katholikos is Greek for global
Katholikos may be Greek for universal or global, but Poppy believes that it's an ethos by no means exclusive to the Catholic faith. “They all do it,” says Poppy. “Religions, corporations and all manner of political, social and philanthropic organizations are fired by the katholikos ethos – wanting to spread their tentacles throughout the world.”
“Mostly the globalization of ideas, technologies and products is beneficial, or at least benign,” says Poppy, “but some things just shouldn’t be allowed to spread beyond their country of origin.”
“Like a bacterium or virus that may be harmless to one host but fatal to another,” says Poppy, “the global spread of some things can be fatal to some indigenous populations.”
“Not just fatal in terms of being wiped out physically by a disease or a substance – as invading westerners wiped out natives with their foreign diseases and alcoholic beverages,” says Poppy, “but also fatal in terms of indigenous customs, language and traditions.”
“Today, we’re seeing not just people and their traditions threatened by globalization, but iconic local products, too,” says Poppy. “The big corporations come in, take-over small producers and people who’ve grown up being proud of a local product suddenly find it no longer belongs to ‘them’ – it belongs to the world – and it no longer provides employment for them – it is cheaper to produce overseas.”
“Alexander the Great of Macedon, near Greece, was the first and most well-known global influencer – spreading his brand of civilization from Egypt to India,” says Poppy, “and the Greek colonists founded the Roman Empire which, in turn, ‘civilized’ most of the known world at that time by conquest.”
“And then the Greeks were instrumental in spreading Christianity,” says Poppy. “Those Greeks sure know how to do the world!”
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Labels: catholic, conversion, globalism, globalization, god bods, immigrants, indigenous populations, katholikos
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