Post 19 – The Fallacy of Reshaping Reality: Understanding Necessity

A Dubious Proposition: The Fallacy of Reshaping Reality

History is replete with well-intentioned efforts to reshape society (whether by spreading values, liberating the oppressed, or enforcing justice) that ultimately justified harm in the name of a “greater good.” This arises from a fundamental error: the belief that reality is flawed, malleable, and in need of correction.

Though the world may appear imperfect, this perception is a result of our limited, sequential experience of time. In truth, everything exists as it must (eternally so), including our misunderstandings and desires for change. The assumption that existence is deficient is nihilistic, as it denies the necessity and unchanging nature of Being.

To claim that the world must change is to imply that reality is contingent and alterable. But if this were the case, existence itself would be arbitrary and meaningless. Recognizing the necessity of all that is dissolves this misconception, revealing that nothing truly “comes into” or “goes out of” being; everything simply is, eternally.

The Illusion of Change: Understanding Necessity

The desire to change the world stems from failing to see its necessary, eternal nature. Change, rather than being an alteration of reality, is an illusion born from the mistaken belief that what is eternal can or should be different.

While change may seem real from the human perspective, it is part of the necessary unfolding of Being’s eternal structure. The world does not truly become something new; it merely reveals what has always been. Thus, even our perception of transformation, conflict, and resolution is already inscribed within the necessity of Being.

True understanding does not lead to resignation, but to acceptance. This does not mean passivity, but rather recognizing that the impulse to “fix” the world is based on the illusion of contingency. The world does not need repair; it was never broken.

The Resolution of Contradictions: The Necessary Dynamics of Being

The tensions of existence: good and evil, suffering and joy, error and truth; are not flaws in reality, but essential dynamics of Being. This view does not deny the experience of contradiction, but reveals that contradictions themselves are necessary elements of Being’s self-revelation.

Truth emerges not by eliminating error, but by transcending it. A new and better world is not a utopia created by human effort, but the inevitable self-awareness of reality itself. This realization does not come from intervention or progress, but from the necessity of Being’s self-revelation.

Change as the Unfolding of Necessity: Revealing the Eternal Truth

What we perceive as change is not the world becoming something different, but the unveiling of what has always been. The interconnectedness of all things inevitably leads to recognition: all beings, all experiences, are eternally necessary. Even suffering and contradiction are already part of their resolution.

This new and better world is the moment when Being’s eternal truth is fully revealed, dissolving the illusion of becoming. A loose parallel can be drawn to the theological vision of the Kingdom of God, but it is not something created or imposed by any effort; rather, it is the realization of an eternal order that has always been present: the necessary self-disclosure of Being itself. It is not something humanity brings about; it is something that has always been, waiting to be recognized.

The Inherent Necessity of the Earth That Saves: A Realization, Not an Ideal

The earth that saves (a term coined by philosopher Emanuele Severino) is not an ideal to be pursued through action, ideology, or progress. It is the inevitable realization of what has always been. Change, in this sense, is not the world moving toward something better, but the unfolding of its eternal truth: that all things are already interconnected, and love and unity are not goals, but fundamental realities of Being.

For those of religious faith, this vision resonates with the idea of a divine order manifesting itself, not as an external imposition, but as the self-revealing nature of reality itself. In this way, the earth that saves does not contradict the concept of the Kingdom of God, but rather offers an ontological interpretation of an idea traditionally understood in theological terms.

Ultimately, salvation is not something to be achieved, nor is it an endpoint to be reached. It is the necessary, eternal recognition of the truth that has always been present in the structure of Being itself.