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 has become pretty clear that there is no room for the traditional family in the technocracy the transhumanists want to impose. We can see this if we connect a few dots:
They want the government to “care” for us from cradle to grave — not our blood and extended families.
They want ideological compliance to determine our social status — not connection with any ethnic, religious, or national group.
They want our duty to serve the state to be our primary obligation — not any feeling of responsibility towards other people.
They want their “scientists” and labs to promote the evolution of our species — not normal reproduction, in a sanctified relationship.
They want biotechnology to determine human features — not natural genetics.
And they want our minds filled with their propaganda — not any sense of purpose or mission.
At the end of the day, each of us will be reduced to a mere number, correlating to the computer chip that has been installed in our brain to control us. No personal history; no heritage. We will no longer be the unique person who is the child of our parents… grandchild of our grandparents… descendent of our forebearers… and child of God.
This plan is completely contrary to the way God has designed people. He has made the family the key ingredient to forming a free society. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explains how in his commentary on Parshiot Behar-Bechukotai called “Family Feeling.”
https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/behar/family-feeling/
The Bible emphasizes that people in your daily life are like family:
“This is particularly evident in this week’s parsha. Repeatedly we read of social legislation couched in the language of family:
“‘When you buy or sell to your neighbour, let no one wrong his brother.’ Lev. 25:14
“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.’ Lev. 25:25
“‘If your brother is impoverished and indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident. Do not take interest or profit from him, but fear your God and let your brother live with you.’ Lev. 25:35-36
“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is sold to you, do not work him like a slave.’Lev. 25:39
“’Your brother’ in these verses is not meant literally. At times it means ‘your relative’, but mostly it means ‘your fellow Jew’. This is a distinctive way of thinking about society and our obligations to others. Jews are not just citizens of the same nation or adherents of the same faith. We are members of the same extended family. We are – biologically or electively – children of Abraham and Sarah. For the most part, we share the same history. On the festivals we relive the same memories. We were forged in the same crucible of suffering. We are more than friends. We are mishpacha, family.”
The Bible is full of the family metaphor:
“The concept of family is absolutely fundamental to Judaism. Consider the book of Genesis, the Torah’s starting-point. It is not primarily about theology, doctrine, dogma. It is not a polemic against idolatry. It is about families: husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters.
“At key moments in the Torah, God Himself defines His relationship with the Israelites in terms of family. He tells Moses to say to Pharaoh in His name: ‘My child, My firstborn, Israel’ (Ex. 4:22). When Moses wants to explain to the Israelites why they have a duty to be holy, He answers, ‘You are children of the Lord your God’ (Deut. 14:1). If God is our parent, then we are all brothers and sisters. We are related by bonds that go to the very heart of who we are.
“The prophets continued the metaphor. There is a lovely passage in Hosea in which the prophet describes God as a parent teaching a young child how to take its first faltering steps: ‘When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son … It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms … To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them.’” (Hosea 11:1-4).
Our sages teach that we are “family” with God:
“The same image is continued in rabbinic Judaism. In one of the most famous phrases of prayer, Rabbi Akiva used the words Avinu Malkeinu, ‘Our Father, our King’. That is a precise and deliberate expression. God is indeed our sovereign, our lawgiver and our judge, but before He is any of these things He is our parent and we are His children. That is why we believe divine compassion will always override strict justice.”
The sense of family is the foundation of not only the Jewish society, but of any people that wants to preserve freedom:
“This sense of kinship, fraternity and the family bond, is at the heart of the idea of Kol Yisrael arevin zeh bazeh, ‘All Jews are responsible for one another.’ Or as Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai put it, ‘When one Jew is injured, all Jews feel the pain.’
“Why is Judaism built on this model of the family? Partly to tell us that God did not choose an elite of the righteous or a sect of the likeminded. He chose a family – Abraham and Sarah’s descendants — extended through time. The family is the most powerful vehicle of continuity, and the kinds of changes Jews were expected to make to the world could not be achieved in a single generation. Hence the importance of the family as a place of education (‘You shall teach these things repeatedly to your children …’) and of handing the story on, especially on Pesach through the Seder service.
“Another reason is that family feeling is the most primal and powerful moral bond. The scientist J. B. S. Haldane famously said, when asked whether he would jump into a river and risk his life to save his drowning brother, ‘No, but I would do so to save two brothers or eight cousins.’ The point he was making was that we share 50 per cent of our genes with our siblings, and an eighth with our cousins. Taking a risk to save them is a way of ensuring that our genes are passed on to the next generation. This principle, known as ‘kin selection’, is the most basic form of human altruism. It is where the moral sense is born.
“That is a key insight, not only of biology but also of political theory. Edmund Burke famously said that ‘To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.’ Likewise Alexis de Tocqueville said, ‘As long as family feeling was kept alive, the opponent of oppression was never alone.’
“Strong families are essential to free societies. Where families are strong, a sense of altruism exists that can be extended outward, from family to friends to neighbours to community and from there to the nation as a whole.”
I would add this:
As clear as it is that the technocrats want to destroy the family, it is also clear that they are doomed to fail. That demise will be soon in coming, as long as we stay true to our family values, and fight to protect them.