SERIOUS GRAVITY (A SANITY PRIMER)

Consider your connection to this fallen entity, this vast governing world-historical body, this overgrown, outdated, ill-fated, scandal-plagued, tone-deaf bureaucracy otherwise known as " the hierarchy " - in the midst of its ongoing rearguard maneuvers, moving instinctively backward like crew members upon a sinking ship....consider your knowledge or lack of knowledge concerning this secret society and the internal workings of ecclesiastical power, consider the gossip and intrigue going back centuries, involving cardinals, arch-bishops and popes, the machinations among the higher-ups, the infighting, the pedigree of authority that (once) sets them on pedestals, giving them power to bind or unbind the sins of others,  to instruct, prescribe, pronounce, uphold, prohibit etc. etc. - with unquestioned impunity - a circumstance presumably set in motion by the Founder himself (?) or his apostles (?) or the earliest of church fathers (?)... a structure that predates all of us, that