I don’t know if there is an answer on this earth, a secret to overcome this state of universal seeking of power. The closest approach to an answer is the Gospel: a worldview based on simplicity, nonviolence, and nonidolatry of all things except God. That puts us outside every system of control and power. It seems that cultural structures are naturally skewed in favor of power, prestige, and possessions. That seems to be human culture at its worst, but also human culture in its universal state. Without grace, culture (“the world”) seems inevitably to follow the other universal law — gravity.
