True Universals Achieved Through True Particulars

Powerful technocrats actively push subjective and existentialist ideas to dismantle tradition, nation, and identity; framing our very identities as obstacles to progress. Internationalism, often hailed as a pillar of technocratic agendas, is itself a form of rebellion against divine order, a rejection of the cultures and histories that have shaped humanity for millennia. Nationalism is a source of unity, binding people through shared heritage and purpose. To dismantle nations is to erase the foundations of civilisation, reducing humanity to faceless masses devoid of roots or deeper meanings. This is not politics; it is existential. A nation is more than a collection of individuals: it is a living entity shaped by history, culture, and tradition. Destroying it replaces the organic with the artificial, the natural with the engineered, leading to a world where no one belongs, no one has purpose, no one remembers who they are, and no one is procreative in progressive ways.

This ideology, often presented as a solution to global strife, repeats the hubris of towering Babel: not through language but through the erasure of humanity’s humanity; dissolution of the science of progress in culture. It seeks to create a homogenised global order free from the burdens of history, culture, and tradition, yet its cost is profound. What is built in its place is a world without identity, governed by algorithms and technology geared to limit us more than serve us. This is not progress; it is regression and a return to chaos. The builders of Babel reached for heaven through their own mere mortal strength; today’s transhumanists seek to transcend humanity altogether, replacing the human body with machines, the mind with data, culture with the statistically stochastic, and the soul with code. This ambition is identical to the arrogance that led to Babel’s downfall: the belief that humans can create a perfect world without a larger picture in divine guidance.

Tradition is not the enemy of progress; it is foundational to any meaningful progress. Our societies without tradition are little different from bodies without immune systems. Without the wisdom of the past, we have no guide for the future. The rejection of tradition leads to a loss of identity and meaning. This is a bleak reduction of the depths in humanity to a series of data points in technocratic domination: a prison disguised as paradise. This is the ultimate form of tyranny: not through force, but through the erasure of what makes us human.

Existentialism, with its emphasis on individuality and the search for ‘subjective’ meaning, does still offer a contrasting lens. Heidegger’s philosophy, despite being often misunderstood, suggests this tension: the bridge between the sacred and the secular, the finite and the infinite. Without the underlying culture for the subjective exploration however, everything falls apart. The pursuit of truth through discourse is not merely intellectual but spiritual, a test of our commitment. Language, as a mirror of our knowledge and basic cultural understandings, reveals that only superficial communication stems from shallow truths, while deeper dialogue emerges from a recognition of our limits and a reverence for universal principles, from within the grand tools available to us through our particulars.

Christianity, at its core, offers a deterministic framework: the world is shaped by divine purpose, and even our struggles are part of a grand design. The subjective truths cannot be found in absolutism but rather in our individually imperfect approximations of true absolutes, which do exist regardless any contentions otherwise. The Tower of Babel was both a failure and a warning: a reminder that humanity’s greatest strength is in our capacity for dialogue, our ability to seek truth even in uncertainty, but that our premature overspecialisation (outside of fated particularised interpretations toward true universals) is not part of God’s plan.

In the end, the battle is not between tradition and progress, but between humility and hubris. To reject identity, culture, and history is to build a new meaningless overspecialised false universalism with destructive anti-universal ideology and technology. The path forward is firmly in embracing the diversity of human existence, honouring traditions as guides for the future, and seeking truth through dialogue, not domination. For in recognising our limits and revering the divine order that binds us, we find not only stability but the true meaning of progress: a world where humanity lives in harmony with its past, present, and future.