Methods And Power as Accomplishment, Commentary as Distraction

I have no worthy commentary to add to this powerful insight within this "fictional" paragraph. This is why I quote so much on this blog... I've not much good to add to this great stuff I encounter. My commentary is a distraction Adam's conversation with Michael at the foot of the twisted bastard tree.....

"This is why authority and power are so alluring and so damaging in the world. When one is driven by selfishness and wields power over another, what is the inevitable result?" he asked rhetorically. "Not everyone can control. You share a world together. The unavoidable outcome is perpetual competition. And, ultimately, the only way to get anything done is to create structures where power and control are clearly defined. Think of kings and queens and CEOs and popes and senior pastors and presidents and managers; this is how the world is organized, and it is also why Gabriel spoke of the towers of Babel as he did; for there is a better way. "You see, religion is sometimes like the world: always trying to create a newer and better model. Constantly striving to fix all the problems the fall created with their own creations. Religion just spiritualizes this quest to justify itself; for it's all being done in the name of God, and for his sake. Can you not see that though they call it freedom, it can still be bondage? No matter how well the new model appears to work, the heart can remain dead within; for models are often mechanisms to manipulate the deepest longings and needs of men. No model can fabricate intimate communion. It requires mutual surrender, true abandonment. Only in communion with love, with him, will you begin to find freedom. At their best, systems can help clarify the work abandonment is already doing; but at their worst they impede abandonment altogether and create an illusion of progress; they can become a surrogate for vulnerability and intimacy. But it is in abandonment, vulnerability, and intimacy that grace is found."

(The Bastard Tree. M. C. Lang. Pg 239)