In Part 1 we briefly touched on the modern problem of the apotheosization of Technique; many moderns look to technological progress as a kind of god that will always come through in the end to solve all our problems. A kind of religion of materialism (in both the philosophical and moral sense) has crept into the developed world, and its high priests (Gates, Schwab, Harari, etc.) are threatening its votaries with a permanent technocratic dystopia, on display for all with eyes to see during the Covid crisis.
One moral response to this is retreat to primitivism, the essential approach of the Amish, for instance. This may, in the end, turn out to be ultimately necessary, and we’ll have no choice but to horrow from the Amish template, but I have suggested that our problem is not with technology itself, but with technological research and development unmoored to moral restraints. Once again, consider the vaccine issue of Covid, which is still wrapped in a mystery that is slowly being unravelled as investigative scientists analyze the sordid undisclosed contents of these “vaccines,” and their use in a massive experiment on uninformed citizens.
A central theme of Recovenanting America is the adoption of the Levitical template of the universal, equable distribution of arable land among our entire citizenry, to be reflected in an expansion of our constitutionally recognized God-given rights to include a right to be a steward of the soil. The ramifications of this revolution remain to be developed and elaborated (there’s much in the pipeline on this issue), but I mention it here because two very recent developments have provoked my further writing on this question since Part 1 of this essay was written a couple of months ago.
The first is this recent interview of humanitarian par excellence Vandana Shiva by Russel Brand, no slouch himself: “THIS is how we beat the Great Reset”
This is the clearest, most cogent articulation I have yet seen that globalist agenda includes a direct attack on the institution of small-scale farming. This being the case, it follows that the best defense against globalists is to fortify that sector of the economy which, we must tirelessly argue, means to universalize it. Whilst agreeing that we must support those engaged in small-scale farming in the interim, as they are under extraordinarily virulent attack by the globalists at present, I do not believe this battle can be ultimately waged through proxies alone...we all need some skin in the game to effectively counter the globalists, and that can mean nothing short of a universal right to stewardship of fairly distributed arable land. I have never seen this truth more clearly demonstrated.
Now, back to the question of technology: we have all had the delightful experience of having one of the social media platforms zeroing in on our interest and providing increasingly useful links to puruse it, what we might call “algorithmic serendipity.” And we can easily imagine what a wonderful place the Internet would be if everything operated this way. But of course, it does not. It does not because once a small group of corporations gain virtual control of data and search algorithms, the temptation to monetize or politically control these processes are way too strong for weaker souls to resist. What was it again that Lord Acton famously said about power corrupting? LOL.
The same is true of high tech development generally: short-sighted environmentally destructive, socially harmful, physically debilitating products fly out of research labs and land in the field of commerce every day, leaving the rest of us to clean up their mess.
But just because technological development has proven such a thin reed to lean on does not mean that no good can come from it. And here is a case in point that just this week sent shock waves through the scientifically literate quarters of the world: This weekend, as I write these words, a new company called Brillouin Energy is giving a demonstration at a Cold Fusion conference somewhere on the West Coast of their scalable nuclear fusion generators. They believe their product is ready for mass production, and each unit cleanly emits 2.7 times the amount of energy it takes in! The revolutionary implications of such technology would be hard to overstate, and I will return to this point in closing, as it touches our vision for a decentralized future.
Readers may be forgiven for any skepticism as to these claims or to the viability of this product’s mass production, but Mike Adams (a.k.a. “The Health Ranger”), whose broad-ranging scientific acumen far exceeds my own, avers that it is all on the level, that the demonstration will succeed, and that eager capital investment will follow. Mike gives a very good summary of the technical side of this cold-fusion technology on his July 21 Situation Update: https://www.brighteon.com/6e4932e4-26aa-4585-a5d6-ac24b9b3f4f7 . Readers may also wish to visit the company’s website to learn more (https://brillouinenergy.com/)
But back to the Recovenanting America vision, just imagine what this may make possible: every American family living on its “homestead” of farmable land, with its own off-grid, clean energy production unit, producing enough energy to satisfy household needs and fuel farm implements, not to mention running irrigation systems and keeping year-round greenhouses toasty warm! The sublime fulfillment of biblical prophecy (Micah 4:4): “Everyone will live in peace among their own vineyards and fig trees, and no one will make them afraid. The LORD Almighty has promised this.” Amen!!