Come friend, and let us now retrace the footsteps of the laurel wreathed Florentine that good Virgil guided once before, and enter into that Hell writ large on the canvas of modernity: that Hell broadcast, wi-fi’d, and fibre-to-the-premises’d into the homes and pockets of us all, thence to be refracted through scrying mirrors sigil’d with the forbidden apple. It is from those obsidian screens that very Hades doth then stream relentlessly into many lost souls, burning not with fire but with narrative, borne on by the wings of the Prince of the Air. So let us now ascend and descend; whirl, and swirl; oscillate and vacillate; through truths and untruths; dialectics and kayfabes; influencers and assets: And hope, that like the Tuscan and the Roman long ago, we too shall escape those wretched Infernal cloisters. And there, on the other side of Paradise, at last find our salvation and rest eternal, in dearest Truth.
LAUDS AND APPROBATIONS
One of the most commonly-heard descriptions of the contemporary political-cultural panorama is the word "mad" or some variation thereupon. This widespread perception that "the world is going mad" logically follows the disintegration and desocialisation that is being universally experienced across the formerly-Christian West. In this burlesque but nonetheless profound Dantean odyssey, Augustine Virgil shows how the layers of the modern media hellscape, far from restraining social chaos by seeking to preserve what little order is left, actually constitute some of the principle instigators of the irrational, the diabolical and the horrendous. Miguel Ayuso has called modern media "reality-fiction"; a hybrid beast all the more dangerous since it mingles truth with lies to entice the masses, concocting strong delusions which Christians are not to give heed to. In this unique book, the author's love of the Christian and Classical tradition anchors his satirical but scorching critique of the legacy and alternative media ecospheres and begins to point the way home. — Theo Howard, Two Cities Podcast
