Because The World Is Perfidious, I Am Going Into Mourning

'Because the world is perfidious, I am going into mourning'
BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Misanthrope
1568




The Dutch inscription reads: 'Because the world is perfidious, I am going into mourning'. The moral of the painting is that such a relinquishment of the world is not possible: one must face up to the world's difficulties, not abandon responsibility for them. The hooded misanthrope is being robbed by the small figure in a glass ball, a symbol of vanity. His action shows how impossible it is to give up the world. The misanthrope is also walking unawares towards the mantraps set for him by the world. He cannot renounce it as he would wish, and he is contrasted with the shepherd in the background who guards his sheep and who is more virtuous than the misanthrope because of his simple, honourable performance of his duties, his sense of responsibility towards his charges. Web Gallery of Art


How far removed is the traditionalist & distributist mentality from the mentality of the hooded misanthrope? Not very far, these men know that the world is perfidious and will do their best to relinquish the world in thought word and deed. Many traditionalist & distributist believe that by removing ones self from the world will improve their life and protect them from harm. It is the siege mentality at work. The traditionalist & distributist refuses to face up to the world's difficulties and instead hide from the difficulties by spreading lies and falsehoods about the message of Fatima hoping for world war III to correct everything. It is a sickness that needs a cure.

Misanthrope: hating humankind, you may say that calling some in the traditionalist & distributist movements misanthropic would be unkind and off the mark, but for the majority of the traditionalist & distributists who desire world-wide nuclear annihilation in order to advance their cause shows that they really do have a hatred for mankind. The misuse of Our Lady’s words “various nations will be annihilated” has caused considerable harm to the restoration of all things in Christ, many believe that these words of Our Lady mean only one thing and that is: complete and total nuclear annihilation. Because many believe this to be true most will do nothing to help bring about the restoration of all things in Christ, and why should they? After all if the world is going to blow up in some nuclear catastrophe, why do anything at all? So misuse of Our Lady’s words “various nations will be annihilated” leads to inaction.

The majority of the traditionalist & distributist ignore the words of Our Lord: Suffer both to grow until the harvest. Instead the misanthrope wants the enemies of the Blessed Trinity to be destroyed by nuclear annihilation so the misanthropic traditionalist/distributist does not have to confront and conquer the enemies of God. When the nuclear annihilation takes place then these misanthropic Catholics will then restore all things in Christ, or so they believe! Why restore all things in Christ if the world is going to blow up in a nuclear holocaust? Might as well sit it out and wait!

The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. And the servants of the goodman of the house coming said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

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