The author's perspective is easily understood from a simple word study of KOSMOS. The greek word means "world" or "a making of order out of chaos". Unbelievers and even believers who slip back into carnality, may tend to make order out of chaos about them independent of God, thereby in a sinful fashion. Such thinking has been studied and described as a "Cosmic System" of thinking. The first stage of Cosmic thinking is to rebel from God. If not changes, this stage will degenerate into a second stage of cosmic thinking where the person attacks the plan of God.
One consequence to worldly thinking independent of God, is that the worldly thinker begins to scar their own perspective of the natural order and how they shall behave to shape their own world for themselves and others they recognize. There is a natural consequence to then attack reality when it doesn't match their mental constructs causing them frustration. They tend to react, rather than respond.
The hitech worldly person can be very scary. Such a person believes they are able to counterfeit a paradise independent of God, but proceeds further to then perceive any other person who doesn't share their perspective as a threat to their world. Using the hitech tools at their disposal, such cosmic thinking leads to situations such as 9/11, but with the operational efficiency of the Holocaust.
The cosmic thinker has replaced the hope of Christ with the hope of a world created by man independent of God. Whereas a believer in God through faith in Christ has been given eternal life by the creation of a human spirit and has his first hope realized with continueing hope in rewards in heaven, the unbeliever retains hope only in a worldly system as a counterfeit for life and a future paradise.
The thinking within the cosmic system naturally leads to first rebeling from God, then degenerates to attacking Him and His plan.
This article nicely manifests the behavior of a cosmic thinker as is taught in Scripture.
That explains much. Thanks.