Mental Musings

Do all those people dressed in black and calling themselves Goths realize that the original bearers of that title were one of several groups of barbarians who among other things sacked the Eternal City but spared its Christian population. Perhaps they should consider calling themselves bats, since they too just hang about and enjoy the dark. Alternately if they want to be Gothic, then they should consider becoming Catholics, if they are not already, and visit St. Patrick's Cathedral here in Melbourne which is built in that style. As to the literary understanding of gothic as works characterized by the macabre, murderous or mysterious, let us recall that it is fiction and an attempt to "explore the darkest depths of the soul or the most unsettling aspects of evil, and give voice in a way to the universal desire for redemption."[1] In which case they should still visit St. Patricks. A win-win situation if ever I heard/read/saw one.

[1] Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Artists, 1999

It is a amusing when you consider Marxist aspirations for a classless society that in order to continue its existence you need at least three classes: the state, its police and the rest of society.