty mantras of ‘diversity and inclusivity’ above all else became visible sinews in the hearts of those who lazily forgot the duties of their profession.

The police force is one of the most egregious examples of this phenomenon. Rather than fighting crime, regular coppers have mutated into civil servants armed with hi-vis jackets and handcuffs, who bravely knock on people’s doors to tell them off for posting mean tweets. In 2017, The Times reported that seven people a day were being arrested for so-called ‘grossly offensive’ (an ambiguous term that is weaponised against ‘the Cathedral’s’ enemies) comments they made online. Meanwhile, burglars have found themselves living in a Gotham-style Shangri-La, preying on innocent homeowners without any fear that the authorities will catch them or even send the forensics team out to examine a torn-up bedroom. Even the prison service has had to be slapped on the wrist for referring to prisoners as ‘clients’, the thinking being that calling them ‘inmates’ would offend them. The horror.

Throughout most of the Cathedral’s history, the culture of victimhood, fifth column infiltration and indoctrination of the masses has been what political theorists term ‘soft power’. There was no state decree that ushered in the sexual revolution, for instance, which sought to break the ‘repressive’ chains of chastity and parenthood. Only once the foundations were put in place did the temperature begin to rise. The masses were a frog in a boiling pot.

Then the Cathedral’s power became more omnipresent. Its rule, like all civilisations, mirrors the trajectory of a star. It begins as just a speck of dust, then its core undergoes nuclear fusion which generates the star’s heat and brightness. After this long period of stability, it runs out of hydrogen and begins burning heavier elements, causing it to swell to its red giant phase (you are here, or almost here).

The Cathedral is no different. Its tranquil-but-stranglehold existence lasted until roughly a few years ago, when a series of shock events lured it out into the open. The 2008 financial crash and great recession lead to the corporate world telling its press puppets to focus on issues of identity to subvert and corrupt their political energy – to put it lightly. Following the admirable Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, the frequency of social justice buzzwords typed out by established print publications leapt into the stratosphere. Looking at any graph makes you think that the Cathedral’s dictionary went on a rocket ride to space.

Then the election of Donald Trump in 2016 caused the Cathedral to fully declare war on its opponents. There was manipulation of language and various social punishments dished out to enemies before, but this only intensified. Social media, one of the most potent tentacles of the Cathedral, ramped up its censorship practices, which would eventually scalp a sittng US president. Political intolerance on university campuses thrust itself into overdrive, while the formal class curricula taught to primary school pupils delved into one-sided party politics. It is not uncommon to find left-leaning teachers commanding their pupils to write scratching letters about the Prime Minister, filled to the brim with concepts and comments on current affairs the children can’t comprehend.

The 2010s witnessed the transition from the harp to the hammer. From the luring tune of the sirens to the hate-filled cries of power hungry ideologues. Having mastered all echelons of society, it was now time to pull the strings of political power. The last two years have shown that the transitional ideology of the Cathedral (often called the ‘Current Thing’) can sway the masses into brainwashed foot soldiers through omnipresent propaganda and heavy-handed Government policy, which hijacks two core human emotions: arrogance and fear.

Using Covid as an example, the arrogance stemmed from the Cathedral flattering those who double-masked and triple jabbed as being virtuous, positioned firmly on the right side of the good vs evil canyon. On the other hand, the Cathedral utilises fear in order to attack its opponents by copying the War on Terror’s ‘enemy within’ approach. The evil were those granny killers and anti-vaxxers who were puttng everyone’s life in danger, so they had to be controlled through strict fines and jab mandates. They could not be trusted when left to their own devices.

As can be seen, the Cathedral has married politics to culture (in reality, politics came first, manufacturing its will covertly to avoid democratically upsetting an unassimilated populace, but that is a tale for another time). When the ‘Freedom Convoy’ took to the streets of the Canadian capital, the crowdfunding plaform GoFundMe seized all $10million worth of funds that were donated and gave them to more fashionable, Cathedral-friendly causes instead. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gifted himself a series of emergency powers, accusing the truckers of ‘disrespecting science’ and being filled with “hate, abuse and racism”.

The Cathedral plays by the iron law of politics: friend good, enemy bad. Whatever benefits you and your allies, as well as hurts your enemies, should be pursued without question. This is why a Cathedral-approved largely peaceful protest (think summer 2020) can torch streets and tear down statues uninhibited. The Joe Biden Administration’s Disinformation Governance Board (a formal Ministry of Truth) is perhaps the most grotesque display of hard power for some time, and remember, it has only been ‘paused’ following a right-wing backlash, meaning it will be back out to play once the heat has died down. This two-steps forward, one step back (if need be) method has been the Cathedral’s tactic from day one. The political class know they are fightng in this colosseum. Do we?