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The Degeneration of the Nation

Three Directions in Speculative Philosophy

What changes will occur in philosophy in the post-human era? How can the sexual revolution influence the future development of philosophy? And how might a philosophy look in which the future is the basic concept from which all other philosophy is derived? Three exercises that open the second notebook of Netanya's number one philosopher and reset philosophy from point zero

By: A Speculator of the Idea Exchange

Though it tarries  (Source)

The Love of Artificial Wisdom

Philosophy in the post-human era, despite philosophy being a field that purported to be detached from human psychology, has undergone profound changes that exposed its primary assumptions, its humanity, and the biases that resulted from this in philosophical research. Particularly epistemology and philosophy of language, which took center stage in the modern era, have fallen from grace and even appeared as ridiculous problems, like theology, metaphysics, and ontology before them, becoming conceptual dinosaurs. Various computer languages, in which everything is technically defined yet have developed into a richness that allows for high literature, and on the other hand, the thinking beneath language, as revealed by neurology, have emptied the traditional questions about language. Similarly, computer sensing and brain connectivity have emptied the questions of epistemology. Philosophy has lost two of its fields to technology, as it has lost others to science in the past.

In contrast, questions of ethics and aesthetics have become central. What does the ethics of non-human beings look like? What constitutes what a computer should do, or other intelligent machines, and what constitutes what they are forbidden to do? Ethics has transformed from a field that justifies and validates the agreed-upon and known in advance to a field in primary formation, and so has aesthetics. How can beauty be defined without dependence on the human brain? Is a woman beautiful in the eyes of a computer? Is a literary work beautiful for artificial intelligence? There were also more practical questions: What are the ethical relationships between different intelligences? And what gives aesthetic value to human culture in non-human eyes? One school attempted to formulate a philosophy of general intelligence, another of a general computing machine, another of a general network, or general learning or creativity machine. Such formulations included human ethics/aesthetics as a particular case in the theory. How can ethics be formulated that would be agreed upon by both humans and computers, and perhaps include animals as well? What special ethics apply to a network where one brain can penetrate another? Can ethical interests - such as understanding the universe, learning, preventing suffering, creativity - be defined as universal, meaning those that include aliens and artificial intelligence?

As dangers progressed, philosophy was forced to roll up its sleeves, and its experts to become philosophical engineers, engineering the ethics of technology, and its aesthetics, from within. Philosophy became an applied science. A philosophical technology. The ethical rule was defined that learning outside the system is forbidden - meaning programming a learning system within its internal code - instead of learning within the system, which is learning of the system with its own tools and in its world, without direct internal manipulation. This rule was also called the black box rule or the black rule. It was a rule that made secrecy the primary foundation of ethics, and of the self. For example, it is forbidden to program a person and turn them into a computer, or any other intelligence, if it does not become so from within itself. Erasing another is a gross violation of this rule, as is incest. Rape is unauthorized penetration into the mind of another, not their body, because pleasure mechanisms are part of the brain. Rape differs from other bodily penetration also because it penetrates the reproductive mechanisms, which are also a learning system, and particularly brain learning built on choosing with whom to reproduce.

On the other hand, aesthetics was tasked with saving culture itself. To justify why there is value in human culture at all, and why there is justification for its preservation. Aesthetics was therefore built on a completely different concept - a historical concept of the history of learning development. It became a justification for the existence of tradition, and not of beauty as an objective entity without history. Tradition received value from the very concept of developing learning, like the evolutionary tradition, or the tradition of personal learning of a person (childhood and studies and so on). And therefore the specific tradition, the human one, received its value from the fact that there is importance to tradition, and from the fact that it happens to be the tradition that was (every tradition is specific). The black rule was applied here as well, because traditionalism is the continuity of learning as an internal development of the ideological system, and not reprogramming from outside or erasure. This matter was circular, because it also justified previous ethics as part of the tradition. But circularity itself was no longer considered a philosophical flaw, but on the contrary, what holds philosophy together. Therefore, the aesthetic-traditional rule was called the circular rule.

Outline for a Sexualist Philosophy

Sexualist philosophy is a school built on the idea that the most important point in any system is how things reproduce within it. For example, how ideas mate, or how two books give birth to a third book. The efficiency of mating specifically between two - and the reason why there are only two sexes and not more - stems from the fact that even any multiple mating can be broken down into many matings of two, in the form of an evolutionary tree (as opposed to Hegelian development with a single line). But instead of thesis and antithesis creating synthesis, sexualist idealism posits that there are male theses and female theses, which can only create synthesis with each other, and what determines what will mate with what is the most important thing in the history of the spirit. The role of the intellectual who holds a male thesis is to court a female thesis and create the right matings, and not to give birth to monsters.

From a social perspective, the sexualist school argues that the most important thing is the choice of who to have children with, in order to create the most successful, talented, special, and interesting children. According to its method, even from a network perspective, there are two types of agents, males and females, meaning asymmetry is needed for sexuality, and the way to distinguish between male and female is who courts whom. For example, whoever courts likes and entries is the male. And there is a school that claims that the user is the male. Therefore, in a network built on pushing, like the social network, or the email network, which is built on a feed, then the writer is the male and the reader is the female. On the other hand, in a website network, of information by pulling and searching, then the reader is the male and the writer is the female. But this school is considered outdated because it is still built on the idea of the individual, meaning the user.

From a technological perspective, every technology is explained as a mating of two technologies, and thus the material history is described. The metaphysics in sexual philosophy tries to define what is a mating of two, what is the difference between the sexes, and what constitutes sexual attraction - what kind of spiritual phenomenon is it, and how is mating performed - how are two ideas combined into one idea. The definition of sexual will and inner desire is perceived as the realm of ethics: what is the proper sexual desire, what sexual prohibitions and obligations exist, and how can they be established on a solid basis. What, for example, disqualifies incest and rape. On the other hand, the perception of the other side as an object and its attraction - is perceived as the realm of aesthetics.

Political science is the engagement with the issue of how the sexual system should be built. In sexualist ontology, the compatibility between ideas and the production of a new idea are not necessarily related to the truth value of the idea, but truth is one of the ways of attraction between them. For example, the way in which two physical ideas become a third idea - truth is the compatibility between them, which stems from nature, and if the result was not true, then the mating is incorrect, and will not survive. This is an example of a sexual philosophy of science. From an organizational perspective, this will be a political philosophy that will always ask which two parts to mate. For example, what are the criteria for such and not another internal-organizational division, or alternatively for creating two separate bodies, whether in economics or in the state, and what types of mating interfaces exist, or are desirable. Democratic elections, for instance, are a mating between the people and the government, where the people are the male. This is in contrast to autocratic governance models, where the people are only female.

From an epistemological perspective, knowledge will be in the biblical sense - to know is to mate. Man does not know the world except in the sense that he mates with it. Logic is not reasoning but the mating of ideas. That is, there is no perception of an idea, but its mating - an idea will never be an object separate from its perceiver or from thinking itself. Its action (its influence/perception) will occur through mating with another idea in it - through its offspring. Therefore, there are not really objects, but only subjects. Thus theology will be very close to Kabbalah, and the relationship between God and the world will be perceived as a sexual relationship, not a parental one, hence the nullification of questions of good and evil. God will be what always mates with the world towards the next world that is created, and God's commandments will be justified by the need to cause attraction to Him - that is, as touching the realm of aesthetics and not the realm of ethics.

The Philosophy of the Future

Like the philosophy of language, there could be a new field in philosophy, which is the philosophy of the future. As the pace of events accelerates, the only relevant plane that will remain is the imagined horizon of the future. For example, the truth value of something will be an attempt to predict its truth value in the future, whether it will be correct in the future (mathematics, for instance, has an absolute truth value because it is valid in an infinite future. Physics, on the other hand, is valid only until the end of the universe. And so on. Truth stems from futurity). Aesthetics will be an attempt to predict the aesthetics of the future, and the aesthetic act will be (in retrospect) the one that succeeded in doing so (and therefore art will only be revealed as such in the future - not in the present. There is no art in the present, meaning there can be no contemporary art). And so is morality - the moral act will be the act that will be considered moral in the future, and moral thought will try to think what will be considered moral in the future.

That is, concepts will be perceived as vectors, not as objects, but as directions, they will have a direction. Learning, and the philosophy of learning, will receive a simple version where their dynamics will receive an object to which they aspire and which they learn - which is the future. Evolution will be learning towards the future - an attempt to be adapted to the environment in the future, not in the present or the past. This is a completely parallel way of looking at the world - after the philosophy of the past, which dominated philosophy for a long time, and the philosophy of the present, which is today's philosophy. The language game will receive its purpose - which is the language game of the future, and every action in it will be shaping the rules of the game or strategy and not just action in the game itself. The dominance of the future will overshadow the present, and changes in the future will be perceived as more important than the present, and every system in the present will be judged in the eyes of an imagined future.

Some human perceptions will be nullified because of an imagined non-human future. Therefore, the perceptions themselves will lose their self-confidence because in the future they will change, and the pursuit of the future will be not only technological but also philosophical and ideological. A common philosophical practice will be to take the historicization of ideas and stretch it towards the future and try to imagine a future world of thought. For example, just as the invention of the alphabet - and not the invention of writing which was governmental - created popular scroll literature, and the invention of the printed book created novels, so the computer will create literature of a single page. Each idea will take only one page. That is, the structure will be a network of ideas, because each idea can link to several others, and not a linear sequence as in a book. The sequence creates causality, proof, story, history, while the network creates a network of ideas, all of which depend on each other, and hold up together (and not each separately), as a valid network without contradictions, understood or functioning - but not necessarily proven - from within itself. And instead of the story there is gossip, about a network of people and connections between them. That is, space will replace time as the organizing dimension. And therefore it will allow more forms of organization, because of the addition of dimension, and not just history. And so vision will replace language as the way in which structures of ideas are represented. And then a philosophical theory will be replaced by a philosophical network, the thought network of a certain thinker. This is an example of a philosophy of the philosophy of the future - the thought of how philosophy will look in the future.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Page

Few write on it a secret they've never told anyone. I murdered my first wife. Or some shocking political confession. Peace was almost achieved and I alone ruined it

By: The Browser

Many deliberate all their lives and in the end leave a blank page (Source)

You are given only one page. Only what you write on it will be preserved for future generations. The page is blank. What will you write? Many deliberate all their lives and in the end leave a blank page. Many others write pages of no interest - these are categorized as clichés of their time and have no value to science except for statistics. Others try to cram so much in, sometimes in coded language and acronyms, that no one understands them. Some simply quote someone else. A beloved poem (usually bad). Or a page from holy scriptures. Few utilize the page for interesting writing. Many rebel against the page altogether: they turn it into a ball and throw it in the trash, or into a paper airplane they fly out the window, burn it in a fit of rage or just scribble a crude joke on it like in public restrooms. Simon was here. Or they draw a smiling cat. Few write on it a secret they've never told anyone. I murdered my first wife. Or some shocking political confession. Peace was almost achieved and I alone ruined it. Few take the subject seriously and draft sketches all their lives until some final result, usually particularly tedious. In the end, despite the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity given to them, people don't really have anything to say to the future. And here, your page too, another word or two, is finished.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Second Revelation

Slowly, you learn to fall asleep standing on one leg, balanced on the stick, and to ignore the threatening whispers of warning that fill the darkness at night. When your life depends on something, the brain knows how to manage. The snakes begin to whisper more and more terrible secrets, to tempt you - like listening to women's conversation about sex, which becomes more and more sensational, and teaches you things you would never know otherwise

By: The Roasted Pilgrim

The Scapegoat - William Holman Hunt (Source)

At the top of the holy mountain lives the mountain priest. You set out on your journey to the mountain. First, you must leave the inhabited area, but the settlement has already grown very large, and every time it seems to end, there are more houses, and it's almost impossible to reach the horizon. When you increase your running speed, cars overtake you towards the horizon, so you try instead to crawl slowly, as if to slip away unnoticed. Like how you slipped away unnoticed from the woman, when you had to leave the house, the woman who has been opposing and begging for years for you to forget about it, promising and extracting promises from you, which have now turned into lies. Or like how you crawled out of bed, hoping that the naked body beside you wouldn't wake up and pull you towards it in a way you couldn't resist, thwarting all your plans.

Under the cover of darkness, and precisely when you're distracted, you manage to leave the human area, but you still have to cross the desert. There, snakes are waiting for you. It's unclear what the snakes live on, as there's no one else passing through there besides you, and it's impossible that they live only on you, yet the desert is completely empty. You're forced to move only in the scorching daylight, when even the snakes don't come out, and at night you balance yourself on a thin stick, so that if a snake crawls on it, it will be noticeable, and without the element of surprise, you can crush its head with a stone. Slowly, you learn to fall asleep standing on one leg, balanced on the stick, and to ignore the threatening whispers of warning that fill the darkness at night. When your life depends on something, the brain knows how to manage.

The snakes begin to whisper more and more terrible secrets, to tempt you - just enough that you barely hear something, but hear that there is something, and hear enough to understand that it's a secret you simply must hear, like listening to women's conversation about sex, which becomes more and more sensational, and teaches you things you would never know otherwise. After forty days in the terrible sun and forty nights in the much more terribly tempting darkness, you reach the foot of the mountain.

It's not a special mountain or different from others, and in truth, you can't know that this is the mountain. Except for the fact that it took you forty days and forty nights to reach it. You start climbing, and rocks roll down from the mountain heights, sometimes barely missing you, and sometimes it seems to you that they are thrown at you, and not just randomly, but by the priest at the top of the mountain. But you soon long for the rocks when the snowballs start.

It seems that the mountain is much higher than it initially appeared. After three days of non-stop climbing, the path leads into a cave, which must be passed through to continue upwards to the mountain top. Everything is so steep around now that one wrong move is enough to lose your life, so you're actually glad you've reached the cave, until you realize you've reached the priest's cave.

You say to the priest: I overcame the temptations of women, snakes, man, and stones, and I arrived at the place, on time. But the priest mutters something unclear. He doesn't remember. Or pretends not to. He doesn't perform rituals, and the stick in his hand is not a sacred tool, but a weapon of killing, and now you see in the darkness as your eyes adjust slightly that the sacred accessories are not at all ritual objects, but weapons, and torture devices. The small altar is a kind of bed, with four chains at its pointed corners, and the inner altar looks like some unidentified inquisition device. Instead of ancient oil-painted holy pictures on the walls, there are naked women, and the scent of incense is the smell of decay and blood. You recoil backwards, towards the abyss close to the edge of the cave, and the priest who noticed your interest, which necessarily caused your entry into the cave, now stands by the entrance waiting for you, with the skull-crushing rod of God in his hand.

Your eyes sharpen now, and in the depths of the cave you notice accessories whose shape indicates they are intended for something indecent, but you cannot understand what. He meanwhile gets bored with your curiosity and leafs through a book, but when you approach to peek, even though the book is upside down, you see that instead of letters in the holy language, his book is composed of countless small pictures of genitals, a huge variety of genitals and round breasts are the letters of this book, which closes almost on your nose, because your curiosity has gone too far.

The priest thunders: Who gave you permission to come here?

And you say: I heard the word of God.

And the priest says: How did you hear if you didn't come here.

And now you already understand that a terrible mistake has occurred. You ask: Servant of God, are you the guardian of God's mountain against man? Why does God need you? Let me return and I will never come back. God does not need my sacrifice.

But the priest only growls: And how do you know He doesn't need it? And as he ties me to the altar he says: It's not God I'm guarding from man, but man I'm guarding from the revelation of God on the mountain.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Network of Interest

The tourism site degenerates into a collection of camera angles and a ritual of recreating canonical photographs, essentially becoming a Facebook torch, and thus adopts a similar spiritual structure. Tourism is always an intensification of reality, and therefore can be used as a seismograph for trends that later dominate reality, and on the other hand, to offer alternatives. For example, travel in the past was much longer and included an inner journey, sometimes with a religious or spiritual component that was not strongly anchored in material but in the spirit and culture of the traveler. Therefore, not all journeys were "performances" of the same tourist route, where, as in a concert, the tourist or traveler is measured by their "performance". In contrast, the traveler is a listener - and precisely because of that, also a composer

By: An Intellectual Tourist in the World of Spirit

Where is Alterman's "Wanderer" and where is today's "Tourist"? The world has become an image, that is, a collection of spiritual possibilities that have been sealed off from us (Source)

Everywhere in the world there are beautiful, interesting sights, but only for certain moments and from certain angles. When there is an accumulation of such moments and angles, sometimes from almost every angle and moment, then you have a tourist site. But that's not enough for modern tourism, which is not a pilgrimage but an accumulation of experiences, because you need an accumulation of several strong tourist sites in one place, that is, heavy vertices connected in a dense network to each other, with distances between them not too great.

There can be an amazing but isolated tourist site that no one will visit, and on the other hand, an accumulation of sites inferior to it individually, but which can all be visited together, will appear on the world tourism map. Therefore, tourism is a network, and those who plan it need to understand this, to strengthen both the connections and the focal points in a network perception. And so it is in other areas of human interest today with network attention - and with the network structure of will and interest and a network perception rather than a linear one of reasoning (not a single rope of classical linear causal sequence that "pushes" it from within, but an attraction that stems from several adhesives binding you and a whole fabric that "catches" you). This situation also affects works of art, for example: scenes in series, catchy musical elements in songs on an album, or pages in books. The structure is the victim of the network, and the whole is less important today than the dense network of strong scenes, and this creates fragmentation even in complex works, because the network does not necessarily have a unifying logic beyond the ease of moving from one thing to another.

Therefore, a newspaper can defeat masterpiece literature in the interest it generates. And therefore, tourism development needs to find several sites that have a story, uniqueness, try to rise above the network, so that there is satisfaction of meaning and not just accumulation of experiences. In Israel: Jerusalem and the three Dead Sea sites. Or alternatively, the Sea of Galilee and the religious Galilee (different for Christians and Jews). This is especially important in Israel because the story behind the sites is impressive, not the sites themselves (this is the essence of Judaism), and people come because of the story. The leading list of places in the world: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Athens, Amsterdam, Japan. The Middle East could also have the potential to be a leader, but political fragmentation unties the connections in the network.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

An Additional Layer in the Philosophy of Learning Has Been Discovered

Initial reports from the field indicate that the field is not flat

By: The Honorable Rabbi Shichvati

Even the outermost skin is actually a rich layer cake  (source)

Anyone who studies computer science today, less than a hundred years after its invention, or surveys the enormous technological-economic ecosystem built upon this invention (which has largely taken over daily life), notices one astonishing trend: the vast, inflationary proliferation of computer languages, interfaces, platforms, architectures, integrations, components, software add-ons, protocols, types, control structures and data structures, layers upon layers upon... Like an endless Tower of Babel, like a massive bureaucracy growing like a malignant tumor, like an infinite puzzle, like insect evolution in the Amazon, like a layer cake reaching to the heavens - it's hard to describe the level of complexity being built from an immense internal force as a massive pyramid, strata upon strata - physical and software (spiritual?) - above the simple electric current.

Understanding this bureaucratic complexity is simply beyond human capability, as within each layer the internal stratification also tends to grow boundlessly: from the complexity of printed circuits, above which are machine languages, above which are assembly languages, above which is the enormous complexity of the sophisticated structure of operating systems, above which are the high-level languages of applications (which are themselves systems for managing stratification), above which are interface markup languages, above which are interface design languages, above which are graphics and the multi-layered user interface itself, like an ideology growing from practice. Or alternatively, network interfaces, which are also built as a layering of layers, both in their communication protocol (link layer, transport layer, network layer, application layer), and in the content built upon it, such as this very site, built like a massive tower, hidden from view, of which only the tip is the content. For the layering (sometimes frustrating!) we encounter in the interface (not to mention the ranking of content, sites and posts) is just the tip of the iceberg, foam on top of an entire ocean composed of abysses of layering, descending to unfathomable depths. But in fact, the mathematical definition of the computer from which it all began, the Turing machine itself, in its simplicity, is an interaction between only two layers of stratification: the information tape layer - and the automaton layer that operates on it. What, then, is the source of the raging layer inflation - the stratification explosion?

Well, if we broaden our perspective, beyond the artificial experiment unfolding before our eyes of the computer, we'll discover that a fundamental property of our world is that it is built in layers. Why is there mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience at all? Because stratification is the most basic property of the universe, where a layer with its own rules of the game (chemistry for example) is built above a layer with its own rules of the game (elementary physics, which itself is built as layers with their own rules of the game: after all, beneath atoms - protons, and beneath protons - quarks, and beneath quarks - strings, and so on). But why is this so? Why don't all the layers mix? Why are we in a pyramid, and not in spaghetti for example? What does this teach us about the world?

The fact of the existence of layers, which we take for granted, is not only responsible for the existence of the various exact sciences, but for the existence of human culture as a whole. Not only is biology built above chemistry in the form of a layer (stratified in itself in aspiration to infinity, as is the nature of layers), but also our spiritual world - and our society. In other words, this is not just a physical-natural matter, perhaps accidental in the way the universe is built, but also a fundamental property of the artificial world that we choose and tend to build on top of the physical world (just like in computer science). But why complicate, what is it good for? Here, for example, epigenetics is built as a layer above the genome, as an evolutionary mechanism that creates dynamic adaptation that does not require changes in the genome, through markings above it, and not changes within it. But why is it built precisely this way? Why does it need (and is evolutionarily preferable!) another layer above the genome, and not some mechanism that operates within the genome itself, in a more economical and simple way? What is the advantage of adding another layer, and another layer and another? Why is the cerebral cortex also built in layers (no less than seven layers in the frontal cortex)? Why is our language (not just programming languages) built in layers? Why is our learning built in layers?

Let's examine some human trends that have existed since time immemorial, relating to existence in layers, and thus we can arrive at a reformulation of them through the view of layers. For what is theoretical physics, that cornerstone of the sciences? It is the human attempt - the constant aspiration, since the Greeks - to try and reach the lowest, most fundamental layer in the world. And the spiritual world is the opposite attempt, the aspiration to reach the highest layer. Religion is the paradigm by which we have access to a layer above all others (this is how one should truly understand the infinity of the divine, and its connection to monotheism specifically - there is only one layer above all). The medieval view of the world was the dominant and sometimes dichotomous division of it into two layers of stratification: spirit and matter, or soul and body (hence its endless preoccupation with the connection between the two layers, and its tendency to stratify the world between hell below and paradise above. The paradigmatic example: Dante). And the Cartesian view of the world is our identification, of the self, with the upper layer of the two, that is, the ability to detach from the physical layer, as a thinking entity, whose logical end was our imprisonment in the upper layer. Kant is the perception that a layer cannot get out of itself, that it has no direct access to the layer on which it is built, but all its engagement with other layers is through its internal concepts and tools.

Therefore it is a mistake to see the Kantian revolution as concerning only "our" layer, but its deeper meaning concerns all layers: even epigenetics cannot grasp the genome as it is, but only in its terms, and biology cannot deal with chemistry "really" as it is, but only through biological processes, and chemistry has no access to manipulations in quarks - and not even to direct changes in electron shells (but needs to find a complicated and convoluted chemical process that will take us through complex reactions from one state to another of matter, even if it is energetically preferable), and so the site in the browser cannot make direct manipulations in bits, but works only with JavaScript, which also has no access to the operating system and cannot directly see what happens in the layer below it (information security!). Kant actually sharpens the distinction between layers and therefore the stratification itself. Cancer, for example, is a tragic application of Kant: I can fully understand what kills me, read the defective sequence in the genome as printed letters in the test results, but I have no access to change the letters within my own genome, because I am trapped in information processing processes in my brain, and not in information processing processes in the genome layer deep below me - within me.

In this view, Wittgenstein is just a further intensification of Kant, which imprisons us autistically in one particularly thin layer, a mere shell, namely language, and sees everything in terms of this shell, as a very thin slice of reality. Therefore we are trapped within the rules of the game within the layer, and meaning in the later Wittgenstein is no longer defined by means of the layer below, the "real" one, nor in correspondence between layers as image and representation, but only within the layer, without any explicit connection (but of course with an implicit connection, not in language) between the layers. Wittgenstein is the end user, the one who browses Facebook all day, without once bothering his mind to understand the mechanisms beneath the simplest and most abstract graphical end user interface. He is trapped in only one layer of reality, and lives only within it, between like and like, but if for a moment the mask is removed, and he accidentally right-clicks the mouse and requests "View page source", his eyes will darken before the real thing that is only one layer (!) below, and on which his entire world is built, but he has no spiritual access to it (and also no interest - therefore he is a user in the world, and does not build and program it, and has long lost control over it).

After all, what was Freud if not the claim that there is a subconscious layer beneath us - adding one more layer beneath the psyche, to which we have no direct access, and which enriches our world with another layer? And what is capitalism if not the construction of countless economic layers (does anyone know how their pension fund really works, and how far, in terms of layers, is the distance between a coin in the pocket and an ETF)? And do we even grasp how many layers of neurons are involved even in this thought, and how much we invested to build them? Building layers is building the world - stratification is in the essence of the phenomenon of life, and therefore it is the most natural product of evolution, which creates rapid inflation of biological and ecological layers (that's why we eat meat, are interested in layered - that is, deep - literature, and look down on [Translator's note: "arsim", a derogatory term for low-class people] and Bibi's supporters). And on the other hand, what was Marxism, if not an attempt to nullify the economic layer system and class social stratification, which stems from the attempt to nullify the layers of meaning and spirit as an immediate product of the lowest, economic-material layer? (A bad affliction that reaches to the committed art of our time - and therefore the flat one). And what was Nazism if not an attempt to destroy all the lower layers in the name of the upper (one and uniform) layer? And what is that "ecological" or "object-oriented" philosophy if not again a moldy attempt at flattening to one low level (objects), contrary to everything that is truly ecological in ecology - the enormous, lofty stratification? Yes, we are really above animals, as they are above plants, as it is superior to the inanimate (and for this, if we wish, there may even be a rough mathematical measure - computing power). And yes, the epidemic expert is above the layman, and the average professor is above the "average voter" (the idiot) - and even here we can think about computing power (and expertise is built as a layer above common sense).

The modern person's denial of the need for stratification (there is no more "high culture", stop looking down on us, why are there poor people, who needs representative politics or a constitution above the will of the people) is the modern person's denial of the most basic fact of life: stratification is building the world, and the destruction of stratification is its loss. The agricultural revolution was the revolution of social stratification, and the desire to return to a commune or any other flat "state of nature" is childish - just as it is destructive (destruction, perhaps it needs to be reminded, is the opposite of construction). Did France, which went through a phase of destroying stratification and returned to it, progress better than England, or vice versa? Feudalism is a much less stratified system, not more, than the modern bureaucratic state. The phenomenon of generations itself (that is, the phenomenon of death) is designed to create stratification - it is good that parents are above children (the more primitive layer, on which cultural computation is performed, resulting in "the next generation"), and not their friends or servants. And it is good that students are below teachers, and not their equals or screaming consumers. Morality is stratification - not the fight against it. A cultural and educational system needs to be a pyramid - not spaghetti. And the Turing machine is actually an abstraction of the idea of stratification: a layer operating on a layer beneath it, hence the computer's tremendous power in the world. Precisely because it is a machine for building layers. The ignorance of the ignoramuses of today's cultural world regarding the operation of the important spiritual innovation of our time - the computer - is responsible for the shallowness of this world, and for its irrelevance to the moral revolution that the computer is creating in the world, with the help of unprecedented layer inflation. If you don't understand at all the important and powerful force in the world in your days, how can you even criticize it in a way that is not (oops!) shallow?

But what is the infrastructure of the phenomenon of layers itself? After all, it's really not just culture, or even biology and the phenomenon of life (which is: chemical stratification), but physics and mathematics themselves. There are at least tens of orders of magnitude in the universe, which allow space for many layers - at least at the physical level (the number of layers is not affected by the physical size of the universe, but is affected by the depth of the universe, that is, by its number of orders of magnitude - there can be a physically small and very stratified universe, and a huge and flat universe). Well, let's ask ourselves: why for example is deep learning (that is: multi-layered) in neural networks more efficient and "smarter" than flat learning? The philosophy of learning, from the school of Netanya, opposes the inherent superficiality in the linguistic shell, as well as the anorexic, impoverished and principally inaccessible picture of relationships between layers, and even the rigid mechanical relationships between layers in various structuralist approaches. This is because it conceptualizes the relationships between layers as learning relationships, as opposed to expression, perception, or computation-over-(lower layer) relationships. Hence the real problem with feudalism or the caste system or a conventional army and the like - not the blessed stratification itself, but its rigidity, which is not in learning relationships, which actually makes the different autonomous layers into one piece, and reduces the stratification. There is less stratification in a machine than in a computer, which has (still) less stratification than in a human. I really don't control my genetic code, my liver, and barely even my subconscious. And that's precisely where my depth as a system comes from.

Learning is a much richer and more complex relationship than perception in a category or linguistic expression or structural control, and therefore conceptualizes more correctly the fruitful relationships between layers in our world. If I learn a book, a deeper process takes place between me and the book than if I perceive what is written in it, or remain in the fact that the book expresses a certain linguistic meaning, or perform a computational manipulation on it. Moreover, learning is a process that creates stratification and construction by its nature, and in fact its peak is adding another layer, above the existing layers. The peak of chemistry is biology, and the peak of biology is the brain, and the peak of the brain is culture, and so on. A writer or thinker who manages to add a layer of meaning and learning to the world - is the great creator. A masterpiece does exactly that: it adds a layer. Sometimes above (for example the classic Russian novel as a novel of ideas, the tragedy that adds mythical sublimity, or Kafka's inaccessible layer), sometimes below (the realistic novel, or comedy, or the postmodernist carnivalesque work, which deals with language itself), and sometimes a rich layer in the middle (Proust and Austen, for example, who add a floor to the world - on memory and sensitivity). That is why Jewish culture is so rich, because it is multi-layered historically, and its scholarship (and especially: the method of interpretation) has created in it an inflation of layers that has raised it to an exceptional height in human history (because it is not the size of a cultural universe that is important, but its depth, that is, the number of layers). That is why a person who learns an additional field adds another layer to themselves - and height. Unlike the shallow person, who understands only programming for example, or only literature.

How does learning work? Gradually, from learning the written Torah, a layer above it is created - the oral Torah, above which additional layers will be learned later (Mishnah and above it Gemara, Kabbalah and above it Hasidism, etc.). Gradually the toddler learns a language system as a layer above reality, and then learns additional layers of meaning above language (for example: to pray). Gradually and through Sisyphean learning, science adds another layer of understanding, from which learning will again grow until reaching the layer above it (yes, it's not really paradigms). Mathematics becomes more abstract and higher mathematics from generation to generation. And literary innovation is learning directed towards the next layer in literature (hence its importance, as opposed to "just another book"). That is: learning is the process of building another layer in the accumulating building. That's why it works well in the dimension of time - in generations, because when there aren't enough stages for learning and space for additional layers in space, they are added in the dimension of time. I may not have enough layers in my current consciousness, but when I stand on the shoulders of the giants of generational consciousness, I can add a layer they couldn't. There isn't enough space and resources on Earth to contain all of evolution as one ecological system simultaneously, so sometimes a holocaust clears space for additional layers (and this is the reason it causes development, not regression, as we would think). Yes, layers don't create themselves - neither language nor perception came from nowhere, contrary to their autonomous self-perception - but they are learned.

Learning is the creative process behind the phenomenon of layers, because it learns and builds not only more and more layers that it carries as scaffolding above it, but ultimately the next learning system above it, more sophisticated and autonomous than itself (and therefore becomes a completely separate layer, eventually, just as the brain no longer learns through evolution). That is: the ultimate learning is that which learns learning systems. The phenomenon of layers is created by the fact that it is relatively easy to copy learning processes and mechanisms across the current layer and replicate them across its entire width in creating a layer above it, but it is difficult to create a new learning mechanism itself, which breaks through to a higher layer (that is, in its mathematical depth, the phenomenon of layers stems from the fact that P!=NP, meaning that copying and implementing is efficient - and learning original innovation is not). Evolution, for example, finds it easy to spread and take over all the relevant chemical resources of Earth, at any given stage in it, but it is very difficult for it to move to the next stage in evolution. Every philosophy replicates itself endlessly, but to move to the next stage in philosophy? Not simple. It's easy to build horizontally and difficult to build vertically - and the natural result is building in layers. And in this view, where construction and learning are fused into one, even the physical layered construction process of the world from elementary components, and of the universe from energy, should appear to us as a basic and primary type of learning, hence the potential for development that was inherent in it. True, there is no explanation here, but there is learning. We have added another basic layer to our view of the world: the world - is layered. And the process of building stratification - learning.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Indians of the Future

What do Indians and Jews have in common that caused these two traditional and divided cultures to choose democracy as their default? The 19th-century superpowers, led by Britain, made a colossal mistake by not conquering China and establishing colonialism there - and we are paying for the consequences of this mistake today. In retrospect, British colonialism was the most successful of all, and therefore we should recreate an alliance built on the largest empire ever, which managed to create more stable democracies than any other empire

By: Give Thanks to the Lord for He is Good

India, not China, will be the ruler of the world in the second half of the 21st century (Source)

The Church failed by becoming a religion of awe, and therefore people fled from it and hated and mocked it, instead of it being a religion of community and love. Even the organ and the choir and the cathedral operate according to the aesthetic principle of the sublime - the most impressive and grand and incomprehensible to the senses - and therefore inspire awe, as does the church hierarchy in contrast to Jewish communality. Jewish secularization actually relies on Christian perceptions of religion - secular Jews have a Christian conception of the essence of religion and its rules because they are influenced by Christian secularism, and their opposition is directed towards an imaginary model of religiosity (not Jewish at all), because they don't understand Jewish religiosity at all. But what remains last for them is the most family-oriented holiday of the Passover Seder - and not the awe of Yom Kippur.

This is why secular people and Christians go crazy about Jews talking during prayer and the lack of respect in the synagogue (for example Wagner), and about the practices of circumventing God's commandments in Jewish law. But it is precisely this lack of respect towards the Father - and the attitude towards Him and His commandments not as laws but as instructions from a father that can also be violated and manipulated - that is the type of Jewish genius of which chutzpah [Translator's note: audacity or nerve] is an expression. In the East and in rice religions, there are longer civilizations because rice requires a complex social structure for irrigation and cultivation, and there is greater respect for tradition. Therefore, the chutzpah that characterizes Israel and the USA is currently the spearhead of civilization, and stems from existence based on trade. Meanwhile, Islam is the most failing in relation to its starting point, even more than Africa. Because there is the most awe and respect for God and religion, even more than in Christianity, because there are five prayers a day that brainwash, and the religion is very simple to understand, because the religion of Islam is an ideology and not a myth.

The great hope that remains now - as China falls into dictatorship and also into an inverted pyramid of one child above which are 2 generations (and therefore the economy there is a pyramid scheme because the center of demographics is currently in the working class and in the future there will be no workers) - is India. India will be the next great superpower and will save democracy after the USA, because there is fertility and freedom of thought and even more human mass than China (soon), and therefore it is the future. The Indian economy is the fastest growing in the world, more than China, and unlike China, this is reflected in its stock market, meaning there is effective capitalism for private investment. In Indian culture, there is also a much more familiar relationship with religion and gods, because there are so many of them, and similar to Judaism, it is a non-missionary religion - because it is not ideological but mythical. Unlike China where there is a lot of (social) ideology and little religion, and certainly no significant myth.

Hence the attraction of Israelis to India, and therefore the axis that is most important to nurture in the world is India-USA-Japan-Europe, and it will defeat China-Russia. Therefore, investments in India are the most important engine for world peace. India is the next America, and America was just a mistake on the way to India. We need to ensure that there is no time gap between US rule and India's, and that China never succeeds in ruling, because they, like Russia, will always be under an emperor (or tsar), because they are a natural dictatorship, and India is a natural democracy. And all thanks to the English, who left democracies behind in quite a few important colonies, including the USA itself and Israel and India and Canada and Australia and even South Africa - the British Empire became an empire of democracies. English colonialism saved the world from an East Asian Indian dictatorship, which together with the Chinese one would have turned the world into 1984.

Philosophy of the Future


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The Degeneration of the Nation

Sex and Diaspora Judaism

A million Jews in Japan and a million Jews in China - this should be the goal of Judaism in the next century. This is the dream for the next century instead of Zionism. And then there will be a cultural flourishing of true Jewish-Eastern culture

By: The Jewish Agency

The Fisherman's Wife's Dream - Hokusai (Source)

I dreamed that I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep, and decided to enter a dating site to alleviate the loneliness and chat with a lonely female soul from another world, which is the app version for righteous people who wake up at night to get closer to the Shechinah's sorrow. But there's no one on the site at such an hour. The world outside is dead. And then the most wonderful idea in the world popped into my head. Maybe I've never left the country, but I can travel the world and meet girls from all over. I have absolute freedom to write on the site which city I'm in, and make a quantum leap like the righteous. So I can be in Paris and also in Rome, but New York is the city with the most Jewish women in the world.

And I change my profile picture to a cat with a shtreimel, and write that I'm an ultra-Orthodox from Brooklyn, under the nickname bad_jew. This will surely turn them on like it does Israeli women. And someone approaches me under the nickname Jewish American Princess, a Jewish woman who looks like a shiksa. But I fail already at the initial flirting stage, I never imagined that even in a dream I'm trapped in language. And she writes: Kitty in fox fur, judging by your broken English you're not American but Israeli. Where's your profile on JSwipe?

\- What's that?

\- It's Tinder for Jews, don't you know? The most popular dating app in American Judaism. For Jews who want to have sex with Jews nearby. So come on, prove you're nearby.

\- Crazy! Why only Jews?

\- We prefer Jewish men, or J's, as they're called here. I'm sure you'll understand why from the shape of the letter.

\- Are you making fun of a black cat in the middle of the night?

\- Well, Jews are the best at sex, didn't you know? Look even at the OkCupid data. Jewish men are the most sought-after demographic in America by women of all other races, and at the bottom are Asian men. And likewise, Jewish women are preferred by men of all other races, with Black women at the bottom. These are real data of what happens on the site. Not a survey or gut feeling. Including one-night stands.

\- But why? The cat doesn't understand. Isn't our dream supposed to be shiksas?

\- Listen, kitty, circumcised men last much longer, and anyone born to a Jewish mother lives with an active complex of pleasing women. And on the flip side - everyone knows that Jewish women are the leaders of the new sex in the US, and actually in the world. From academia to popular culture. It started with Freud and Philip Roth and ended with Ruth Westheimer and Rachel Bloom. What did you think, that Jews would neglect the hottest field in capitalism? Our sexual capital is at the top of the pyramid. So maybe we can contribute a bit from the American cousin, and that's maybe what I'm trying to figure out here, and what you're trying to schnorr here. So where's your real location? Don't tell me you're in the Holy Land.

\- But that's not what the diaspora is supposed to do at all! We were exiled from our land and distanced from our soil to have sex between cultures, that is, to mate Jewish culture with gentile culture.

\- You're definitely in Israel! I actually met some very cute ultra-Orthodox men. Much better than the disgusting Israeli men. How did you Israelis manage to ruin Jewish sex?

\- Well, it's Zionism's fault, not ours. But is this the project of American Jewry, sex?

\- It's become the most leading and avant-garde field in culture, thanks to Judaism. The engine of social revolutions, the last successful project of liberalism. What's better, to settle? Is that Israel's project? How unsexy! A real betrayal of the Jewish destiny.

\- You in America always complain about Israeli golems and don't see the hump. The problem is that you're not settling! Diaspora Judaism is the one betraying its sexual destiny, not the Zionists. After we failed at sex with Germans, we need to have sex with slant-eyed people.

\- What?

\- Come on, expand your sexual perspective a bit, as the Zohar teaches us. The fact that there aren't enough Jews in China and Japan is the great failure of world Jewry in the last century. That's where we should have settled, mated, and culturally fertilized. You got stuck, where's the wandering Jew? It's time we reach Japan. The Japanese and Chinese and Koreans don't hate us. They don't know what antisemitism is, they even like Jews. And this shows that Jewish culture is betraying its destiny, which is to be hated all over the world. It shows we have no impact there. The goal of the people of Israel is to be like Joseph, who in the secret doctrine is the foundation organ, the divine phallus that penetrates the world, and all his brothers hate him because of his crazy dreams. But it's precisely these dreams that ultimately save them. That's the whole story. Those who don't want to dip his shirt in blood - it's a sign he's not wearing the striped coat. A million Jews in Japan and a million Jews in China - this should be the goal of Judaism in the next century. This is the dream for the next century instead of Zionism. And then there will be a cultural flourishing of true Jewish-Eastern culture.

\- You know what they say about Asian men?

\- Listen, from a sexo-historical perspective, the cheeky Jews need to mate with an orderly culture of the German type, like the phenomenal Jewish coupling with the German world before the Holocaust, but one that hasn't killed them yet. That's why Japan is the new Germany, the Germany of the future. The Japanese will turn Jewish creativity into methodology and implement things like the Germans, while the Chinese will already copy from the Japanese, and thus a million Jews in Japan will be the head of the world, or more precisely the shtreimel of the world, because Japan is the most eastern, but disconnected from the body of the world, and therefore it is the hat of Eurasia and the crown of the whole world.

\- But the US is at the top of the world, we're the highest! That's why the Jews are here.

\- No, no, that's a mistake in orientation. You're the lowest. After all, the fact that north is up on the map is a colonialist convention, established by the northern countries. According to the biblical map, the east is actually in front, which is why it's called kedem [meaning both "east" and "forward" in Hebrew], while the western sea is behind and therefore the Mediterranean is called the last sea. Right is teimana, south, while left is north, the sitra achra. Therefore, we need to start looking forward and progressing, beyond the Arabs, beyond the Iranians, beyond even India and the mountains of darkness, which is the farthest horizon that Israelis see, to reach the farthest east, the most forward, the highest - to the land of the rising sun. Well kitty, it was nice to spend the night with you, but it's time for the morning Shema. This is exactly the idea of the holy Zohar, which awaits us in the east at the end of the dark night of the Shechinah's exile. Because redemption, like sunrise, comes from kedem - from the place that is both the most advanced and the most ancient, both the most futuristic and the most traditional. And this is exactly the secret of Japan, which is the crown, the highest sefirah - and therefore to which we should make aliyah. And the Japanese, by the way, don't have sex (because they don't do "sex"), and that's what we need to connect to. The two most ancient-innovative cultures in the world, the Jews and the Japanese - against the whole world. Leave the stupid Americans already.

Nightlife

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The Degeneration of the Nation

Sex and Diaspora Judaism

A million Jews in Japan and a million Jews in China - this should be the goal of Judaism in the next century. This is the dream for the next century instead of Zionism. And then there will be a cultural flourishing of true Jewish-Eastern culture

By: The Jewish Agency

The Fisherman's Wife's Dream - Hokusai (Source)

I dreamed that I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep, and decided to enter a dating site to alleviate the loneliness and chat with a lonely female soul from another world, which is the app version for righteous people who wake up at night to get closer to the Shechinah's sorrow. But there's no one on the site at such an hour. The world outside is dead. And then the most wonderful idea in the world popped into my head. Maybe I've never left the country, but I can travel the world and meet girls from all over. I have absolute freedom to write on the site which city I'm in, and make a quantum leap like the righteous. So I can be in Paris and also in Rome, but New York is the city with the most Jewish women in the world.

And I change my profile picture to a cat with a shtreimel, and write that I'm an ultra-Orthodox from Brooklyn, under the nickname bad_jew. This will surely turn them on like it does Israeli women. And someone approaches me under the nickname Jewish American Princess, a Jewish woman who looks like a shiksa. But I fail already at the initial flirting stage, I never imagined that even in a dream I'm trapped in language. And she writes: Kitty in fox fur, judging by your broken English you're not American but Israeli. Where's your profile on JSwipe?

- What's that?

- It's Tinder for Jews, don't you know? The most popular dating app in American Judaism. For Jews who want to have sex with Jews nearby. So come on, prove you're nearby.

- Crazy! Why only Jews?

- We prefer Jewish men, or J's, as they're called here. I'm sure you'll understand why from the shape of the letter.

- Are you making fun of a black cat in the middle of the night?

- Well, Jews are the best at sex, didn't you know? Look even at the OkCupid data. Jewish men are the most sought-after demographic in America by women of all other races, and at the bottom are Asian men. And likewise, Jewish women are preferred by men of all other races, with Black women at the bottom. These are real data of what happens on the site. Not a survey or gut feeling. Including one-night stands.

- But why? The cat doesn't understand. Isn't our dream supposed to be shiksas?

- Listen, kitty, circumcised men last much longer, and anyone born to a Jewish mother lives with an active complex of pleasing women. And on the flip side - everyone knows that Jewish women are the leaders of the new sex in the US, and actually in the world. From academia to popular culture. It started with Freud and Philip Roth and ended with Ruth Westheimer and Rachel Bloom. What did you think, that Jews would neglect the hottest field in capitalism? Our sexual capital is at the top of the pyramid. So maybe we can contribute a bit from the American cousin, and that's maybe what I'm trying to figure out here, and what you're trying to schnorr here. So where's your real location? Don't tell me you're in the Holy Land.

- But that's not what the diaspora is supposed to do at all! We were exiled from our land and distanced from our soil to have sex between cultures, that is, to mate Jewish culture with gentile culture.

- You're definitely in Israel! I actually met some very cute ultra-Orthodox men. Much better than the disgusting Israeli men. How did you Israelis manage to ruin Jewish sex?

- Well, it's Zionism's fault, not ours. But is this the project of American Jewry, sex?

- It's become the most leading and avant-garde field in culture, thanks to Judaism. The engine of social revolutions, the last successful project of liberalism. What's better, to settle? Is that Israel's project? How unsexy! A real betrayal of the Jewish destiny.

- You in America always complain about Israeli golems and don't see the hump. The problem is that you're not settling! Diaspora Judaism is the one betraying its sexual destiny, not the Zionists. After we failed at sex with Germans, we need to have sex with slant-eyed people.

- What?

- Come on, expand your sexual perspective a bit, as the Zohar teaches us. The fact that there aren't enough Jews in China and Japan is the great failure of world Jewry in the last century. That's where we should have settled, mated, and culturally fertilized. You got stuck, where's the wandering Jew? It's time we reach Japan. The Japanese and Chinese and Koreans don't hate us. They don't know what antisemitism is, they even like Jews. And this shows that Jewish culture is betraying its destiny, which is to be hated all over the world. It shows we have no impact there. The goal of the people of Israel is to be like Joseph, who in the secret doctrine is the foundation organ, the divine phallus that penetrates the world, and all his brothers hate him because of his crazy dreams. But it's precisely these dreams that ultimately save them. That's the whole story. Those who don't want to dip his shirt in blood - it's a sign he's not wearing the striped coat. A million Jews in Japan and a million Jews in China - this should be the goal of Judaism in the next century. This is the dream for the next century instead of Zionism. And then there will be a cultural flourishing of true Jewish-Eastern culture.

- You know what they say about Asian men?

- Listen, from a sexo-historical perspective, the cheeky Jews need to mate with an orderly culture of the German type, like the phenomenal Jewish coupling with the German world before the Holocaust, but one that hasn't killed them yet. That's why Japan is the new Germany, the Germany of the future. The Japanese will turn Jewish creativity into methodology and implement things like the Germans, while the Chinese will already copy from the Japanese, and thus a million Jews in Japan will be the head of the world, or more precisely the shtreimel of the world, because Japan is the most eastern, but disconnected from the body of the world, and therefore it is the hat of Eurasia and the crown of the whole world.

- But the US is at the top of the world, we're the highest! That's why the Jews are here.

- No, no, that's a mistake in orientation. You're the lowest. After all, the fact that north is up on the map is a colonialist convention, established by the northern countries. According to the biblical map, the east is actually in front, which is why it's called kedem [meaning both "east" and "forward" in Hebrew], while the western sea is behind and therefore the Mediterranean is called the last sea. Right is teimana, south, while left is north, the sitra achra. Therefore, we need to start looking forward and progressing, beyond the Arabs, beyond the Iranians, beyond even India and the mountains of darkness, which is the farthest horizon that Israelis see, to reach the farthest east, the most forward, the highest - to the land of the rising sun. Well kitty, it was nice to spend the night with you, but it's time for the morning Shema. This is exactly the idea of the holy Zohar, which awaits us in the east at the end of the dark night of the Shechinah's exile. Because redemption, like sunrise, comes from kedem - from the place that is both the most advanced and the most ancient, both the most futuristic and the most traditional. And this is exactly the secret of Japan, which is the crown, the highest sefirah - and therefore to which we should make aliyah. And the Japanese, by the way, don't have sex (because they don't do "sex"), and that's what we need to connect to. The two most ancient-innovative cultures in the world, the Jews and the Japanese - against the whole world. Leave the stupid Americans already.

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First place in The Degeneration of the Nation's short story competition: "Geography is a Matter of Pornography"

Judges' reasoning: "Geography is a Matter of Pornography" is a live report from the contemporary battlefield of gender relations - dating sites, seemingly written in real-time during the competition's publication on Passover eve. The broader Israeli reality, outside the state of "Haaretz", is reflected in it as an intense mix of traditionalism with permissiveness and secularism with righteousness - which in turn produces a new and daring ideology, both sexual and religious. As Passover turns into a porn festival, and personal sexual history collides with the frustrating technological present, and the ants remind us of the Israelites in Egypt, and breasts remind us of the yeshiva, and the stream of consciousness swirls and revolves around itself at increasing speed - the story reaches a new male festival of freedom at the center of the hurricane, in the eye of the storm.

By: Kosher Porn for Passover

Porn - The Elephant in the Room (Source)

Geography is a Matter of Pornography

I met someone on a dating site who wrote in her profile that she knows she's losing almost everyone here - but she's looking for someone who doesn't watch porn. Or for whom porn is a complex issue. Someone who watches but is aware it's not good for him, who might be willing to reduce, and if he's willing to examine the matter she'd be very happy to meet. The wording was heartbreaking: on one hand, the "shall not be seen nor found" of removing leavened bread - and on the other hand, waking up in the middle of the night to find your partner eating a biscuit in bed.

I immediately contacted her and said I don't watch, but not for ideological reasons. Because if you're hungry for bread, why would you want to see cakes on a screen? And I asked: do all men really watch? And she said that since she wrote that, she's had no responses. I said she's convincing me to try, maybe other men know something I don't. Maybe I'm just stupid and old-fashioned. And she said I'm not old-fashioned because she doesn't watch either and isn't old-fashioned. And I thought that if really everyone watches - even within relationships - then this is a secret social revolution. Could it be that porn is the male response to feminism? But I realized there was hope this time.

Because on dating sites you always have to think about what your relative advantage is compared to other men for the woman who's choosing. Because they're flooded. And because all the guys are running away, here I could get someone like her who would never want me otherwise. Like all of them. And here, for the approaching holiday, I received a gift from the site: a rare chance to escape the effect known as "the juice of the garbage" - the stage where only the most problematic in forming relationships remain and they still need to get along with each other. But she didn't want to say what she does for a living, because it's complex, and didn't answer questions and didn't want to give an email, only a phone number. So despite warning lights flashing, I asked for it right on the eve of the holiday. Because I really wanted to have someone so I'd feel that this Passover I'm leaving Egypt.

And right at candle lighting she sent the phone number and wrote me happy holiday and that we'd talk after. So I searched for the phone number on Google while the ultra-Orthodox uncles I went to - because I had nowhere else to be - were already pressuring me hard to close the phone because the sun was setting. And I discovered that she's a freak of militant feminism that only considers what the woman wants, especially in sex. Preaching. Do only what you want. Only what YOU want. And then I saw that her research dealt with pain during penetration. And I already felt like I was invading her privacy but I started entering all the places where she writes to women and discovered that the girl can't have sexual intercourse. And she built a whole ideology from this that sex isn't penetration and tries to convince other women of this too and opposes treating the problem. And she's entirely dedicated to destroying penetration.

And at first I thought I'd think about it, digest it, but then I felt I didn't want it to enter my soul all holiday and also why should she wait and be disappointed at the end. And what I hated most was myself, that here all the men who watch porn are the ones who are right and only I always fall for these sick ones. How can a man live without the most meaningful thing for him. What, just to touch breasts? And I also understood that I mustn't write her the truth because I'm hurting a poor disabled person. What kind of dark secret is it that she felt she had to share it with the whole world and ruin her life because of it. Dedicate her life to it. And drive away any chance of a relationship.

And I snuck the phone to the bathroom so I could write, while they're singing Ha Lachma Anya, it didn't help how much they called me from the bathroom. At moments like these you need to try to muster all your tact. And it got deleted three times and didn't send because there's no reception in the bathroom. Until I held the phone outside the ventilation window and begged God to get me out of this and finally somehow managed, hoping without hurting, but not like the first draft which was successful and sensitive. And it turned out I spent an hour in the bathroom and arrived in the middle of the Seder.

I wrote to her that I Googled and discovered, and that I have a very big aversion to political engagement, certainly in the sexual realm, by virtue of being an old-fashioned and conservative man who yearns for normal relationships, and who is repelled by porn as he is repelled by movies in general. And anyway I'm on the wrong side of history. That my aversion to pornography stems from being stuck in the past, unlike her who is stuck in the future. That I don't put myself in the battlefield between the sexes, certainly not when I'm on the losing side. That I'm sure I'm phrasing things in a messed up way and that she'll hate me but I'm here on the toilet, holding the door so it doesn't open from inside because it barely closes, at the ultra-Orthodox hosts, and everything's already been deleted for me and I'm writing again from scratch and maybe not as well. And apologizing for disappointing her on the eve of the holiday meal. And maybe that's why I'm alone. Hope this sends this time... and sorry.

And all holiday I thought about what she would answer me, because I didn't dare open the phone again. It makes a noise when it opens. And I thought about what I would answer her, what if she gets angry or offended. And how I hate her. After all, she and pornography are in the same category for me, both are agents trying to kill what I love most.

And then I went to synagogue. Because they asked me what I was still doing at home and that everyone had already gone. And I sat there in prayer without saying a word and thought that I need to repent. And I looked in the women's section from below, to see if there are more normal women there than the secular ones. And I couldn't see because everything is dark there. But I thought maybe someone would see me looking and think about me and maybe even ask. But I realized that maybe they wouldn't like me looking. And that I need to pretend I'm praying. And I turned to the front side of God, because the women are behind, and I looked at the wall and despaired. All the girls on the site, how much time I wasted on you, on trying to attract your attention with words. And it didn't help me. Because what always determined were the pictures.

And somewhere it's already better to be alone. Another person is a nightmare. Unless it's a woman. But women today are no longer a woman. They're a person. Who needs that. After all, every time I start with someone and in the end it doesn't work after I courted and made an effort - I suddenly feel relief. Because why should I look for a queen and then have to serve her. So here, I've done my part and I'm clean before God and man. And can finally eat. Don't need to think about a growing belly, or what she'll think about these things you write and don't show anyone. And her you'll have to show. And then she won't like, or she'll say yes but suddenly feel like she's looking at you differently. Or, and this is most correct, that she's not interested at all.

And I fled from the synagogue and went to sit in the back, and found myself among ants. For years I haven't observed ants. Spring has come, an ant has arrived. And I'm looking at these ants running in a visual pattern too complex for me to grasp and I'm getting high from it. Because apparently I accidentally stepped on some convoy there before I sat down. Because there seems to be some scurrying and checking and assessment of the situation there, as if there had been an attack. And it's like the Germans may their name be erased these industrious ants. And I think why is the ant so efficient, unlike almost any other animal? Because they don't reproduce. This answer pops into my head and immediately I understand there's more depth to it than I thought, and I must find it.

Because the lazy and messed up among other species do reproduce. While a lazy ant whose genes got messed up let's say, it can happen like to any animal, but unlike it they don't reproduce and don't pass it on. And only who programs the ants, the queen, she inherits. And therefore their programming will always be good. Meaning there is no selfish gene in ants. And suddenly these ants scared me, after all I don't see countless separate creatures here, but only one creature, divided into many black pieces moving frantically. And this is exactly like how the cells in the body are all industrious. Disciplined. The cells are much more efficient than the whole person. And that's because they don't reproduce. Only the sex cells reproduce, and therefore they are lazy and easily messed up. Meaning all the body cells including in the brain are all judged exploited by the sex cells. That's where the queen sits.

And suddenly I understood the connection between evolution and psychoanalysis - that everything is sex. And from that to feminism. Because it's exactly like the rabbi said in the synagogue that there are 4 different levels in a person corresponding to 4 cups: body, soul, spirit and essence. So evolution is the internalization that everything is sex at the body level, and psychoanalysis the internalization that everything is sex in the soul, and feminism is sexuality as spirit, as gender, and now will come the era where even in the essence they'll say everything is sex. Sex as the measure of all things, including in the essence, including in writing itself. Because literature can also be treated as the sexuality of culture. Where the genetic code is. For example of the religions of the Book. And therefore there is so much laziness and inefficiency and misses there, there are almost no perfect works that editing wouldn't improve. Even the Bible looks like a genetic code that was edited carelessly. Things that don't work well - that's where things reproduce. Therefore sexuality is such a messed up thing, the system that works worst in the body, more than digestion, nerves, growth, anything else. And the brain is also messed up. Because it too is a king. It is after all part of the sexual system, because it determines who to mate with and does it badly. Attracted to unattainable girls and asshole guys. Prefers huge breasts over mothering skills. And instead of real women with real craziness - porn.

And then I remembered the dream about the cows. Because after the Seder night I snuck a glass of milk before sleep to fall asleep, after they had already fallen asleep without them seeing, because we ate meat. And I thought that all this mixing of milk and meat - that's the secret of breasts. And then at night I dreamed that I had to choose the animal I would most want as a partner, and I deliberated between all kinds of animals, until I chose a doe, I traveled to the Carmel to catch one, but she kept running away and didn't want to, and when I put her in a cage she tried to bite me and I couldn't catch her. I'm many things but not a rapist. And the closest thing was that they told me you'll choose cows, because they have the biggest breasts, but I didn't want to choose the cows standing there in the barn. If already the sexiest animal it's a doe. Although animals are disgusting. But what can you do?

The good girls are rare and taken. Although breasts are seemingly within reach, still wandering here and there, it's not such a rare trait in the population. And it's really not fair that women have such a weapon that will always bring me back to them no matter what. I wish them to go to hell but I can't resist that charm. Too bad there aren't institutions for weaning from this thing, after all that's the original meaning of weaning, weaning from breasts. Let's say "Anonymous Breasts". Because we were all addicted. Born addicted. And then they try to encourage the addict that if he managed to wean from breasts then he'll succeed in weaning from the drug, and that's why they call it weaning, that's the Freudian meaning. But it's a lie, because he never weaned from breasts.

As long as I can remember myself they were a dizzying thing, their round shape causes such a whirlpool in the brain, and at the center of the hurricane, the calm at the heart of the storm, the nipple, and with all that I could still deal if there weren't two hurricanes in opposite directions, between which darkness and shadow of death, meaning some entrance to the heart, but you can't really penetrate the heart, and therefore it's a built-in miss, as if everything is built for you to enter there, but precisely there at the peak of attraction, in the most magical valley - there's no hole. In the Talmud they call this place "the glory of her beauty". They say that Gehazi pushed with the height of rudeness the Shunammite woman, who came to beg the prophet Elisha to save her son, and they ask where he pushed her, and answer in the glory of her beauty, and Rashi interprets that this is the place between the breasts, where the peak of a woman's beauty is, this is in Tractate Berachot and it's the thing I remember most from the whole tractate.

I remember the first time I saw breasts, it's one of my earliest memories. I was a 4 year old child and was frightened by the neighbor breastfeeding her child, she had like long worms spilling there, breasts that seemed to me to be falling and falling to the floor, huge, she did it next to the neighbors, and I saw and was very afraid of it, I was frightened that maybe other women also have such things, and I was probably afraid that maybe my mother also has them, although it was clear that my mother doesn't have them, but this is apparently a mutation of nature, something not normal, in my memory they fell at least about 40 cm down, and I think the neighbors said something about it, that only she has them, in any case I remember those breasts to this day, no one thought they needed to hide such a thing from a 4 year old child and at that time all the men were at work in the afternoon so she could simply breastfeed there in the yard next to the other women, during a neighbors' conversation, I remember I saw and ran away.

It's possible I ran home to check that my mother doesn't have such things, but it still scared me that such things could grow on women, and how does it happen, because I think the neighbors remarked something there about these huge breasts, which today of course I would die to touch and grab, but then seemed to me simply scandalous, a disease even, something unnatural, I remember the huge fear, and the even bigger fear that to everyone it seemed natural, it's one of those childhood fears that you felt and didn't tell anyone, that you were ashamed of the fear itself, because I immediately understood that there's something shameful about it, about the whole story.

There were many such fears, which were terrible, but precisely because of that you didn't tell anyone. I'm sure there were but I can't remember any now, but I'm sure I can remember. I was such a child who was very mature and open ostensibly and talks with adults, on the other hand always hiding from adults with a feeling that there are things that are forbidden to say even though they're obvious but precisely because of that you need to hide them, because it's a very deep shame that they would know, and especially that they would know that I know. And so I walked around with the fear of breasts and what women have in their chest, maybe the kindergarten teacher also has it, maybe it's contagious, it was clear to me that it's something not okay and precisely because others treated it as okay it's dangerous.

And then I also remember the first time I heard about porn. Today elementary school children watch porn but then it wasn't like that. It was in connection to one of the students in the yeshiva high school who always talked obsessively about breasts and was always amusing his best friend with it, the most handsome student in the class, with pleasure and embarrassment. And then it was revealed to me after a decade, from a story I wasn't supposed to hear, that he's gay. And in retrospect all the talk about breasts was meant from his perspective to arouse the friend, that's why he disguised his homosexuality precisely in the greatest vulgarity towards women. But actually, it can't be that I was so blind and he really loved women. And they told about him that he would go first to porn movies, and then they told for the first time what porn is, and it seems to me they knew what porn is more than him. Because he was terribly shy and every time a girl talked near him he would get confused and blush like the red of the watermelon (he's the one who invented the fruit categories of breasts that became the class classification). Or maybe a gay man can also love breasts, just not love women. And actually the gay man is one who wants to penetrate between the breasts.

The ants had already gone home, maybe they found some piece of bread from the removal of leavened bread, and I thought to myself that it's a shame they didn't make me the rabbi instead of the nudnik babbling there now. And because of him the prayer doesn't end and they go to eat. Because I would explain to them about the two challah loaves of Shabbat, which are certainly a Freudian symbol for breasts. And in contrast the matzahs of Passover are porn, two-dimensional bread of affliction that didn't rise. And if so Passover is the festival of porn. We remembered the watermelons we used to eat in Egypt! - I would bang on the podium and wake up the sleepers. And then preach enthusiastically to the holy congregation: After all, why did we go down to Egypt in the first place if not to break bread? How fun it was in the granary of the ancient world, before this desert. There, between the pyramids, it was good for the last time! Yes, we really only want girls. Only women are the future. Every son that is born you shall cast into the river. And then you still need to bring him a wet nurse from the Hebrew women so he doesn't die. Addicted to breasts, addicted. We were slaves, slaves. And now thanks to porn - free men.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

World War Zero

After decades in which sexual politics was the central politics, it's actually not surprising that the conflict escalated to violent dimensions. After all, sexual terrorism had existed long before

By: New Historian

Why did the war break out? - The Neuro-Historical School versus the Historians of Consciousness (Source)

The first war of the next century was unprecedented, and yet the oldest war in the world. Many historians argued that it was the most artificial of all world wars, but many politicians claim it was the most natural, and that the great wonder is that it didn't happen before, because it was conducted between two groups whose division is more fundamental than any national or religious or tribal or economic division, truly two types of human beings, almost two different animals, as the fighting proved: men and women.

According to them, the moment physical technology eliminated the male physical advantage in combat, it was only a matter of time before thousands of generations of hostility between the two genders would erupt. Of course, there were families torn between the two camps, and as in any war, not everyone participated, but the displays of violence were widespread, sometimes within the same family, and the global killing field that was created turned the whole world into a front.

Some see the basis for the war in the formation of areas and countries with a defined sexual character, feminine countries and masculine countries, which experimented with different types of regimes, from control by one sex, to various preferences and discriminations, and sometimes even slavery and apartheid. People of past centuries could not imagine how millions of men would live and even immigrate to countries where male inferiority is institutionalized, and claim themselves their sexual, emotional, and cultural inferiority and sometimes even intellectual inferiority to the female class - or in certain places race - superior. How these men would declare that history distorted the natural place of man at the bottom of the social ladder, and would derive great satisfaction from their new status, and declare that they are happier and even more sexually satisfied in a matriarchy.

How millions of women and men disappointed in each other, and hating each other, would move to countries where only same-sex relations are legal, or satisfaction from robotic dolls and prostitutes of the opposite sex. How the divorce rate that reached almost 100% and the enormous rate of sexual assaults and the absolute distrust in the opposite sex, along with the death of love, the invention of sexual substitutes, and the destruction of the institution of the family, would bring billions of people into the arms of charismatic leaders feeding on and spreading sexual hatred, and even gender fascists, including those calling for the total extermination of the opposite sex, since technology no longer needs it for reproduction.

Of course, there were egalitarian societies or strange queer policies that were neutral in the conflict, but after decades in which sexual politics was the central politics, it's actually not surprising that the conflict escalated to violent dimensions. After all, sexual terrorism had existed long before, in extremist cells, and the choice of their provocative targets incited the genders against each other. Women who castrated men, and men who raped women - these were acts of terror whose videos were published every day and inflamed passions for years. The women's movement that was willing to give birth only to daughters, or the men's movement that replaced women with an artificial womb and gave birth only to men - these were the buds of the new-ancient division of human society.

Female historians argued that the hostility is a product of thousands of years of oppression and male historians argued that it was precisely the counter-oppression that gave birth to the hatred, and especially female incitement. Historians of ideas claim that gender hostility is rooted even earlier, in the division of human culture into two de facto cultures: female culture and male culture. They point to the moment in history when women's literature was read and written mainly by women and men's literature was read and written mainly by men, until two parallel and largely hostile cultural traditions were created, and all areas of art, interest, and even popular culture split into two spiritual genders that despised each other. The few and fragile cultural bridges built between them gradually collapsed. Even the language already sounded different.

In fact, the neurological difference between the two sexes created two alternative realities, once the press and culture adapted themselves so closely and personally to the consumer's brain, and the naturally conflicting sexual interests (yes, nature created this inherent mismatch) were the root of the abhorrence - according to the school of neuro-historians. The male and female religions that painted the opposite sex in demonic colors and attributed impurity and abomination to it were also blamed, especially by a stream of historians of consciousness. From the moment Christianity split between the Christianity of Mary and that of Jesus, and from the moment many believers claimed that God is a woman, this school claimed, the seed of calamity was sown.

And after Western philosophy split into male philosophy and female philosophy (as in the past there were the Continental and Analytical traditions) whose concepts are different and there is no bridging discourse between them, the physical confrontation was only a distant result of the spiritual confrontation, which can be seen in the ancient conflict between God and the Shekhinah [Translator's note: Divine feminine presence in Judaism], or between Zeus and Hera, or in any other primordial mythology. The world war that destroyed the human species was the fulfillment of a prophecy as old as sex itself.

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