The two pillars of the social order, the political and the economic, show up in their more threatening guise as the principal components of the military-industrial-complex. The Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment transformed government and commerce into more highly structured and more rigidly bureaucratic institutions that resembled mechanical rather than organic systems.
Along with the efficiency and the great scale of the mechanical came the loss of resiliency and a greater susceptibility to brutish governmental fury and unrelenting sumptuary excess. The problem of efficiency and scale that comes about with institutions going national can be met by a leader Who has divine power to protect the habits of mutual aid and civil society and to prosecute justice according to the values of desert. That is why He needs to superintend the national institutions of sanctity.
The irony is that men need the divine so that they can sustain the human scale.
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