It’s strange that in a world of increased individuality, customization and personalization we have a one-size-fits-all national government.

The idea of our Federalism was a nation of small personal cities combined into personalized states united by a national government on a few big things namely “The British are coming!”. But ever since Abraham Lincoln forced his way on the South there has been less and less personalization and more and more big central government. Humanity is both diverse and unified, like our God three and one. Modernism was the overemphasis of the ‘one’ aspect. We built factories that made millions of cars exactly the same, it was efficient and we were all unified. We built giant multipurpose stadiums that were plain and boring because they were meant for everything, that is nothing. Postmodernism began to get tired of this, so they overreacted the other way. We are not all the same we are all different. There is almost no unity in Postmodernism, each man is an island. Everyone dresses how they want, and even thinks that sex and marriage are personalizable. Except for our government. Our government is on size fits everyone. Every area of life that the U.S. government takes over is one less thing we decide locally, individually. You literally can’t squat in the woods without the U.S. government having a say in it. Even the forth branch of government the media has become central. How many comedians make fun of ‘local’ broadcasts all parroting the exact same narrative. Personally I would just like to go back to 1776, you will all appreciate it.

We do the same thing with individual laws.  The system of law that Moses put over the people of ancient Israel and the systems that have ruled over the prosperity of the west, were case law system.  There is a standard of law often written, and every time there is a dispute the law is applied to the situation by wise judges or a jury.  This mirrors the way our God works.  There is a standard that is greater than us to which we must conform.  The law is one in principle many in it’s application.

But today every time there is a conflict, instead of applying a transcendent law to the situation we pass a bunch more laws binding on everyone.  Instead of realizing that stealing computer files is the same as stealing has always been, we pass millions of pages of laws to forbid every type of specific this or that.  The web grows so large that it entraps people it was never meant to, and it is nearly impossible for anyone to actually know the laws they are under.  Now anyone who the government decides to go after can be gotten on any number of things.  There is no longer justice, there is no longer a rule of law but a rule of man, whoever that man happens to be.  Whatever the people in power want they get, and everyone else be damned.

We do it with deviant behavior and abnormalities as well.  When someone is born with this or that deformity instead of realizing that it is the exception that proves the rule we change the rules.  If someone is born with both sets of genitals we decide genitals are a choice.  We create a new standard that we can all be under instead of realizing the diversity mixed with sin that is the reality of this world.  If certain people perform below or above the normal in a certain area, we change the normal to include everyone.  We cripple those above and lower the standard on everyone for those below.  Instead of realizing the blessing of diversity in humanity, we want to make everything the same.

This is all very strange in a culture so obsessed with individuality.  But perhaps it’s more about self than the individual.  It’s more about spreading the evil of selfishness, by whatever name, than it is about any real search for peace and harmony.  The devil is fine with using whatever he can to bash the Christian standard, whether or not he contradicts what he used the day before.  All in all we need to get back to the height of civilization that was the end of the Medieval period.  We need to regain the balanced understanding of our Trinitarian God.  Three and One,  Diverse and Unified.