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.
Many people describe the war against the globalists as being a “spiritual” war. They see it as being “good against evil;” of “God vs. demons;’ of “religious people vs. anti-religious people.” These characterizations could each be true, in a way; yet I think there is a broad idea of “spiritual” that many people can relate to.
The globalists want to break our spirit. They want us to feel so helpless, so demoralized, that we just give up. They want us to think we cannot win; that we have nothing going for us, so we might as well surrender to their sovereignty.
These fools have no idea just how strong the human spirit is, and how easy it is to keep our spirits up. Those of us who embrace “spirituality” know that we can harness tremendous power with the most simple of “spiritual” activities. One of them comes very easy to us: it is celebration. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks talks about the spiritual power of celebration in his commentary on Parashat Pekudei called “Celebrate.”
https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/pekudei/celebrate/
In the Parsha, the completion of the building of the Tabernacle in the Desert was an achievement that should be celebrated:
“If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they are capable of great things, and then they must celebrate their achievements. That is what happens at a key moment toward the end of our parsha, one that brings the book of Exodus to a sublime conclusion after all the strife that has gone before.
“The Israelites have finally completed the work of building the Tabernacle. We then read:
“‘So all the work on the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses … Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them. ‘” Ex. 39:32, 39:43
The celebratory blessing was for more than the completion of the physical work — it also heralded the partnership with God people have in the creative process. As such, it raised the spirit of the nation:
“A large and fateful idea is taking shape. The Israelites – who have been portrayed throughout much of Exodus as ungrateful and half-hearted – have now been given the opportunity, after the sin of the Golden Calf, to show that they are not irredeemable, and they have embraced that opportunity. They are proven capable of great things. They have shown they can be creative. They have used their generosity and skill to build a mini-universe. By this symbolic act they have shown they are capable of becoming, in the potent rabbinic phrase, ‘God’s partners in the work of creation.’
“This was fundamental to their re-moralisation and to their self-image as the people of God’s covenant. Judaism does not take a low view of human possibility. We do not believe we are tainted by original sin. We are not incapable of moral grandeur. To the contrary, the very fact that we are in the image of the Creator means that we humans – uniquely among life forms – have the ability to be creative. As Israel’s first creative achievement reached its culmination Moses blessed them, saying, according to the Sages, ‘May it be God’s will that His Presence rests in the work of your hands.’ Our potential greatness is that we can create structures, relationships and lives that become homes for the Divine Presence.”
This Biblical lesson has many contemporary applications:
“Blessing them and celebrating their achievement, Moses showed them what they could be. That is potentially a life-changing experience. Here is a contemporary example:
“In 2001, shortly after September 11th, I received a letter from a woman in London whose name I did not immediately recognise. She wrote that on the morning of the attack on the World Trade Centre, I had been giving a lecture on ways of raising the status of the teaching profession, and she had seen a report about it in the press. This prompted her to write and remind me of a meeting we had had eight years earlier.
“She was then, in 1993, the Head Teacher of a school that was floundering. She had heard some of my broadcasts, felt a kinship with what I had to say, and thought that I might have a solution to her problem. I invited her, together with two of her deputies, to our house. The story she told me was this: morale within the school, among teachers, pupils and parents alike, was at an all-time low. Parents had been withdrawing their children. The student roll had fallen from 1000 children to 500. Examination results were bad: only 8 per cent of students achieved high grades. It was clear that unless something changed dramatically, the school would be forced to close.”
There is ALWAYS something to celebrate — even if you are demoralized. Finding it could build momentum that leads to many more achievements:
“We talked for an hour or so on general themes: the school as community, how to create an ethos, and so on. Suddenly, I realised that we were thinking along the wrong lines. The problem she faced was practical, not philosophical. I said: ‘I want you to live one word: celebrate.’ She turned to me with a sigh: ‘You don’t understand – we have nothing to celebrate. Everything in the school is going wrong.’ ‘In that case,’ I replied, ‘find something to celebrate. If a single student has done better this week than last week, celebrate. If someone has a birthday, celebrate. If it’s Tuesday, celebrate.’ She seemed unconvinced, but promised to give the idea a try.
“Now, eight years later, she was writing to tell me what had happened since then. Examination results at high grades had risen from 8 per cent to 65 per cent. The enrolment of pupils had risen from 500 to 1000. Saving the best news to last, she added that she had just been made a Dame of the British Empire – one of the highest honours the Queen can bestow – for her contribution to education. She ended by saying that she just wanted me to know how a single word had changed the school, and her life…”
“Celebration is an essential part of motivating. It turned a school around. In an earlier age and in a more sacred context it turned the Israelites around. So celebrate.”
I would add this:
The globalists get their kicks by messing with our heads. They consider it a victory when they think they have us believing their doomsday BS.
The good news is that we don’t have to let them live rent-free in our heads. We can evict them right now. When we do so, we will find ways to push them our of our lives. Then we will have a cause for celebration every day.