The universe is not mechanical. It is a unified field of ecstatic creative intelligence, alive and permeating all reality. Not poetry. The structure underneath the structure.
There are first principles, true regardless of century. There are first values (dignity, sovereignty, eros, beauty) woven into the architecture of reality itself, not voted in by consensus and not erasable by any regime.
You are an aperture through which that field expresses itself in your particular shape. An irreplaceable piece of the grand mosaic, born with full creative capacity and the codes already inside your DNA.