{"id":16486,"date":"2014-10-03T00:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=16486"},"modified":"2020-03-15T19:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:31:19","slug":"the-coming-lord-of-the-flies-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-coming-lord-of-the-flies-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming “Lord of the Flies” Moment","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nScene from “Lord of the Flies”, Nelson Entertainment<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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IT<\/strong> is perhaps one of the most augury and revealing movies in recent times. The Lord of the Flies<\/em> (1989) is the story of a group of boys who are the survivors of a shipwreck. As they settle in to their island surroundings, power struggles ensue until the boys devolve into essentially a totalitarian<\/em> state where the powerful control the weak\u2014and eliminate the elements that don’t “fit in.” It is, in fact, a parable<\/em> of what has happened over and over again in the history of mankind, and is repeating itself again today before our very eyes as the nations reject the vision of the Gospel put forth by the Church.<\/p>\n

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Societies not recognizing this vision or rejecting it in the name of their independence from God are brought to seek their criteria and goal in themselves or to borrow them from some ideology. Since they do not admit that one can defend an objective criterion of good and evil, they arrogate to themselves an explicit or implicit totalitarian power over man and his destiny, as history shows.<\/strong> \u2014POPE JOHN PAUL II, Centesimus annus<\/em>, n. 45, 46<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the final scenes, the island descends into chaos and fear as the dissidents are hunted. The boys run out onto the beach… and all of a sudden find themselves at the feet of Marines who had just landed by boat. One soldier stares down in disbelief at the savage kids and asks, “What are you doing?”<\/em> It was a moment of illumination<\/em>. Suddenly, these barbarous tyrants became little boys again who began to weep as they remembered who they truly were.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is the same kind of moment experienced by Job as the Lord put his “wisdom” in place:<\/p>\n

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The Lord addressed Job out of the storm<\/span>…\u00a0<\/em>Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place… Have you entered into the sources of the sea… Have the gates of death been shown to you… Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? (First reading)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Humbled, Job responds, “What can I answer you? I put my hand over my mouth.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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O LORD, you have probed me and you know me; you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. (Today’s P salm)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Such a moment is coming for the world before it is going to be purified. [1]<\/sup><\/a>see The Eye of the Storm<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Revelation Illumination<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>