Chika

Diaspora

It would appear that, at any given time, the careers that prove indispensable and highly demanding are those that sit at the crux of the age. I will explain.
If one were in nineteenth-century America, one would likely agree that politics—perhaps as a member of the political elite or even as president—would be the heart of where one’s career should lie, especially for the ambitious. Service in the militia, too, would have occupied a similarly central position. However, if we consider 2024 or 2025, it becomes evident that conversations surrounding war, nuclear armament, and artificial intelligence dominate the landscape of relevance.

Yet in the midst of concurrent global events and an influx of seemingly equally poignant issues unfolding worldwide, how does one determine which facet of human civilization truly stands at the heart of events? Is such a determination informed strictly by interest alone? By power and its structures? By incentives? By social strata? Or is it, more plausibly, an amalgamation of all these factors and more?
Let us also include instinct, divine intuition, and experience—classifying these collectively under the spiritual dimension of one’s intelligence. Prophecies, predictions, and forecasts may likewise be grouped within this category, whether they are informed by present data or historical precedent. After all, each represents an abstract pooling of intelligentsia, an attempt to anticipate the future and position oneself within it more strategically.
Having included this dimension, how then does one determine the guiding rails of decision? I contend that when human agency—the human factor, the man factor—meets what I will call the God factor, an infinite set of possibilities emerges, ad infinitum.
By the God factor, I refer not merely to overt “black swan” events, but to the broader realm of the unknown, the uncertain, and the unpredictable—the turn of events no expert, analyst, Princeton MBA, or political godfather could foresee. It encompasses not only dramatic disruptions such as pandemics or assassinations, but also subtler transformations—what might be termed “gray swan” events—like the gradual erosion of humanity against the backdrop of artificial intelligence and its many synthetic forms.
By contrast, the man factor, or human factor, encompasses the structured, measurable, and agentic elements within our control. What, then, is meant by their intersection? It requires one’s rootedness and deliberate action within the human sphere, coupled with an anchoring awareness of the God factor in all its potential manifestations.
Consider a captain of industry deciding which acquisitions his holding company should pursue. He must consult financial charts, examine industry reports, and maintain a firm grasp of long-term trends, historical indicators, and expert analyses. Yet even as he adheres to these directives of the human factor, he must remain cognizant that human agency, though powerful, is ultimately subordinate to the higher order in whose image it was made—even in its many contemporary distortions.

I am not proposing a blind subscription to the “grace” narratives. Rather, I am presenting the diaspora of components at play to the informed reader and saying: draw the line in the sand—do not bury your head in it. Keep your legs strong; remain in motion. But be receptive, even naive, before the supra-intelligence of the God factor. It takes a certain childlikeness to make such a lithe posture second nature. Yet it is the secret of stealth for those who thrive in tomorrow’s agenda while surviving today’s uncertainties.