The Wonder Springs Chronicle

Why Me? Divine Providence

7 April 2010

Volume 12, Issue 14

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Last week we closed the Sheep to Wolves article with the signature paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

If you would like to know the succinct answer on why the United States finds itself in its present predicament, a new version of those thoughts would go somewhat as follows:

With a firm reliance on the my personal virtue of unfettered greed, I will do whatever necessary to get ahead according to my definition of success, giving no thought at all to the pain and suffering I might cause other people, or the world in which I live.

Furthermore, to accomplish my goals as rapidly as possible, with the least personal risk, I will work for a large global corporation, institution, or government that shares my values.

Turn on the television to the lame stream media and you will hear that capitalism no longer works, so we need to replace it with diverse government programs that will solve capitalism’s problems.

These pundits have a religious bias that they alone think that they can fix something broken, with something better in their own eyes. When in reality their solution is worse than the broken predecessor. Welcome to the world of ObamaCare.

Turn on Fox News and you will hear pundits say that the solution is to get back to the messiah-ship of Ronald Reagan and that the free markets of personal and corporate greed will solve all the problems that the progressive bureaucratic regulators are using to try to keep us all from getting rich by the principles of trickle down economics.

The fact of the matter, little money and virtually no real wealth trickles down to the folks, through either big government, or big business, or big labor. Furthermore if any of them can figure out a way to get some of the little they let go of, back, they will do that with as much conniving as possible.

What we left behind with our sacred Honor at the beginning of the article was any thought about Divine Providence, or any consequences that the Divine Deity might use to judge or reign in our, to use a now archaic word, sin.

The Scottish Presbyterians and religious nonconformists who came up with the world-changing concept of capitalism did it within a worldview of the Divine Providence of the Invisible Hand. To substitute the invisible hand of clandestine money grubbing, for the Deity, and the whole system falls apart, essentially because clandestine money grubbing is the antithesis of natural law.

If you truly take time to understand the complexity of natural law you quickly begin to see that there are tensions built within the constructs that bring the abnormal into compliance with increasing true diversity. Priggish Christians are quick to pronounce the judgment of God upon unbelievers, when the active judgment of God is not necessary most of the time because natural selection eliminates the truly abnormal from the gene pool.

In other words, quantum leaps of evolutionary progressions are impossible within the realities of established natural laws. Hence they are the antithesis of not only nature, but also a Deity that is truly an Almighty, possessing alone the complex unity in diversity to put together functioning and self-regulating processes that allow life to exist and to flourish.

In 2007 we began the year at Wonder Springs with a three-month series on Stupendous Change, based upon the belief that even in a catastrophe some good will eventually rise from the chaos. We followed that series with another six part series on Business Ecology. A week after that began the two-month reality of stupendous change as I moved from Seattle to my place up on the Kettle River in Northeast Washington.

Later that year in mid September we started a series on Symbiotic Economics. That series continued into the year 2008 and ran through March, giving a total of fourteen articles in 2007 and twelve in 2008. There was no series to start 2009, for we had a new president and with the campaign slogan, “Change you can believe in.” there seemed to be little need for anything related to forecasting change, for change was all around us, pretty much all of it consider stupendous and dealing with economics.

That stupendous change continues, but through all of this I had no idea the changes we would now be talking about in the United States would take us back to the founding of the American Republic and be contrasted with discussions of Communism still being alive and well in the land of liberty. So as we begin April 2010 we see a stupendous clash between worldviews, the results of those struggles still in flux. However looking at the broader picture, the changes taking place are real miracle. In 2007 the concept of substance was found almost entirely in the stuff substance. In this brief interlude between then and now, the focus has shifted to a much more transcendent and important substance.

It’s a great miracle! And miracles always find their continuum, both intellectually and energetically in God. In mid November 2007 in the midst of the Symbiotic Economics there was an article on the “Dry Bones Valley” utilizing the Godly vision given to Ezekiel in Chapter 37. That seems like a good metaphor to what is now happening in the United States. Therefore only those who should be now gnashing their teeth are those who don’t believe that this country was founded by God, to fulfill a distinct purpose in these stupendous days.

So in the introductory statement, you either believe in the reality of the Divine Providence or you don’t. Essentially those who don’t believe have staked their eternal future on their hopeful lie that they are capable of figuring it out for themselves. To those who do believe that today is the result of a Divine indicative, all that is left is for you to provide your human imperative of Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor. Human honor is not sacred in and of itself, but rather becomes Sacred when it becomes a part of the God empowered human struggle for freedom and liberty.

I would venture to say that most people today don’t think in terms of their lives, fortunes, and honor to be worth a whole lot. But in order to make something valueless it must have some standard of comparison. In that light, your other stuff really has zero transcendence. Your stuff is made of wood, stone, metal, plastic, and that is pretty much it. You have your life something — your stuff never will. Furthermore you are even capable of enjoying your stuff. Your stuff just is. It doesn’t think and there philosophically it isn’t.

All of this is really just a refusal to believe in natural law, and this refusal has been preached on steroids in America since we tried to produce the Great Society and quench the domino effect by simultaneously fighting a war in Viet Nam. At that time the war effort maxed out at about four times the troop peak in Iraq, and at the same time build a new great progressive infrastructure at home.

Just like Obama, president Johnson didn’t create the mess; he just built on the foundation laid by the Camelot of John Kennedy. Johnson just kicked up Kennedy’s programs a few notches, as Obama has kicked up George W. Bush’s compassionate conservative agenda. From the ivory towers of Wall Street and Washington DC, they all believed that we could have it all and never pay the true price. Human iniquity had created the economic free lunch, ain’t life grand.

Natural law is best learned through apprehension rather than from reading. You can read those series we referenced earlier in this article and get a general idea, but it would be better taught through a couple of weeks immersed in nature. What should scare the hell out of America’s political and intellectual classes, is the Tea Party participants understand natural law in a way they shall never grasp, for Tea Party Americans have learned natural law through living their lives in the great American heartland, not the right and left coasts.

I heard again last night on the tube about the wonderful laurels of Ronald Reagan, how he through his defense initiatives forced the bankruptcy of the Soviet Union. What Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity don’t seem to get, or at least are willing to communicate, is that the Reagan deficits planted the seeds of the debt that have now become a monetary cancer, and were responsible for the Wall Street centered dismantling of the United States greatest achievements, the heartland funding of Main Street small business and our unique entrepreneurial infrastructure.

All of the present demise of American greatness is built upon the premise of cheap debt and markets that really are not free but manipulated by centralized financial planning, not done by government bureaucrats, as in communism, but rather investment bankers incestuous relationships with the Federal Reserve. When Barack Obama says he believes in free market principles, he is talking about a market in which too big to fail financial institutions are married to too big to fail government. It is not rocket science, but rather a mutual beneficial slush fund.

In case you think this is all unraveling, you are right. The real questions relate to how fast will it happen and what will be the bottom, before true constructive change will occur to rebuild. Probably the most interesting recent developments along that line are the lawsuits being filed by the states relating to forcing individuals to buy health insurance. What will march along side this states rights battle is the unfunded Federal mandate that the states need to pay for the expansion of ObamaCare Medicaid to cover the uninsured. This is somewhat a state sovereignty issue but more importantly an economic issue. What happens if the states just cannot afford the billions of dollars required, to pay these bills?

So when you turn on your television to get some news, you will see the same emphasis on essentially national solutions to local problems. The Fed created gazillions of dollars to prop up the world financial system, created basically so the whole world could be one big happy prosperous family of stressed out consumers. For some reason these normal guys never seemed to earn enough to pay for gasoline based upon $140 oil, or houses that cost four to five times their gross annual salaries. We have forgotten or are unwilling to create new wealth, so all we now do is borrow from the future to pay for hopes and stuff, we cannot afford.

We can thank our lucky stars that oil is now again pushing $90 because the Dow is now again pushing 11,000. The problem is, “That type of hopey, changey stuff isn’t really workin’ out for ya! Is it?” Needless to say, there is no absence of well paid pundits and book authors to tell you that they have a solution and for some reason they don’t even have to fund there own infomercials to promote their expertise.

We began this article and ended last week’s article quoting from the closing of the Declaration of Independence. The events now taking place in the United States will again force us to look to Divine Providence as the source of our protection, and we don’t need a new “Contract with America.” for federal politicians. We don’t need American citizens to sign a petition to get involved, but rather make the commitment with their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, to again write history instead of just let others talk about it.

The old all American breakfast is really the simple solution. With a ham and egg breakfast, the pig is committed, the true chicken is only involved, but the fire is hot enough to grill them both.