Fr dear Fr: Is there any truth in the rumour that politicos round Downing Street are considering more and more consulting with experts on the single virginal life as a result of the Covid plague, seeking some advice as to how to live in a non-contact environing?

Covid has exposed many things in our little jaunty but chirpy society, and among them one might adumbrate a list of the sequentia:

• The superficiality of general attitudes to life;

• The blase and very empiricist attitude to end times and death;

• The passion for criticising an empire knocking on the doors of Eurozones;

• The modelling obsession with endless holiday travel to places like Dubai;

• The public instagram cults to the private executive jet;

• The dependency of society on a debunked 70s philosophy of “wine, women, and song”;

• Leaving most GB citizens schooled on the obvious tenet of socialising unprepared for incel celibacy;

• So silence is lacking, no gurus in society;

• Solitude is lacking, a lack of TM for most couples;

• Serenity is lacking, a lack of inner poise in many businessmen.

  All this has meant that when the govt politicos in heterosexual and homosexual Britain suddenly were presented with strict norms on socialising they had to reach out and struggle to find icons of incel happiness. What can we learn from the ancient guides that guided the early Christians? In the book “The Germania” by Tacitus the historian, the Roman chronicler mentions the surprise and astonishment of the early Roman legions when they encountered the fierce warriors of the Germanic tribes, astonishment from the indulgent and boozy soldiers of the Roman empire, for the following reasons:

• Germanic super-warriors avoided the mead-halls before battles;

• Alcohol was regarded by the super-warriors as the ruination of men;

• Warriors of the super kind were not always bawdy or boorish;

• Not all of them spent their nights in the mead-hall;

• Not all the warriors were expected to sleep around as per GB soldiers;

• Many of the super-warriors practised celibacy and some of the brave ones virginity;

• Virginity was highly prized among the super-warriors of the Germanians;

  So there emerged over time the cult of the Virgin Super Warrior. And he was prized for the following qualities:

• Clarity of Mind;

• Skill with the sword;

• Perception in battle;

• Self control period;

• Self control in times of heated exchanges of passion;

• Skill when dealing with brutish men and lax women;

• A super-class of virginals and incels thuswise developed in Germania;

• A Germania which eventually overcame all the war-engineering of the Romans;

• Sacking the eternal city of Rome in 410 AD as Boris points out in a book;

• Much like the way that the Taliban overcame the indulgent Usa poppy driven soldiers of Afghanistan;

• Arndt the crusader being a later example of the genre, regarded as a boyish nun but mightily skilled with the use of the sword;

• And the bravest of them all, the Teuton Templars, later would espouse this philosophy and this design.

  For all of the above reasons, I do not know for sure personally what goes on at Downing Street having never visited the zone in my time in London, nor therefore if it is true nowadays that somewhat penitent politicos around No 10 are now keen to find spiritual gurus who can teach others spiritual self-control in times of national crisis like a plague, either beginning from Buddhism or beginning from monastic Catholic Christianity, but they might have hit upon a surprising modern weakness - booze is a weakness - for which the virgin super warriors of the Germanians and then the Teutonic Templar orders are a solution in time of stress. Certainly, we have heard a little too much of the older now largely debunked No 10ish philosophy of “eat and drink and be merry today for tomorrow we die”, and the general young men philosophy of “wine, women, and song”, n’est-ce pas? Even assuming in our moment of extreme charity that the party hacks in the gardens were simply just mightily relieved to be alive in June 2020 - Ovid the Roman poet reminds us from his experience of plague in Pontus in the ancient times that people behave oddly during plagues and diseases, often abandoning all restraint or even self-preservation. No time for prohibition of course a la Chicago in the Roaring Twenties, but a little locale prohibition and a curb on blue philosophy might have done some good this last year. Or is this too little too late? Certainly, many young people are nowadays more and more desirous of qualities they perceive that they have lost through too much booze and fleshly excess, from too much of taking the plunge into the pools of the fleshpots of Egypt or Dubai or whichever, qualities of the virginal incels such as Clarity of the Mind. Sorry for the government’s troubles. Tough times, trying times.