Principality Autonomy

All principalities are by definition autonomous from one another. By design they seek their own means and ends that they alone design. As such these creatures are also autonomous from human (and divine) control. Put simply they exert an inverse domination. Traditions, institutions, ideologies, nations which are commonly thought to enhance human life in society, exert dominion over humans. From a Christian standpoint the work of these powers is the undoing of God's very creation. And it is with the gravest effort that principalities strive to place humans in their service. To the degree that humans find themselves doing so, they become idolaters. It does not matter whatever particular forms that may assume. This is not only dehumanizing, it is also in a very broad scriptural form, demonic. Examples of this include: the protection of bureaucratic routines at the expense of the human needs that those bureaus are meant to serve; imprisonment as a means of social banishment; forced urban development schemes; racial limitations of access; giving social priority to technological development; the neglect of human interests; various subtle forms of genocide; the fraud of merchandising.