Notably all of the major
political theory systems were constructed before the electronic era. Even the
major economic systems were invented before the first generator was sold. In
the post-industrial age such as has overtaken much of first-world civilization
political theory is lacking. Power structures tend to evolve toward
concentrations globally and ordinary people follow along. Its theoretical
foundation is a posteriori.
While the global economy is
integrating through communication and consumption, production, supply, demand
and marketing environmental overuse and abuse collaterally, inimically grow
too. Environmental degradation is a growth stock over the long run.
Much of the political
argument in the United States and elsewhere centers upon nationalism and
self-determination versus globalism, concentrated power and corporatism or
socialism. All of that misses the perspective as humanity as a bacterium in a
petri dish burning up its finite nutrient allotment. The limits of growth due
to entropy and resource exhaustion can be set back through technological
innovation yet the political will to accomplish minimal waste and maximum
efficiency in production is absent from anyone’s political party agenda.
Interestingly some believe
along the lines of Tegmark's Level 4 Multiverse concerning the creation and
change. Theology and cosmology in the field of theoretical physics draw
together quite well in that every possible Universe does exist in the mind of
God and in reality too. Necessarily God creates every possible Universe
compresently and never destroys anything. The past and future always exist in a
level 4 Multiverse and select theological ideas about God. It is just the conscious
human spirit that travels through these stack multiverse creations in every
possible moment of the existence of any Universe. For Christians God has
created human conscious spirit to sojourn through the experience of being as a
prep school for eternal existence with God. Those unsaved will have a
peripheral eternity without God that would necessarily be an eternal hell since
the maintenance would be likely to be rather poor.
Does the fact that the
entire Universe and Multiverse along with every human spirit is predetermined
have any impact on the global and national economy and its inefficient regard
for the Earth's ecosphere-primarily it does in the sense that the human spirit
has every reason to act responsibly and intelligently rather than being an
empirical hedonist indifferent to the decay of life on Earth.
The human species is always trying to grow and expand yet not at all well in political, ecospheric and philosophical intelligence. To surpass the limits of the petri dish nature of human development and sprawl humanity must master the art of planetary ecosphere science and technology and demonstrate that it can build thriving ecospheres off world-such as on the Moon, Mars etc. before it can have some assurance that it isn’t just deluding itself over an ability to repair the damage it has done to the Earth ecosphere that sustains it.
