A Prophetic Critique of Game Theory Model, Part 4

Fixing It

Starting with the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, fallen man has been granted an ever-brighter light of revelation on the path back. The bare trace in the wilderness became a highway, until the very living Incarnation of God’s self-disclosure Himself was born. God didn’t simply choose a nation, but created one from scratch, arising from a particular cultural background. Revelation cannot take place in a vacuum. Inscriptions on stone are not sufficient; it must be living and breathing, including the whole of what makes up a dynamic human identity. The ancient Hebrew world was the setting God designed for His revelation.

It’s not simply a matter of 2000 years. First, the Son Himself pointed out how the nation at that point had long previously slipped away from its genuine Hebrew identity. They were not true to Moses, much less Abraham. The teachings of Jesus were a call to return to a very different frame of reference, so for us it’s more like 3500 years. Plus, it’s 5000 miles, several shifts in language, culture and civilization, and a wholly different intellectual frame of reference.

Grace cannot be grasped by the human mind. It can’t be told, only indicated. Only a living spirit can receive it. Human awareness itself was broken by the Fall, disconnected from a living spirit. In His mercy and wisdom the Father provided the means to call us back to the place where His Spirit stood waiting to reunite us with our spirits. The shining beacon of truth is beyond the fallen mind, so God offered a lesser expression, something which could be grasped in the fallen intellect. It’s primary expression is in the Law Covenants — Noah and Moses — as indicators, something the mind could grasp as a parable of the unspeakable Truth of God the Person. To know God is to know His will; that is as much as any human can know of God. The Laws of God were within reach of fallen man, the merciful provision of a path to grace. Law is not the goal, nor the sum total of revelation, just a mere manifestation. But even with that, we have a massive gulf to span on our human level. The thread of revelation through human history included not merely a pile of logical propositions, as if truth could be objectified. Nor is is sufficient to say revelation is in the gestalt, the whole of it. It’s a radical shift in epistemology, of awareness itself.

It’s not the data, nor the software to process it, but an entirely new operating system and logic, because grace completely changes the hardware. It’s a whole new architecture. You can only port so much of it without starting from scratch. As long as you read Scripture from a Western mind, you will miss an awful lot. You’ll get that you have sinned, deserve to go to Hell, and that Jesus is your only hope. You will have only a very poor idea how to follow Him, though. To fix the problems described above requires a radical solution most readers are not prepared to contemplate. God’s solution is mandating a change in cultural in our frame of reference. So long as there is a Western Civilization, there will be no solution, no good human government.

Learning the justice of God means, in part, embracing the decentralized tribal lifestyle which is assumed by God’s Law Covenants. No other social structure will do as much to maximize the variability and uniqueness of humans. A tribal culture makes no room for Alphas because there is no cohesive Beta class. There is no means to amassing that sort of power. Tribal elders are contextual Alphas in effect, but seldom with the underlying personality traits, since there aren’t that many genuine Alphas in the first place. Deltas and Gammas in a tribal society are too often pushed into the Alpha role, and it changes them. They won’t easily be demoted to Beta status, though. This is in part because their fundamental responsibility to their families, their tribal constituency, keeps them sensitive. Unaccountable and arrogant elders, which real Alphas would be, tend to get into too much trouble, because tribal cultures don’t permit unquestioning loyalty and conspiracies; too many different folks are jealously guarding their decentralized prerogatives as their duty to God.

Sigmas, Omegas and Lambdas are less likely to arise because virtually no one is permitted to be isolated. Close-knit families are like that, sticking their nose into your business. Truly different or odd people are kept inside the human society by family care and constraint, because the family as a whole is accountable to other families.

Since women are not forced to work out their own mating choices alone, the whole female hierarchy and competition is sublimated. That is, social controls make chasing an Alpha utterly forbidden. Instead, every other man is encouraged to manifest a little Alpha. The merry-go-round never completely goes away, but its rare because its scandalous; personal costs are too high. A woman’s attractiveness is evaluated differently, and may be irrelevant to her status. The mating instinct is regulated. The market is controlled, but not necessarily by males only. The nature of things prevents a pure patriarchy. A biblical society distinguishes between social and civil government. While men dominate the latter, they are not permitted to rule the former. It’s the wiring issue. Women cannot be kept out of social matters very long, and men invariably bungle it.

The single greatest failure of the modern nation-state government is absorbing social issues into civil government. This always happens incrementally, slowly corrupting any form of government. Western Civilization in particular has no resistance to this cancer. As opposed to the Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) form of civilization, the West emphasizes tangible property over persons. Even people are viewed as a form of tangible property, versus their value as humans. Thus, women are chattel, and their rightful place in social government is denied. But the wiring doesn’t go away, so women find other ways of asserting their power, which naturally requires leveraging their way into civil government in order to exercise their social instincts. Women are not wired for civil government, and we now see the horrors of what their presence brings in much of what is wrong with our world today.

The broken system, with the false social hierarchies we have now, is the result of our inability to even conceive of God’s plan.