ABSTRACT
The introduction provides an outline of the key themes of the work. Foremost among these is that we do not understand the present, as there exists an obscured complex of dynamics which has shaped the history of the West since its inception and which remains active today. This complex not only explains the current disruptions across the fields of contemporary religion, politics, economics and emerging artificial intelligence, but also how these disruptions derive each from originary sources. That is, this work explains the manner in which this complex has functioned across historical time and also why it is that its inherent, unresolvable flaws have triggered the shifts between these key fields, as well as the intractability of these present disruptions. It is this flawed complex of factors that has led to current conflicts about abortion reform, political populism, the failure of neoliberalism and the imminent quantum shift to generative artificial intelligence. In this, law is heavily implicated, especially at the constitutional level. This complex of dynamics is also an available explanatory tool to understand the poor global response to the range of widely acknowledged present existential risks. This work does not propose any global solution to these challenges as its principal concern is the forensic examination of the root causes of all these disruptions. It does provide a toolbox of ideas which might be helpful in addressing these challenges, which readers in these fields may find of particular relevance.
