There was specified a communicative by Jack Dukaj “The Land of Christ” about the invention of catapults for wandering between alternate worlds. They are called from who had the strongest influence on the form of the planet in the 21st century. Our planet is called “The Land of Stalin”.
There's a digression I'd like to pull. Let us catapult ourselves with our imagination to the Earth of Wojtyla – in which our large Pole shortly after the Second planet War abandoned his clergy career for the benefit of the theatre, his second large love.
Dramaturg was alternatively the same, but his industriousness and innate leadership skills would make him a prominent director. With his talent for languages, he might have gone to the West before Mrożek and Polanski, moved to the Celeloid world, conquered Hollywood, made an adaptation of “Solaris” to his Krakow friend, someway in the second half of the 1960s, erstwhile the whole, together with the Gibarian guest home with Jane Fonda, was located in the Overton window?
In this alternate universe, Wojtyla, we imagine not in the sutanna and papamobile, but in the tuxedo, on the red carpet, how he receives the prize for the main function in the movie "Peter Adamczyk". There are no achievements in the church, but in the planet of culture.
How'd it go? Paul VI most likely besides has an encyclical "Humanae vitae", but completely different, due to the fact that – as our hagiographers say – Wojtyła played an crucial function in preparing the main ones, as well, as the main specialist of human intimacy in the Cardinal's College.
Let me be corrected by others, expert in militology (it would be useful to respawn col. the Work of the Bones!), but on the basis of my modest information, specified as the books by the editor of Aleksandra Klich, on the “theology of the body” by Charles Wojtyła was a key influence of his friend Wanda Połtawska. Who, due to her trauma, was homophobic and even eroticophobic, was horrified by the thought of having sex for pleasure.
Based on the achievements of the pioneers of sexology, as well forgotten present Theodoor van de Velde, author of the erstwhile bestseller “Perfect Marriage”, imagined sex as something fundamentalally asymmetric.
My wife gives herself to her husband in a desire for affection and security. If she has an orgasm at all, then accidentally, that's not what she means (if that's what she means, then any perverted nymphomaniac should be treated with it).
In turn, the man offers sensitivity reluctantly due to the fact that he only wants sexual satisfaction, to which he undertakes another male activities – with 1 hand he smokes a cigar, the another counts banknotes, the 3rd hunting for a mammoth. If he's curious in sensitivity, any effeminate fago, he needs to be treated.
Of course, I am ironic, but ‘Humanae vitae’ is written by individual who imagines it that way. Thus is the argument built for the absurd thesis that "anticonception harms a woman" (because the man then uses her as an instrument of his lust, and she herself, as she said, has no lust).
"Theology of the body" is besides devious for individual else, acting independently of the royalties of Wojtyła-Półtawska, to come up with the same idea. So Paul VI writes another encyclical.
Who knows, possibly more meaningful. any “Sexus consensualus” with the thesis that all adults do by common consent is OK as long as they treat each another with common respect, and as with love, it is ho ho at all.
So we have an alternate Catholic church – whose sexual ethics are more akin to those of Protestant churches. Or vice versa, maintaining pre-sobor anachronistic rigorism: so we have churches even more empty than today. What’s not to like?
However, the real difference begins in October 1978 erstwhile a conclave is won by individual else. Liberals and conservatives would most likely be in a akin stalemate as in our universe – so they would gotta choose a compromise candidate like "minor evil".
This individual would most likely besides take the name of John Paul II, due to the fact that they cared about this liberal (they already had their pope... but this 1 died after a fewer months, what an extraordinary coincidence). But he would not be a Pole (you can usage individual here).
So we most likely do not have "Solidarity" as a mass movement. due to the fact that here I agree that the volunteer order defender organized at the parishes, accompanying the first papal pilgrimage from Italian land to Poland, was the organizational origin of the future union.
Gierek would most likely gotta rise the prices of sausage anyway, there'd most likely be strikes, he'd most likely fly in their case. But there would be no appearance of August, and so of martial law – only the slow rotting of the system, as in the GDR or Czechoslovakia.
Gorbachev would be anyway. late fashionable in our bubble, Tom Cooper is 1 of the supporters of the thesis that the conflict over Bekaa Valley, called among the enthusiasts of #rapiers "hunting turkeys" (Bekaa Valley Turkey Shoot).
This operation demonstrated specified superiority of the American military method (used by Israel) over the russian military method (used by Syria), as if in the "Cyrilization" raided with tanks on guys for whom the top unit is inactive the Musketeers. This made the Russians aware that they lost the Cold War.
It coincides with another fashion author's besides Chris Miller, that in the 1980s simulations conducted by the general staff of the USSR showed that in the case of the 3rd planet world – NATO would destruct the full atomic russian arsenal with conventional bombs. The Russians did not (and do not have) resources to keep dominance in the air in their territory.
Like many pop culture consumers, I was convinced that Su-27 and Mig-31 were powerful airplanes due to the fact that I was playing computer games due to the fact that I was watching Top Gun, and there the fight was leveled. Pop culture requires this for compositional reasons – no 1 wants to play a turkey shooting simulator, and that would be the actual fight "F-16 versus Russian crap".
So Gorbachev is starting reforms anyway, and these reforms are going besides well for him anyway. The Gorbachev pilgrimages of JP2 and jumping through Lech Wałęsa's fences did not have any influence – they changed the past of Poland, but not the full block.
In 1989, local authorities and dissidents in all russian bloc countries would begin to test the boundaries of the peries. In August 1989, it most likely would have been “pan-European picnic” on the Hungarian-Austrian border. In November 1989 a celebrated lapsus would most likely happen besides Gunther SchabowskiFrom which the Berlin Wall fell.
The first free elections would most likely be about erstwhile Hungarians (May 1990) or Czechs and Slovaks (June 1990). So later than partially free (June 1989), but much earlier than the first truly free (October 1991).
This script has many advantages. Lech Walesa wouldn't be president, possibly he wouldn't be a known politician at all.
The President's institution itself was created at the circular Table for Jaruzelski. possibly we wouldn't have a strong president, but an old woman who hangs medals like many democratic states.
Most importantly, Poland would laicify itself more or little the same as another Catholic countries: Spain, Ireland, Austria. In 1989 it would be more secular than in 1978, and present more than in 1989.
There would be no ban on abortion, concordat, religion in schools. Furthermore, politics would not necessarily look better as a full (we have small reason to envy Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, etc.). possibly he'd even regulation the same Kaczyński, but without Ordo Iuris.
In any case, we would have joined the Union the same way, on May 1, 2004. In the script “Wartyła w tuxedo” I do not see anything worse than the script “Wartyła w sutanna”. And a fewer things would be much better.
What do you see?
