Chronicles of Diversity

Chronicles of Diversity
Evolved Units
7 June 2006; Volume 8, Issue 19

PDF link: http://www.wondersprings.com/2006pdffiles/evolvedunits6-7-6.pdf

I believe that Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, at one time was quoted as saying something to the effect that if America was not judged by God for its immorality then God was not just. I in no way want to condemn that statement other than to mention, that the morality is not the way God truly finds His justice, but through the cross of Calvary.

What I want to focus upon this week is an other form of immoral behavior. These sins are not propagated by individuals per se, nor are they the sins of natural governments toward their people or the people of other nations. This week I would like to focus upon the sin of evolutionary global companies that exist outside of the constraints of established checks on wealth and power.

The gross sin of these global, unrestricted, mammon generators, is to take human beings, created in the image of God and turn them into evolutionary consumption or production units. The problem that these corporations face, that we are now just beginning to see seriously express itself in America, is how do you exploit human production units in one locale, and provide consumption units in another with the means to generate the mammoth profits you seek.

To a certain extent the problem that illegal immigration now presents in the United States is an outgrowth of this dichotomy. National leadership on both sides of the political isle are incapable of doing anything constructive. On the one hand you have politicians beholden to these powerful interests, on the other you have so called leaders being wind blown in all directions. But what none of them realize is that they really are now irrelevant to the whole picture. Neocons would like us to return to some sort of nationalism, but just like with communism, socialism, and other failed or irrelevant political structures, nationalism has also been usurped by these giants.

Now all of this is really just the result of atheistic evolution if you like that spin, or more bluntly human corporate sin, developed to a high level of credulous arrogance. The good news is that sin, especially at this level of blasphemy doesn't need to be judged by God, its destruction is just a simplistic model of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Eventually these institutions will be destroyed by God however. If you hold to the premillennial eschatology, either historic or dispensational, that will occur finally in the Great Tribulation period, just before the onset of Christ's millennial reign on earth. Those with less escapist and amillennial or preterist positions. this judgement could begin at anytime, but we probably are not to the point of when you see the fulfillment foretold in Revelation 18.

However, regardless of your eschatology I have always found the paragraph containing Revelation 18:4-8, as verses that should apply to the churches of all epochs:

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, "I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.' Therefore her plagues will come in one day–death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

Over the years Bible commentators have speculated about the mysterious identity of Babylon in Revelation 17 and 18. Some have speculated that it was a city or group of cities. Others have attributed these references to a world system of enterprise. Some have indicated that it can be both, still others admit that they really don't know, which is always the most prudent, even if it doesn't sell a lot of books.

It seems to me however, natural cities while not being the haven for righteousness, none the less have some righteous people living within the city walls. When the children of Israel took Jericho, Rahab together with her family were spared. When God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra, Lot and his family were led way from the destruction. But in both cases there was obedience in response to God's call on the part of those called. Those who were saved from the destruction however lost all of their worldly possessions, at least for a short time.

Now the traditional evangelical response is that we have to stay in Babylon to minister to the Babylonians, just as Lot did in Sodom and Gomorra? The real question however, who is doing the ministering? Most of the time I would say that the Christians are receiving more worldly culture from the city than they ever give back. Furthermore, what is given back from the church is not at all received by the city. But as Jesus said in the gospels, "let the dead bury their own dead," (Matthew 8:22, Luke 9:60) in much the same context.

The attraction of cities however, is really cultural, whether you call that good, bad, or indifferent. That culture by its very nature is diverse and multifaceted. I suppose that is just another way to say the city gods are really just a form of polytheism. The city also exists for the people to promote life and culture.

Our new global corporation is an evolutionary monster in comparison. As we said earlier, it is monotheistic, its God is money in all forms. People are not created in the image of God, but either are known by the monicker of production unit, or consumption unit. Modern global trade takes slavery to a whole new level, because it has no ties to reality.

It cares nothing about local infrastructure, other than as a market to sell goods produced elsewhere. Education is not a goal, but a demigod that doesn't keep the units in their place. Environmental controls are to be ignored by doing hazardous work in areas without any environmental safeguards. It's hidden agenda is to make all nations third world countries, better yet if they don't recognize the shift from consumer units into production units. After all, to the modern global corporation, people are really all the same, just part of evolutionary progress from rats to serfs. They are not at all like the personally evolved corporate management elite, for if they were, the peasants would be rich, like they are. This is really Darwin's evolutionary thoughts accelerated to light speed, or absolute foolhardy condescension.

How far are we down this road? If you look at recent exports from the United States what you see is a dramatic shift from high information products, to low information commodities and agricultural products. Most of our high information products are imported, not from other countries per se, but rather freed trade zones, supported by local country labor. Those rats of the production cycle.

A question for you to ponder. Has any large corporate manufacturing or service facility been built anywhere in the world recently without the local and or national government providing massive tax breaks, or incentives, or just required to pay no taxes at all?

Politicians say that is to create jobs, so that we can compete in the new evolving utopian world. When in reality it devastates any hope of local self sufficiency within the regional area or within the nation. If this evolution is not an absolute truth, we have no hope. If evolution is truth, we still have no hope, because life has no purpose.

Hope is really just a four letter word. Illegal Mexican and Latin American immigrants are not flocking to the United States for hope, they come for esperanza for themselves and their families, maybe not a higher goal, but at least a goal with a more romantic word structure. Likewise, when I was living in Germany, I was told there was only one beautiful word in all of the German language, that word is zusammen, that translates into the English together. I can not vouch for the fact that this is the only beautiful word in German, but it surely does have a certain zing to it.

Over the years many people have ask or tried to figure out my political leanings. I suppose now is the time to put some of those thoughts to paper, or you might think I am some liberal commie pinkie. Actually to the extent possible my political leanings are taken directly, as best as I can process, from creation. In that real world, bigness is either a form of what ecologists call a "pioneer species" or a type of disease. This usually becomes a malignancy that kills the patient if not checked, this time the planet we call earth, and or the social system we enjoy is seriously infected.

Therefore, politically I am against big business, big national governments, big labor, and egalitarianism. I am a strong advocate for small business, effective local government, and personal self determination. All of these concepts I am for, work only marginally in the world today, because the big mammon daddies control all the purse strings, and they will not loose them so that more diversity can be produced. Darwin was right in one means, natural selection does work, but humans only look at it in human time, not God's time, and especially evolutionary time.

The business religion today says that global free trade and markets are the means to promote (material) prosperity. Governments only restrict those opportunities, by wanting to provide infrastructure, education, and other services, better left to the private sector. But if you look at the ultimate root logic under all this flowery spin and hype, what is really being promoted is chaos at the expense of order. Simply because, and as my enterprise models show, pioneer species require chaos in order to grow and flourish and cancer is not all that different either.

Probably the next step is too look at how the monetary system is designed to promote this albatross, but we shall hold off on that till next week for lack of space and research.

In closing, laissez faire capitalism is probably the ideal evolutionary business condition. Essentially the French words mean leave it alone. That is the mantra of bigness today, it is recited continually in big business and big government, like Our Father's and Hail Mary's used to be, (perhaps still are) prayed in the Roman Catholic church. However, within the Roman Catholic structure the purpose was ultimately a petition to God. Within the multinational corporation the goal is truly the appeasement of the real, but still false god of wealth and power.

What free market economics is really saying ultimately, is that in order to have a modern garden of eden, the apple orchard will appear in due time in the right micro-climate. Furthermore, as these trees grow and produce fruit in a year or two, they will never have to be pruned. It is just an organic happening, like an evolutionary Woodstock, an eternity of peace and music. But while you today get your music on your iPod through iTunes, what you are really getting is the manufactured rather than the real event.

"In Wildness is the preservation of the world" is a truth of God's design, not evolution. This is what Thoreau and his other Transcendentalists were trying to promote in sterile nature of their industrial Revolution New England. They of course sought a sort of polytheistic natural god, because their churches preached a God evolved from the evolution of Calvinism and commerce. Not much has changed since Thoreau, except the economies of scale and hence an even more shaky underpinning of what we today call life and liberty.

Man has never been very good at regulating his business beyond the immediate, whether that be herding sheep, growing crops, or managing the wings of enterprise. Treating people as evolutionary units, surely is not going to provide any information to the management scheme to overcome this folly.

For some reason, pretty much beyond the comprehension of most of humanity, God also has chosen to use ordinary people, not members of the evolutionary religious, political, or business elite, to change the world for the better. Sometimes this is called a Reformation, sometimes we will use another "re" word. Normally that change takes place extremely rapidly, through stupendous change. Stupendous change is not a term that can truly be defined in the religion of evolutionists, because of that fatal flaw, they shall not be able to adapt to the blowing winds of change.

All is not lost however, out of the stones of the destroyed temple of evolution, can be fashioned a church that belongs in a land that always belongs to God.

Chronicles of Diversity is now available in blog form for your comments at www.diversity.wordpress.com. A somewhat related blog, Oikos (a dwelling place) is available at www.oikos.wordpress.com. This blog in time will deal with what I call conservative conservationism in contrast to what is generally called green sustainability.

It is my desire to eventually move these blogs into a new structure for both www.createleaders.org and www.wondersprings.com. God knows they both need it. If you can contribute to these changes in someway, financially or with your skills, or know of someone who could make that donation, please let us know.

In His Grip,
Jerry

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