Truth Over Tyranny: Biblical wisdom for defeating the Technocrats.
These are my insights for defeating the Transhumanist Technocracy movement, based on the teachings of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, of blessed memory, on the weekly Bible portion.
It’s hard to know what to believe these days, because the Technocracy movement has seized control over large portions of the news media. And they are determined that the masses believe the fate of Earth itself depends on surrendering our freedoms to the scientific authority of a “New World Order.”
In obeisance, the many “reporters” who toe the party line, routinely slant current events with one-sided arguments promoting the increased power and profit of the globalist Technocrats themselves. They propagandize that humans drive climate change, and every solution just happens to be a patented product that lines the pockets of the elite. For just one example, they advocate the masses eat fake meat products that they patent (and of course, not meat from real animals that they cannot patent. Yet.) Every step toward planetary salvation involves a patented resource. For the greater good, of course.
Yet, the death and destruction wreaked upon the masses reveals the true elitist intention. This scientifically designed “planetary salvation” is a planetary wealth transfer, aka the “Great Reset.” The elites have hijacked the world economy and bastardized the very concept of free markets, to promote a new system that benefits the elite family dynasties and locks out everyone else. It is a new mash-up of Scientism and Communism and Corporatism. It is Technocracy.
Fortunately, the social critics of today point this out on a daily basis. Who are these brave and wise people?
They are independent journalists; outsider political candidates; and rebel lawyers and physicians.
They are outraged parents; outspoken students; and activist people of faith.
They are people who are awake, not “woke.”
They speak the truth about what is happening in our world.
And they encourage us to preserve Righteousness by throwing sand into the gears of the Technocracy at every opportunity. Because every one of us is a partner with God in creating history, not just for us but for our children and grandchildren.
The social critics of today are carrying on the Biblical prophetic tradition that stems back to ancient times. We no longer have Great Prophets among us, but we do have prophetic truths. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks talks about the power of these truths in his commentary on Parshiot Matot, Masei called “The Prophetic Voice.”
https://www.rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/matot/the-prophetic-voice/
Rabbi Sacks points out that the Biblical Prophets were very much outcasts in their times:
“… The prophets had no power. They were not kings or members of the royal court. They were (usually) not priests or members of the religious establishment. They held no office. They were not elected. Often they were deeply unpopular, none more so than… Jeremiah, who was arrested, flogged, abused, put on trial and only narrowly escaped with his life. Only rarely were the prophets heeded in their lifetimes…”
But they spoke a timeless truth:
“… Yet their words were recorded for posterity and became a major feature of Tanach, the Hebrew Bible. They were the world’s first social critics and their message continues through the centuries. As Kierkegaard almost said: when a king dies, his power ends; when a prophet dies his influence begins. (Kierkegaard actually said: ‘The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.’ Kierkegaard, Papers and Journals, 352.)”
They issued warnings, not predictions:
“What was distinctive about the prophet was not that he foretold the future. The ancient world was full of such people: soothsayers, oracles, readers of runes, shamans and other diviners, each of whom claimed inside track with the forces that govern fate and ‘shape our ends, rough-hew them how we will.’ Judaism has no time for such people. The Torah bans one ‘who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead’ (Deut. 18:10-11). It disbelieves such practices because it believes in human freedom. The future is not pre-scripted. It depends on us and the choices we make. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded; if a prophecy comes true it has failed. The prophet tells of the future that will happen if we do not heed the danger and mend our ways. He (or she – there were seven biblical prophetesses) does not predict; he or she warns.”
They taught that history is something we create with God:
“… The prophets saw time as the arena in which the great drama between God and humanity was played out, especially in the history of Israel. If Israel was faithful to its mission, its covenant, then it would flourish. If it was unfaithful it would fail. It would suffer defeat and exile. That is what Jeremiah never tired of telling his contemporaries.”
That right makes might:
“… Somehow the prophets sensed – it is implicit in all their words, though they do not explain it explicitly – that idolatry was not just false. It was also corrupting. It saw the universe as a multiplicity of powers that often clashed. The battle went to the strong. Might defeated right. The fittest survived while the weak perished. Nietzsche believed this, as did the social Darwinists.
“The prophets opposed this with all their force. For them the power of God was secondary; what mattered was the righteousness of God. Precisely because God loved and had redeemed Israel, Israel owed Him loyalty as their sole ultimate sovereign, and if they were unfaithful to God they would also be unfaithful to their fellow humans.”
A nation becomes powerful if it has a strong ethical fiber:
“… The prophets have surprisingly little to say about politics. Yes, Samuel was wary of monarchy but we find almost nothing in Isaiah or Jeremiah about the way Israel/Judah should be governed. Instead we hear a constant insistence that the strength of a nation – certainly of Israel/Judah – is not military or demographic but moral and spiritual. If the people keep faith with God and one another, no force on earth can defeat them.”
Perhaps the most enduring Prophetic Truth is this: it is only when people enlist the help of a Greater Power, that great things can be achieved:
“Prophecy ceased in Israel with Haggai, Zekharia and Malachi in the Second Temple era. But the prophetic truths have not ceased to be true. Only by being faithful to God do people stay faithful to one another. Only by being open to a power greater than themselves do people become greater than themselves. Only by understanding the deep forces that shape history can a people defeat the ravages of history. It took a long time for biblical Israel to learn these truths, and a very long time indeed before they returned to their land, re-entering the arena of history. We must never forget them again.”
I will add this:
When seen in the light of Prophetic Truth, the endeavors of the Transhumanist Technocracy to take over the world are laughable. It is pure folly to pretend that you are a god and can run the world for your own selfish benefit. Their self-adoration, and conviction of their own “omnipotence,” are as corrupting as the false beliefs of any fake religion — and like all idolatry, will lead to its demise.
So the warnings of today’s social critics are not for them. They are for us: people who have not committed heart and soul to a path of self-destruction. People who choose to be “awake,” not “woke.”
People who will listen to prophecy over propaganda, and commit to partnering with a Higher Power.