(LifeSiteNews) — On this inaugural episode of Frankly, LifeSite journalist Frank Wright discusses the ongoing disintegration of the modern world, our addiction to technology, remaining hopeful amid chaos, and more.
Wright opened the episode by discussing how the modern world has abandoned the seed of our civilization, that is, the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and replaced it with lies that have led to the chaotic liberal order we’re currently living through. The journalist emphasized that the majority of people believe these lies thanks to our addiction to consuming content on modern technologies like smartphones. He then highlighted how these smartphones, which we’re addicted to staring into, are almost identical to the Aztecs’ polished “black mirrors,” which they believed gave them the power to see across the world.
“(T)he way our system has developed to rule us, you and me, by supplying make-belief through mass media now relies on a polished black mirror that used to be called the ‘totem of the god of the smoking mirror,’” he said. “The Aztecs said that if you looked into this mirror, it would give you the power of vision. … It said you would see across the world, it would grant you these visionary powers. … When you polish it, it does look like it reflects you somewhat, but it doesn’t quite reflect you truly.”
Wright continued: “And this is the point, it gives you the ability to see across the world, but it also lies to you, and that’s what the Aztecs said. And that’s what our black mirrors do today. They grant you the supernatural power of connecting with people and events all over the world. But the problem is that you no longer know whether any or all of it or some of it is real.”
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Later in the episode, Wright further stressed how modern man’s technology addiction led to his need to constantly consume degenerate entertainment, junk food, and anything that provides instant gratification. He noted that this technology, as Ned Ludd observed, is breaking down families and communities.
“(Ludd) saw that some technologies break down human relations, break down families, break down communities and leave them desolate and concentrate them into urban bug hives where they all believe in putting things into their anus and drinking soy lattes together and spreading avocado toast and then wanting to kill people who don’t believe in mutilating your genitals to prove a point,” he said.
“You’re being overwhelmed now with the idea that you should adopt this new wave of artificial intelligence into your life because it’ll make you more efficient and you should do so unthinkingly, really, because it’s going to be cleverer than you,” he added. “But really, what it does is it teaches you to be reliant on an inherently incoherent system. It doesn’t tell you the truth, it gaslights you, it hallucinates, it makes things up, it answers the same questions differently to different users because it knows what you’ve said before, and it knows what you’re looking for. It isn’t an instrument of the truth; it panders to you.”
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Ending the episode on an optimistic note, Wright predicted that this wicked empire dominated by technology will be completely disintegrated within 3-5 years, and encouraged viewers not to despair or disintegrate with it because better times lie ahead.
“Such a system that supplies these liberties, such a system that relies upon this wickedness, such a system as this, if it were to disintegrate, would you choose to go and dissolve along with it? Or would you celebrate the fact that it’s finally coming to an end?” he pondered.
For Wright’s full analysis, tune in to the full episode of Frankly.
