(LifeSiteNews) – British rock star Morrissey embedded the first episode of Frank Wright’s new LifeSiteNews show on his website, perhaps demonstrating that Wright’s just-launched series, titled The State We Are In, enjoys far-reaching interest across vasts swaths of today’s information- and explanation-starved society.
Wright has risen to prominence since a video interview shared by Elon Musk on X a week ago quickly garnered more than 40 million views.
Wright starts with an intriguing question: What if the crisis of our age cannot be explained by politics, economics, or culture? What if those systems themselves have been captured, hollowed out, and turned into machines for manufacturing belief, controlling opinion, and hiding the collapse?
Wright explains that for over a century, a revolutionary system has been reshaping Western civilization. Inherited faith, tradition, and institutions have been replaced with propaganda, technological management, and a new order that no one voted for and no one can escape.
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“The revolution we have inhabited has taken away so much that it is impossible to describe using only the terms supplied to us by the mass culture produced to replace our civilization,” Wright emphasizes. “So I will show you ideas which come from outside that frame as well as from within it, and of course many of those ideas are those of the Church before the century of revolution revised the Church’s teachings to suit itself.”
He promises “a revision of how we look back at everything, which should be welcome now as the meanings supplied by the myths of the 20th century are no longer capable of explaining the world.”
“What is ending is not the world, but the world as we know it,” says Wright. “How we came to mistake this world for the real one is another subject of this series. A further is what to do next. We must go back to the beginning because we cannot hope to do better in the political economy of mass destruction if we do not understand what it is and how it came to be.
Morrissey once described himself as a “seriously lapsed Catholic” in a 1989 interview.
“It was at the usual time, 10, 11, 12, after being forced to go to church and never understanding why and never enjoying it, seeing so many negative things, and realizing it somehow wasn’t for me. I can only have faith in things I see,” he said.
In 2004 he released a song exploring his lapsed Catholicism with the controversial title “I Have Forgiven You Jesus.” For the music video he dressed up in the attire of a Catholic priest. The song says “Jesus hurt me / when he deserted me, but I have forgiven you Jesus / for all the desire / you placed in me when there’s nothing I can do with this desire.”