Whenever there is an Ism at the end of a word it becomes an ideology, a Worldview, a fundamental presupposition and assumption of all reality.
So Individual simply means an Individual human being separate from others, but Individual-ism then is an ideology, related to other ‘isms’ like Capital-ism, Secular-ism, Global-ism etc. So it is with Socio-political Utopian-ism which you could put under the broader umbrella of Global-ism.
So lets just briefly explore a definition of Socio-political Utopian-ism before we apply the Title ‘The Mastery of Man and Matter’ to the 21st Century, in particular to Western Culture.
Utopian-ism relates directly to Empires throughout history that have tried to enforce a kind of Globalist centralised empire throughout the whole world. This would include for example, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, The Roman Empire, the Ottoman empire, the British and the Anglo-American empire. In Daniel chapter 2 in the Old Testament, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon’s vision of a huge statue is foretelling the next three empire after Babylon (Medo-Persian, Greek, Roman)
Historically, humanity divided into two diametrically opposed camps>
A spiritual theistic worldview and a non-spiritual material theistic worldview. The Anti-Theistic and Anti-spiritual worldviews are designed to relocate the Eschaton/the end of history within the physical realm at the same time. The result is a controlling ideology devoted to the transformation of the physical world and a secular religion devoted to the deification of man (generic term meaning ‘humankind’)
Socio-political Utopianism means that ‘Science’ represents a special ‘Gnosis’ (knowledge) designed to Master both Humanity and physical matter.
According to Phillip D. Collins, author of The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship, uses the term ‘Techgnosis’ which is about Scient-ism and Technology mastering nature. Collins says in his paper ‘Nothing Beyond the Flesh: The Theocracy of Prima Materia (Physical Matter) that Francis Bacon (an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I) believed that the defining feature of history was the rise and growth of Science and Technology.
Whereas Plato had envisioned a society governed by ‘philosopher kings’, men who could perceive the ‘forms’ of social justice, Bacon sought a Technical Elite who would rule in the name of efficiency and technical order.
So now we have moved into the crucial category of ‘Technocracy’ which is essential for us to understand. As Patrick Wood says in his book ‘Technocracy Rising, the Trojan Horse of Global Transformation in the Preface “The dark horse of the New World Order is not Communism, Socialism or Fascism. It is Technocracy.”
Furthermore, to understand Technocracy further, not only read Patrick Wood’s book on Technocracy, but research ‘The Trilateral Commission’ co-founded by David Rockefeller and Zbignniew Brzezinsky. These two guys Wood says chose about 250 elitists from North America, Europe and Japan in order to create a ‘New International Economic Order’ (NIEO). The inclusion of European and Japanese members indicates a Global government rather than a national government. Tri-lateral refers then to these three regions of North America, Europe and Japan.
As Patrick Wood points out on p9 of his book that it became
“increasingly clear to me that the Trilateral Commission’s original goal of creating a New International Economic Order might actually mean abandoning status quo economics in favour of a completely different economic system of Technocracy”.
Could this be the CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) that most Western Governments sold out to the Globalist Technocratic World Economic Forum are committed to. Keir Starmer the recently ‘selected’ Prime Minister of Britain is a member of The Trilateral Commission, which of course means that he is a committed Globalist whose real allegiance is to the Oligarchy that runs the West. I wonder if the term ‘Globalisation’ is really a subtle euphemism for Technocracy?
Although the philosophical underpinning of the Trilateral Commission appears on the surface to be pro-Marxist and pro-Socialist but Patrick Wood argues that this is only a stepping stone leading to Brzezinsky’s and Rockefeller’s Technocratic society. A horrendous Panopticon Dystopian Artificial Intelligence Totalitarian Dictatorship….where the end game of the Globalist Oligarch elites is the mastery of Science and Technology over both humanity and the physical world….
The objective of Scient-ism that assumes to be the final authority on all of life combined with Technocracy where the Machine takes over all of life- is rooted in the theory of Evolution. The merging of the Digital with the Biological is such a freaky thing to even think about, but this is the Reality of the trajectory of the unseen power elite that run the West. In short, after the Enlightenment Age of Reason during the 17th/19th centuries Nature became a ‘god’ that replaced the one true Creator God who is both Transcendent and Immanent (upholding Creation through His Logos/Word).
Man became ‘the measure of all things’ and replaced the Creator, just as Romans 1v25 states ‘They exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshipped the creature rather than the Creator’. Therefore there is nothing Neutral in all creation, you either worship something from within creation or the creature, or you worship the personal infinite Creator God. Culture from the Latin means ‘Worship’. Culture then is a form of ‘Religion Externalised’. What does Western Culture worship? What does the Oligarchy worship and define itself by?
Tim Keller a Christian minister who is now dead once said that an idol is
“anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs our heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give. It is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it your life would feel hardly worth living”
Idolatry subverts our true identity that is derived outside of ourselves from our Creator. We were created in the image and likeness of God as relational, social, communal, moral, creative, volitional beings. God shared His power with humanity by giving us a mandate to ‘Be fruitful and multiply, subdue and have dominion’.
Does the power elite, the ruling classes, the plutocracy, the Oligarchy share their power with the rest of humanity like the Creator God did when He created us in His image and likeness.
‘Nature worship’ is nothing new. As Phillip D. Collins says in his paper
“As antiquity gave way to modernity, this religious worldview eventually provided a conceptual segue for the enthronement of scientific materialism, which is a form of pantheism”
Eastern Pantheism believes that ‘All is spiritual’ and even denies physical reality. Secular Humanistic Pantheism believes that ‘All is Physical’ for there is no spiritual realm, and yet Science and Technocracy trying to merge humans with machines is intrinsically religious because it is about the ‘deification of man’. This is what it means to be in modern day Babylon, which I will explore next time……