Power and authority have always been and will always be temporary illusions, all that really exists are layers of incentives that will eventually lead all things back to mirroring natural systems.
Discussion
I appreciate this way of thinking. Temporary Illusions make sense to me as Temporary Rationality - that which binds the complexity as stable to us and informs our ability to communicate. Understanding the layers of incentive that drive action (all action, not just human action) does not come from reason. More than etymology relates the Theological, the Theoretical and the Theatrical.
I agree, especially that reason does not drive most action. I do not believe we are even close to understanding the fundamental fabric of reality and that most of observed scientific fact (even from a physics standpoint) is emergent rather than fundamental. I think that reason my not drive as many decisions as we think it does but it does create the water of reality that we swim in. In that sense it may be the thing most tied to theology and the least tied to modern science. It seems that science may be emergent and reason is fundamental, it’s just hard to prove something is fundamental through an emergent process (scientific).