is more common to life than we recognise.
I used recognise it most when folks
talked about The Pope's claim
that when he was writing about doctrine
he was infallible-as well he ought to be.
The Catholic Church only started to claim
to be infallible on doctrine from 1870 onward,
in direct response to Italian troops
annexing the shrinking Papal estates
and then gifting them by plebiscite
to King Victor Immanuel II of Italy.
Nowadays the flummery of the past
seems so clunky that we discredit history
-it seems like chatter that changes nothing.
Our modern sense of infallibility
comes from the latest technology
-where the less we know
how a bit if kit works
and the better it works
when we pay our fees,
the more infinite our sense of ease,
until our electronics fail us.
Whereupon we throw the electronics in the bin,
not knowing or caring if they will be recycled.
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