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The Devil’s Deathly Dominion

Physician-turned-author Walker Percy’s final novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, published in 1987, tells the odd tale of a town wherein the ‘elites’ are devolving – or is that de-evolving? – the minds of its citizens into ape-like status by adding ‘sodium ions’ to the water supply. As they act more like chimpanzees, the townspeople become ever-more compliant, no longer able to resist by reason, reduced to thinking about, and acting upon, simian sex all day. (As far as I can recall, such allusions are all PG-rated, and references indirect). Their nefarious purpose? The aptly named anti-hero, Thomas More, a semi-retired, cynical, burned-out physician, discovers they are also killing off the old and sick, while destroying the minds and souls of the hale and healthy, to set up a regime wherein they can corrupt and sexually abuse not only the brain-regressed, but the children as well.

One might have thought that such a bizarre dystopic fantasy, and so it seemed back in the relatively halcyonic neon days of the Eighties, would never come to pass, but ponder what we now have: The mind-numbing conforming effects of modern university; the definitely non-PG-rated drag-queen story times, with groomed children lying a-top twerking transvestites; a presidential candidate ushering a nine-year old boy on stage to announce he is ‘gay’ – whatever that might mean, for surely odd little ‘Mayor Pete’ could not be insinuating that such a moppet would engage, actively or passively, in the actus contra naturam, which is essentially what defines homosexuality. And the old, the sick, the maimed and infirm who arrive at hospitals may expect no longer to be healed or at least comforted, but shuffled along into that gentle good night, by hooks and by crooks.

Percy was onto something when he saw a deep and devilish connection between disordered sex and the desire for death. The Thanatos syndrome seems to have dawned upon us, almost unawares.

Praise the Lord

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