At some point we might also go through some of the cultural baggage and see what might be impeding our progress, as well.
For example, a spiritual absolute would necessarily be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it.
The father figure lawgiver is a useful social device for getting the attention of a fractious population, but it's also a political tool to validate top down authority, far beyond where it's effective.
Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as they symbolized a more multicultural element. To the Ancients, monotheism meant monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.
The Romans adopted and co-opted gnostic Christianity to be the state religion, as the Empire solidified and remnants of the Republic were buried.
When the West went back to less centralized political systems, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.
Reality does tend to be a balance and tension of opposites, so when we try framing it through a monolithic lens, then one side must be right and the other wrong.
Consider that good and bad are not actually some cosmic battle between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. What's good for the fox, is bad for the chicken.
Trying to find an ideal good is like trying to find the perfect yes.
When we treat good as an ideal, than the only alternative is bad and all the higher order nuance, complexity and subjectivity is suspect, in the race to the bottom of us versus them.
Any society that ever existed has liberal and conservative aspects. Those supporting and enforcing civic and cultural norms and those pushing the boundaries. It's as basic as the energies of youth and the experience of age. When it becomes the basis of a civil war, there are no winners, it's just a social forest fire, burning down everything.
A large part of the problem is that while government, as the executive and regulatory function of society, is analogous to the central nervous system, money and banking, as the value distribution system, are analogous to blood and the circulation system.
So when this system is being used to siphon value out of the community, rather than circulate it effectively, it is ultimately fatal. When these forces are using the natural divisions in society to divide and conquer, even they come out losers, because they also depend on a system of laws, underlayed by moral codes, to function.
There was a time when government was private and now banking is having its own, "Let them eat cake." moment.
Meditate on that.
