This Part of Creation

When Christ came as the high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with hands, that is to say not a part of this creation. Not through the blood of goats and calves but through His own blood, He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. Hebrews 9:11-12

…Not part of this creation. For the confirmed secularist or atheist who would prefer life to be constructed completely without the troubling, unsolvable mysteries, the intimations, and the absolute cognitive and spiritual barrier to final, comprehensive knowledge accessible by a sole or aggregated collective human mind, or the portentous, coming and now here super-mind of Machine Intelligence, the Biblical idea of separated creations is bogus, a hoax, the “opium of the people,” illusory, irrational, etc. As such, for 21st century modern life, a time which is distinctive by the most intense and widespread integration of humanity in history, for most today the Market has brought the most stable world-system for intelligible treatment of human activities across every aspect of relationships, regulations, understandings, nationalities, and belief systems.

It is easy to understand that from their perspective the immense variety of interests, motivations, ideas, hopes, and dreams that proliferate in the explosion of the global population to a fathomable seven billion individual lives, the need for a world-wide, systematic means for global integration is obvious for the most efficient and effective system. The 7 billion of us individuals need a system to incorporate us and render some way for our interaction, right?  Just as a chief element of civilization is an agreed upon and reliable system of governance to distinguish right and wrong behavior and to make accessible the most definitive rules and regulations that every person within a territory, nation, or integrated world must live by, so in the 21st century of the globalized citizenry some such global governance for global humanity must be determined and established by all governing authorities for an effective, efficient, and comprehensive system.

Voila… does not the Market and its imperfect but workable, global operational application for global integration and global systemic rules and regulations provide just such perhaps a rudimentary but useful means for a necessary system of global governance? Most if not all governing authorities in the world from the most influential and power-ladened sectors of world-life have seemingly come to an agreement of just such an arrangement. These sectors include governmental, financial, banking, manufacturing, industrial, political, legal, academic, military, public health, scientific, communications technological, mainstream journalist, entertainment, and establishment religious entities. Have I inadvertently left out any sector? If so, they are surely on the list as well.

What can be made of this? For the Davos crowd – those by their amount of accumulated capital have been freed from the common lot of a day to day individual grind for individual survival and maintenance and for access to their preferred enjoyments and pleasures, the Market is and has been the answer for generations and centuries. Realistically, in this world of competing ideologies (ideas), belief systems, hopes and dreams, and aspirations not to mention hungry mouths to feed and yearning imaginations to satisfy, on the one hand the Davos crowd can be seen as very generous and altruistic in their deriving a path, standards, and a goal by which global humanity can effectively address and come to a resolution to the growing limitations and problems needing global-wide solutions. That path, those standards and their goals arguably are those which the Market can systematize for the most effective and efficient solutions. The Davos-rendered solutions via “the Market”, we’re coming to understand, are combined under the Great Reset, its “Fourth Great Industrial Revolution,” and their pending and necessary global-wide surveillance-and-regulatory electronic system that will provide regulatory monitoring by a personal tracking and tracing technological system for systemic governance. Yes, the elite solution requires a technocracy, and yes, it will be requird to be totalitarian in scope due to the limited effectiveness and operational efficiencies of human-devised systems. But does it not represent the best that can be hoped for at this moment in time?  While we first-world individuals may be finding it bothersome and disruptive to move en masse to the new, necessary globally-integrating regulatory and governing system, 2nd and 3rd world citizens may be finding new hope and new opportunities for parity and equality of shared resources for a diverse, sustainable future – a future that promises to elevate their existence on the planet.

On the other hand, has there been another or other ways? What if the only solution to emerge or that could have emerged for a globally-integrating system backed by an effective and efficient, global-wide governance due to past opportunities was or could have been the global governance by the Global Market? What if the chosen historical path with all its inequalities, injustices, oppressions, wars, murders, and deaths by superior military weaponries and technologies was in fact the only realistic path of least dis- or inter-eruption, the most minimal of unjust demands and least number of deaths of the innocent, and the most easily established integrative, global system? By historical and expert analyses, what if the expansion of the present global capitalist system has been the best way to homogenize and unify the world-wide variation of populations with their respective heritages, religions, aspirations, moral codes, polities, economic system, etc. for the best applied and achievable interpretation of the good and noble life? What if the early WW2 rationale of American government and corporate leaders; of American, British, and pro-Western economists, finance, and banking agents; and of multinational industrial kingpins for the prevention of more insane European wars that resulted in little, realistic gains in nationalistic competitions was, in fact, what has occurred in the establishment of the global Market of transnational exchanges and processes? Has this become the best possible outcome considering the available opportunities presented by historical relations and processes over the past 75 years? Perhaps.

Realistically, hoping and seeking for other answers seems fruitless if the world’s experts and leaders are to be taken at face value by their insistent, agreed upon commitments. Their message is: here we are now and we all must make the best of perhaps a less-than-hoped-for global system. If the world must be integrated and unified under some ideology or coerced system of managed governance, even though it must be technocratic and totalitarian, what other choices do we or contemporary global authorities of governance have? Perhaps in time the system will become more just, more egalitarian, more equitable, more responsive to the desires and needs of individuals. So goes the realistic, expert-derived, elite-funded argument, and their planned directives from “on-high.” Must we accept this future? Must we come to terms with the “elegant plan” they have devised? Must we shift to an acceptance of the disciplined but generous understanding they seek to impose? But what if…? But, God. To be continued…