Olavo de Carvalho
September 25, 2013
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Get ready. In the coming years, the disorder of the world
will reach the level of permanent hallucination, and everywhere
lies and insanity will reign unchecked. I am not
saying this based on any prophecy, but because
I have studied the plans of the three global empires and know that
none of them has the slightest respect for the structure
of reality. Each is possessed by what Eric
Voegelin called “metastatic faith,” the crazy belief in a
sudden saving transformation that will free
humanity from everything that constitutes the very logic of the
earthly condition. In war or peace, fighting to the death or
reconciling themselves in a macabre agreement, each
will promise the impossible and increasingly narrow the
margin of the possible. The Catholic Church is the only force