Truth Over Tyranny.2: Biblical wisdom for defeating the Technocrats.
These are my insights for defeating the Transhumanist Technocracy movement, based on the teachings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (the Rav,) of blessed memory, on the weekly Bible portion.
The story of the Tower of Babel is prominent in Parashat Noah, the second portion of the Book of Genesis. Let’s look at some of the comments the Rav makes about this project, and see how they could apply to the projects of the Technocracy today.
This is how the Torah describes the start of this construction project. It was actually an effort by a band of people in power to build a city through which they could rule the masses:
“Come, let us make bricks… Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make ourselves a name…” Bereshit 11.3,4
The Rav calls out these people as “power-hungry” elitists. They wanted to rule the “ordinary man,” whom they held in contempt, and sought to feed their appetites even more by using industry to enslave and exploit the masses. This is exactly what has been done by the communist regimes of modern times:
“The construction of the tower represented industrialization. The society enslaved the individual, not to other individuals, but to the state, to the collective, to the group. Unlike the dor hamabul, the generation of the flood, who were not disciplined, since orgiastic man is never disciplined, the dor haflagah, the generation that built the tower of Babel, were disciplined and well organized. They had a strict political code. They were not weakened by abundance. Their character was not softened by overindulgence, by luxurious living. They were aggressive in their undertaking, bold in design, and arrogant in execution. The ideology of Marxism as interpreted by Lenin and Mao tse Tung could not have found a better portrayal than in these verses.” Chumash HaRav, Vol Bereshit, p. 66.
“…The dor haflagah (the generation that built the Tower of Babel,) with its apex touching the heavens, does not represent orgiastic man. The dor haflagah represented authoritarian man… The dor haflagah were a power-hungry band of fanatics who wanted to rule the heavens as well as the earth, scoffing at faith in God, human weaknesses, at the very idea of individual human dignity and freedom. This clique had utter contempt for ordinary man.” Chumash HaRav, Vol Bereshit, p. 67.
The Rav emphasizes that a hedonistic society naturally evolves into a tyrannical society. People who pursue nothing but pleasure are easy prey for an exploitative political class:
“Even though the Torah portrays the dor hamabul and dor haflagah ideologies as existing in two different and seemingly unrelated generations, it is nonetheless clear that a hedonistic society inexorably evolves into a tyrannical society. A pleasure-conscious individual is ready prey to the scheming of a power-hungry, evil mind. The dor haflagah thus necessarily followed the dor hamabul. In modern times, this is also what occurred in Germany in the 1930’s. Germany was an orgiastic society, seeking pleasure and enjoyment, where the flesh ruled and determined human aspirations and policies. It was an over-indulgent, permissive, hedone-drunk, flesh-intoxicated society that ultimately produced the dominion of evil tyranny and madness.” Chumash HaRav, Vol Bereshit, p. 67.
Of course, when people become wholly dependent on the state for the life they want, their individuality becomes lost. Their value to society becomes purely utilitarian:
“The generation tried to create a new social order and world order. In order to realize this ideal, they destroyed individual freedom, dictating to everyone what to do and how to live. Man became a slave, in a rigid inflexible world. he was disciplined, believing in a system contrived by man. This society gave preference to doctrine over preserving life, to utopian ideas over human reality. The value of man was not based on his spiritual essence, but rather, the number of bricks he could carry to the top of the tower.” Chumash HaRav, Vol Bereshit, p. 67.
The Rav’s interpretation of this Biblical story brings to mind the efforts of the globalists today to rule and enslave us. These include one world government and mass surveillance; digital ID and health passports; and central bank digital currency and social credit ranking.
Since the Tower City was an actual physical construction, a parallel can be seen clearly with their proposed “smart cities.” These “habitats” would embody many of the totalitarian features of the globalists — especially the connection between moral degeneracy and tyranny that the Rav shows us in the Biblical story. These would include:
… a ruling aristocracy that leads lives full of decadence and depravity.
… people “owning nothing and being happy,” so the corporate state can own and control all resources.
… the masses wholly dependent on the government for everything.
… living in a city under 24-hour government surveillance, and never traveling more than 15 minutes from your home.
… each person has a digital ID through which his or her every action can be controlled by the state, to ensure compliance with state ideology.
Details of this nightmarish collectivist vision can be found here:
https://www.freedomdefenseresourcecenter.com/category/depravity-corruption-trafficking-open-borders
https://www.freedomdefenseresourcecenter.com/category/arson-land-grabs-smart-cities
https://www.freedomdefenseresourcecenter.com/category/maui-hurricane-helene-palestine-oh
I would add this:
The Torah goes on to tell us that the Tower City construction project of Biblical times did not meet the approval of God. He saw how the elites had banded together to oppress others. He stopped them by breaking apart their centralized power:
“And the Lord descended to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built. And the Lord said, ‘ Lo! (they are) one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have commenced to do. Now, will it not be withheld from them, all that they have planned to do? Come, let us descend and confuse their language, so that one will not understand the language of his companion.’ And the lord scattered them from there upon the face of the entire earth, and they ceased building the city.”
Bereshit 11.5-8.
This should give us insights and encouragement in how to deal with the globalist tyrants we face today. Decentralization is key. The more we preserve national sovereignty, economic independence, cultural integrity, and individual freedom and liberty, the less power the technocrats will have.
They will be scattered across the face of the entire earth, and stop building.