We are not culturally, intellectually, and mentally, and in that case besides politically capable of self-esteem. For centuries we have lived and cherished life in delusion and myth. Lying becomes the simplest and most common answer to facts, and in addition, we build constructions to explain it, justify it, and give appearances or empty gestures that do not actually exist. We are stubborn about it, as fewer and sometimes in addition, that in defence of story or lies we start wars and we can do the top filth.
Freedom is besides (or possibly above all) the ability to critically think and self-esteem reality. The law and the anticipation of it being freely denounced and made public. Debates. Freedom is besides a right to error, change of view, and effort to realize a different opinion on a given subject, but each time based on facts, cognition and experience, alternatively than taking “on faith” story or cynical, motivated by circumstances and someone's interest of lying.
The way to freedom is winding and bumpy, due to the fact that individual has always wanted to impose his point of view on us, control our thoughts and behaviours, have power over us. reasoning alone is not given to us. We gotta learn it, work it out. Systemic conditions must be met to gradually, over the years, make to independence. This is the case for individuals and likewise for full communities. At the beginning of this road, not everyone needs it and wants it. We should realize that too.
This Polish, culturally nurtured and politically exploited deficiency of self-reliance in reasoning and assessing reality, has actually been out of the blue, due to the fact that in the “French 3” study we did not learn anything new. The pedophilia among the clergy and its organization opacity is simply a subject of judicial processes, many books, films, articles and analyses around the planet for many years, including in Poland for at least a few. The tedious work of the TVN reporter only showed further evidence of what we know or should (we could) know. The procedure of sexual abuse of children among priests and religious, and disregard and subjection, without a drop of empathy, of treating victims of these crimes is widely known and the organization church has covered and hide it inactive despite empty, purely reactive words, that is otherwise. We besides know that Pope John Paul II took part in this cover-up and approval process due to the fact that it was described and documented.
The study afraid the Krakow times of Cardinal Wojtyła. Yeah, they're little known cases, but they shouldn't be surprised. This is the church and 1 can be tempted to a far-reaching but very probable hypothesis that if Cardinal Wojtyła had started a real interior crusade and fought against this organization pathology established in the church tradition, he would most likely not have become a pope and thus could not have done what he had done for Poland. I point out that this does not change my assessment of his function in cover-up and thus in allowing further pedophile crimes. Moral work to me is clear and irrevocab, although I do not anticipate from a man (even by others regarded as holy) of perfection, he realizes the choices erstwhile loyalty to a peculiar man, friend, friend or institution with which I identify and on the another general standard... Yes, these are human choices, not always right, frequently incorrect and internally contradictory. ‘Who of you is without sin, Let first throw into her stone.’ I won't. I can realize and name contradictions erstwhile it concerns me I can forgive, but not excuse, erase, silence.
This does not change the meaning and function of John Paul II in our and my history. I'm reasoning of our common way to freedom. He was her binder as a politician and charismatic folk tribune. This happened and is simply a perfectly documented fact and described on thousands of pages. It is present in millions of memories, in collective and individual memory. This is our experience together. If it had ended there most likely wouldn't have been a large problem dealing with the image of JPII and showing his mistakes and guilt. After all, 1 can look holistically and see the whole: his unquestionable merits for building a community, solidarity with a tiny and capital letter, in effect for freedom in Poland and the function he played in sanctioning pathology in the church or other, carrying the sea of woes of preached dogmas. Confronted with modern cognition and science, he called the "civilization of death", the obsessive fight against human sexuality, contraception, which has contributed to the spread of AIDS in Africa and thousands of deaths or the right of women to decide their motherhood are dramatic and irreversible examples. This is not the first time that large and crucial things are made in 1 area, good and very good and in others, vice versa, bad and very bad. That can be understood and assessed. But not erstwhile rational evaluation obscures created and instrumentally utilized myth.
Myth is simply a social event. It has its weight and shape. It serves to control human emotions, does not require knowing and self-thinking. It is simply a figure built on the religion of the collective. It usually fulfills its hard to realize desire, refers to the thought of reality and not reality, although in a sense it becomes a self-contained entity over time. For centuries, it has been a tool for gaining and exercising power. Unfortunately, we rejected the paradigm of rationality and the independency of thinking. Whether or not we face a myth, not facts, due to the fact that seemingly we can't do otherwise.
I would inform against the justification and translation of Charles Wojtyla and later Pope John Paul II and, of course, of all others who break norms and laws, “asymmetry of times” or “ahistoricity”. The fact that once, 50, 20, 10 years ago “was different” is the natural turn of things. The pedophilia was not the subject of breakfast television, due to the fact that it had not yet been, people thought of many things differently, changed and changed further the morals, requirements, rigors and, above all, changed the variety of "circularities" from political to cultural and social, but... it happens within 1 civilization, 1 culture, in which there are fixed mention points that separate right from incorrect and lie or false from truth. You can't skip that.
First of all, we measure and draw conclusions here and now. We usage the current network of concepts and the hierarchy of values – we have a full right and even a work to do so, due to the fact that the conclusions of these assessments service the future. The awareness that slavery is pure evil has come late but has contributed to the evolution that sanctiones human and citizen rights in our planet present and the behaviour and historical figures of years ago are subject to wider assessment, including from this, present-day perspective. Secondly, force and harm, and peculiarly the weak and vulnerable, have frequently been insidious forever, regardless of circumstances, and is branded and described in the codes. Relating this to sexual crimes against children for reasons of the alleged asymmetry of times, unfortunately, raises suspicion that not all of them are treated as they should be. It's tricky, but it's allowed to do evil. Thirdly, although circumstances have changed (political systems, sensitivity and public awareness, morals) in the church, small has changed in this regard. As they cover up, cover up, let it to continue. This is not about “circumstance” but about lying and evil within the institution of the church itself (institutional religion – the factories of myths and their defenders) and its sense of power over others and the sense of impunity of its officers, which frequently take pathological forms. It is they who absolve or not, including each other.
I have no uncertainty that Kaczyński and his people will now go to defend the story of Saint John Paul II, church and religion, without which, as their propaganda proclaims, there is no Poland and this war will service as a weapon in the upcoming elections and alibi for all unrighteousness, scandals, thefts that they commit by destroying our country. They'll lie, deny the facts, and do whatever they can to concentrate their followers under these very flags. For this it was created, and in any places it creates, evokes and cultivates myths forever. Not everyone and not everywhere has managed to get out of Cantov’s “self-guiled independence”.
One last thing. This war and defence of the holiness and good name of John Paul II by Kaczyński will surely not service his memory well, vice versa, it will harm her and associate with a organization with which he was never close, due to the fact that they do not flow out of respect to him only from purely political, partisan and far from cynical calculating.
Photo – parliament, PiS parliamentary jury, resolution in defence of JPII, 09.03.2023.
