A robust, centrist movement

"It is almost impossible even now to describe what actually happened in Europe on August 4, 1914. The days before and the days after the first World War are separated not like the end of an old and the beginning of a new period, but like the day before and the day after an explosion. Yet this figure of speech is as inaccurate as are all others, because the quiet of sorrow which settles down after a catastrophe has never come to pass. The first explosion seens to have touched off a chain reaction in which we have been caught ever since and which nobody seems to be able to stop. The first World War exploded the European comity of nations beyond repair, something which no other war had ever done. Iflation destroyed the whole class of small property owners beyond hope for recovery or now formation, something which no monetary crisis had ever done so radically before. Unemployment, when it came, reached fabulous proportions, was no longer restricted to the working class but seized with insignificant exceptions whole nations. Civil wars which ushed in and spread over the twenty years of uneasy peace were not onlu bloodier and more cruel than all their predecessors; they were followed by migrations of groups who, unlike their happier predecessors in the religious wars, were welcomed nowhere and remained homeless, once they had left their state they became stateless; once they had been deprived of their human rights they were rightless, the scum of the earth. Nothing which was being done, no matter how stupid, no matter how many people knew and foretold the consequences, could be undone or prevented. Every event had the finality of a last judgment, a judgment that was passed neither by God nor by the devil, but looked rather like the expression of some unredeemably stupid fatality." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 267). 

The world feels like it has entered into a period of prolonged instability. The secular humanism of the Enlightenment propelled by the insatiable logic of the Industrial Revolution is creating a modernity that is destined to spiritual collapse. 

Secular humanism is an explicit and direct eclipsing of God's face. The secular humanists are tempting fate. The religions are not up to the task of repairing the spiritual emptiness the established political systems are doomed to deliver. Only the movements that eschew secular government in favor of government by movement leadership are able to excite the people. The present day torpor of the political center is the result of the spiritual emptiness of secular humanism’s gripping and incapacitating the incumbent political leadership. 

The time is coming for a robust, centrist movement to take hold, a movement fashioned along the lines of a biblical regime where the energies of the masses are harnessed for the orderly conduct of a harmonious state and an autonomous, dignified civil society under the rule of a divine being.