May Shalom be upon Stephen Miller
Posted: 08 Jan 2026, 17:29
I incidentally heard on TV yesterday, on January 7, 2026, the following statements expressed by Stephen Miller, a current official in the Trump Administration.
“We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
After hearing it, I couldn’t tell whether he was channeling his Commander-in-Chief’s thinking processes or if he was expressing his own innate thinking processes.
In my own innate thinking processes, I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he was channeling it.
Then again, I couldn’t be sure about it.
I can only turn away from the TV once more and utter to myself may Shalom be upon Stephen Miller.
This is because as a perfunctory student of ancient history, I have come to try to understand that Shalom is one of the markers when the earliest geniuses among humanity in ancient times reckoned with a barbaric world and stepped out to a civil world.
In my reading, they reckoned that reason is more powerful than force. They reckoned that method is more productive than spear.
In the span of time between the beginning of time and this era, there was a vantage point when the earliest geniuses among humanity reckoned with reason and method and decided to step out to the civil world.
In my reading and understanding, that vantage point was the genesis of civilization.
I failed to decipher that vantage point in Stephen Miller’s statement that strength, force, and power are “the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Failure to decipher that vantage point became my vintage that may Shalom be upon on Stephen Miller.
Shalom is not the only word I remembered. Namaste was another. I added to it the name Garda Síochána, the official name of the Irish police force. I kept going in my memory lanes of my readings, which compounded the vantage point I failed to decipher in Stephen Miller’s statement.
I would then fall back to imagining the path to which a crossroads of forces lead.
One doesn’t have to be Einstein to imagine in a motion of relativity that such a path would surely lead to a total annihilation of the space where the forces are allowed to be exercised if done in perpetuity.
Such a simple imagination would have me pay homage to the earliest geniuses among humanity that reckoned with the barbaric world and decided to step out to a new civil world in a very ancient time.
They understood why something called ሰዴ in the language of the Borana community in Ethiopia was an optimal stabilizer.
My reading suggests that the same word was carried on to become ዘዴ and later on method.
ሰዴ roughly means the three.
Whether the students of the first Renaissance who imagined the three branches of government for the U.S. studied about ሰዴ or if they miraculously reinvented it, the idea is the same.
The symbolic vantage point for the first Renaissance was Goddess Athena, which became the vintage for Thomas Jefferson, according to Stephen Greenblatt, the author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.
More recent studies have uncovered that Ancient Greece’s democracy borrowed ideas of equality from a prior presumably Ancient Egyptian civilization.
Among other things, this newly uncovered realization is the source for the call for the second Renaissance with Pharaoh Akhenaten, the father of the earliest recorded monotheism, as a new symbolic vantage point.
According to Sigmund Freud and Ahmed Osman, Prophet Moses was the great Pharaoh par excellence Akhenaten before the Exodus.
These anecdotes point to one thing, which would be uncovering the vantage point between the beginning of time and the Exodus when the earliest geniuses among humanity reckoned with the power of reason and method and decided to step out of a barbaric world of the forces of spears into a civil world of reasons and methods to make laws that guard peace.
Such an exercise wouldn’t start from a scratch.
It suffices to note an observation by the late Professor Donald N. Levine who wrote that the Borana people of Ethiopia have retained a tradition that reflects the most complex social organization ever devised by the human imagination.
It would be hard for me to think that an idea of such a complex social organization could be born without reckoning with the powers of reason and method following a genesis of a civil order.
In summary, these are several of the reason that led me promptly to say may Shalom be upon Stephen Miller after failing to decipher all these vantage points in his assertion that strength, force, and power are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.
“We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
After hearing it, I couldn’t tell whether he was channeling his Commander-in-Chief’s thinking processes or if he was expressing his own innate thinking processes.
In my own innate thinking processes, I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he was channeling it.
Then again, I couldn’t be sure about it.
I can only turn away from the TV once more and utter to myself may Shalom be upon Stephen Miller.
This is because as a perfunctory student of ancient history, I have come to try to understand that Shalom is one of the markers when the earliest geniuses among humanity in ancient times reckoned with a barbaric world and stepped out to a civil world.
In my reading, they reckoned that reason is more powerful than force. They reckoned that method is more productive than spear.
In the span of time between the beginning of time and this era, there was a vantage point when the earliest geniuses among humanity reckoned with reason and method and decided to step out to the civil world.
In my reading and understanding, that vantage point was the genesis of civilization.
I failed to decipher that vantage point in Stephen Miller’s statement that strength, force, and power are “the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Failure to decipher that vantage point became my vintage that may Shalom be upon on Stephen Miller.
Shalom is not the only word I remembered. Namaste was another. I added to it the name Garda Síochána, the official name of the Irish police force. I kept going in my memory lanes of my readings, which compounded the vantage point I failed to decipher in Stephen Miller’s statement.
I would then fall back to imagining the path to which a crossroads of forces lead.
One doesn’t have to be Einstein to imagine in a motion of relativity that such a path would surely lead to a total annihilation of the space where the forces are allowed to be exercised if done in perpetuity.
Such a simple imagination would have me pay homage to the earliest geniuses among humanity that reckoned with the barbaric world and decided to step out to a new civil world in a very ancient time.
They understood why something called ሰዴ in the language of the Borana community in Ethiopia was an optimal stabilizer.
My reading suggests that the same word was carried on to become ዘዴ and later on method.
ሰዴ roughly means the three.
Whether the students of the first Renaissance who imagined the three branches of government for the U.S. studied about ሰዴ or if they miraculously reinvented it, the idea is the same.
The symbolic vantage point for the first Renaissance was Goddess Athena, which became the vintage for Thomas Jefferson, according to Stephen Greenblatt, the author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.
More recent studies have uncovered that Ancient Greece’s democracy borrowed ideas of equality from a prior presumably Ancient Egyptian civilization.
Among other things, this newly uncovered realization is the source for the call for the second Renaissance with Pharaoh Akhenaten, the father of the earliest recorded monotheism, as a new symbolic vantage point.
According to Sigmund Freud and Ahmed Osman, Prophet Moses was the great Pharaoh par excellence Akhenaten before the Exodus.
These anecdotes point to one thing, which would be uncovering the vantage point between the beginning of time and the Exodus when the earliest geniuses among humanity reckoned with the power of reason and method and decided to step out of a barbaric world of the forces of spears into a civil world of reasons and methods to make laws that guard peace.
Such an exercise wouldn’t start from a scratch.
It suffices to note an observation by the late Professor Donald N. Levine who wrote that the Borana people of Ethiopia have retained a tradition that reflects the most complex social organization ever devised by the human imagination.
It would be hard for me to think that an idea of such a complex social organization could be born without reckoning with the powers of reason and method following a genesis of a civil order.
In summary, these are several of the reason that led me promptly to say may Shalom be upon Stephen Miller after failing to decipher all these vantage points in his assertion that strength, force, and power are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.