This order is usually conceived as a divine order that is well intentioned toward human beings and is working for their well-being as long as they are willing to insert themselves into it, to follow it willingly, and not to upset it by perversion or rebellion.
But the idea that many debacles flow from choices made by decent, well-intentioned human beings is more difficult for us to wrap our minds around.
Senator Schumer's decision, like other well-intentioned human operators in complex systems that are constantly processing information and making decisions, is not immune from (human) error.
Even now, I have to remind myself consciously that the strategic decisions on cap and trade were made in good faith by fallible, well-intentioned human beings.
You had a "casus belli" about which the president, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and sundry other decent, well-intentioned human beings, knowingly lied, catastrophizing and sowing fear for no other reason than to advance this pre-determined agenda.
Is it the killing and maiming of U.S. soldiers in an action that, while ostensibly (or so we were told, by the decent, well-intentioned human beings who knew it wasn't true) retaliating against a force that attacked us on 9-11, in fact attacked a country completely unconnected to that event?
The three attributes, however, are all essential for the concept of providence: the divine being or beings must be well intentioned toward humans, must have the necessary wisdom to know what is good for humankind, and must have the power to act on this intention and insight.
They also wouldn't have the emotional and mental limitations even the most well-intentioned humans have.
The two have strangely a lot in common: cults, dogged belief systems, well-intentioned humans, and a surprising amount of violence.
If a relatively small number of even very well intentioned people unleash a human genetic revolution that will ultimately touch most everyone and alter our species' evolutionary trajectory without informed, meaningful, and early input from others, the backlash against the genetic revolution will overwhelm its monumental potential for good.
The result is still a work of literature that a human author intentioned and I think the burden of extracting meaning is still on the reader.
