This amazing passage about power-turned-demonic from the great Catholic thinker, prophet, and priest, Romano Guardini, is displaying itself in front of our eyes. This captures and explains the scamdemic and the mentality of both the wicked elites and the mass-formed sheep more than anything else. More to come on this in the next post . . .
In itself, power is neither good nor evil; its quality is determined by him who wields it. In fact, of itself it is only potentially constructive or destructive, since it is essentially governed by freedom. When power is not determined by freedom that is to say, by the human will either nothing happens at all, or there arises a hodgepodge of habits, incoherent impulses, and blind herd-instincts: chaos.
Thus power is as much a possibility for good and the positive as it is a threat of destruction and evil. The danger grows with the growth of power, a fact that is brought home to us today with brutal clarity. A more immediate danger threatens when power is at the disposal of a will that is either morally misguided or morally uncommitted. Or there may be no appealable will at all, no person answerable for power, only an anonymous organization, each department of which transfers its authority to the next, thus leaving each seemingly exempt from responsibility. This type of power becomes particularly ominous when, as is true so often these days, respect for the human person, for his dignity and responsibility, for his personal values of freedom and honor, for his initiative and way of life grow visibly feebler.
Then power acquires characteristics which ultimately only Revelation is in a position to interpret: it becomes demonic. Once action is no longer sustained by personal awareness, is no longer morally answerable, a peculiar vacancy appears in the actor. He no longer has the feeling that he, personally, is acting; that since the act originates with him he is responsible for it. He no longer seems master of the act; instead the act seems to pass through him, and he is left feeling like one element in a chain of events. And with others it is the same, so that there remains no real authority to appeal to, since authority presupposes a person whose warrant comes directly from God, to whom he is answerable. Instead, there is a growing sense of there being no one at all who acts, only a dumb, intangible, invisible, indefinable something which derides questioning. Its functions appear to be necessary, so the individual submits to them. Seemingly incomprehensible, it is simply accepted as a "mystery" (in reality it is only a pseudo-mystery) and as such draws to itself those sentiments, in distorted form, which a man is meant to reserve for his fate, not to say, God.* This vacancy comes into being when the person which, to be sure, can never be entirely lost, for a man can no more throw away his person than he can be deprived of it is ignored, denied, violated. But the emptiness does not remain, for that would mean that the human being would somehow be reduced to a natural being, and his power to natural energy. This is impossible. What does happen is that the void is succeeded by a faithlessness which hardens to an attitude, and into this no man's land stalks another initiative, the demonic.
—Romano Guardini, Power and Responsibility, pp. 6-8
This notion of anonymous, bureaucratized power is exactly what happened during the scamdemic. Everyone was just following someone else’s guidelines.
What is your opinion of his work with Vatican II? What I wonder is in his zeal for making the Church more accessible through Liturgical reform if he had any premonition of consequences? He was in keeping with the spirit of the post-war world of his era, but now we are on the other bank of this river.