the serial-slanderer

I start out from two of my previous conclusions. First, the weakest spot in Protestant culture is the private realm of life whereas the weakest spot in Catholic culture is the public realm of life. Second, the worst enemy of a Protestant society is the serial-killer whereas the worst enemy of a Catholic society is the serial-slanderer.

Enemies do attack from the weakest spot of their targets. Thus serial-killers do attack from the private realm of Protestant societies whereas serial-slanderers do attack from the public realm of Catholic societies.

Serials killers are a phenomenon typical of Protestant societies and their profile has largely been studied. They attack from the private realm of society and are often loners. In public, they seem to be perfectly normal good people, sometimes devoted workers, fathers and believers. They plan and execute their acts, often for years in a row, before unsuspecting people of their closed circles, such as work-colleagues, party members, schoolmates, fellow church-goers, intimate friends, even wives and husbands - and this shows how weak are personal bonds in Protestant societies.

Serial-slanderers are a phenomenon typical of Catholic societies, even though their profile has not been studied, in part because Catholic societies are not as propense to study as Protestant societies. They attack from the public realm of society and are often people with an extensive network of social relations. In private, they seem to be perfectly normal, good people, sometimes devoted workers, fathers and believers. They plan and execute their acts, often for years in a row, from their public positions and often using public means such as newspapers and other public intitutions, justice and tax institutions being particularly effective at that - and all this shows how weak public bonds are in Catholic societies.

Nietszche understood perfectly who were the serial-slanderers par excellence when Catholic religion had an absolute, compreehensive, all-encompassing role in Western societies. In his Antichrist he wrote: "Enquanto o padre, esse negador, caluniador e envenenedor da vida por profissão for aceite como uma variedade de homem superior, não poderá haver resposta à pergunta: o que é a verdade? A verdade já foi posta de cabeça para baixo quando o advogado do nada foi confundido com o representante da verdade".

This was at a time when Church and priests had access to a lot of information on people's lives. They do not anymore, certainly not on a large scale. The only institution today with an extensive access to information on people's lives is the state. And those who control the state are not priests, but politicians and bureaucrats. It is from these two classes of people that the serial-slanderers of modern, Catholic societies come from. (If in doubt, see here).