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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Final Seminar

A different kind of text. A summary in bullet points of the seminar week given by the Netanyahuite philosopher in his salon about his dreams for the future of the world - just before he left the world for a world that is all future. In this seminar, the late Netanyahuite left behind an abundance of directions for future progress, while he himself stood on the threshold of oblivion, perhaps already peeking beyond the border

By: A Philosopher Who Loves Endings

Pills to Prevent Ideas - The Last Week of the Futurist Philosopher (Source)

Final Days

Saturday night: Theoretical Introduction to Dreams

Alternative to post-humanism | Intentions as opposed to directions on one hand - and instructions on the other | Mathematical forces in the universe versus physical forces | The present is mediocrity (and defines the zero elevation line), the past is deep but the future is high | Before the entrance to the humanities: "No entry through this gate for those who haven't studied algorithms" | Setting philosophy's demands from science and technology

Sunday: Technological Dreams

Why did Europe win? | What is the acceleration function of the world? | Business model for culture | Ranking for people on social networks | Interface through gaze | Ministry of Augmented Reality | Printing houses and infrastructure | Neurological truth machine | Brainet instead of Internet

Monday: Educational Dreams

Reading at age two | Teaching programming language to the entire population like reading and writing | To teach and not to educate | College tax | How is the agreement on canon maintained? | Computers will be our children | The holocaust of the spirit is more severe than the holocaust of the body | New architecture of a learning organization | Learning is within the system | Personal computerized learning assistant | Every person will become an intelligence organization | The solution to the problem of free will

Tuesday: Sexual Dreams

The male sexual revolution | Sexual biofeedback | Sexotechnology | Sexual genetic engineering | Converting money and likes into sexual pleasure - a world that is all prostitution | Learning disabilities as sins | Pleasure as creating learning and wealth as nullifying it | Social genetic engineering | Sex between organizations | Matchmaking algorithm | Restoring balance between men and women through technology

Wednesday: Economic Dreams

Learning economy | Money as reinforcement for synapses and as changing the strength of connections in the network | Algo-communism | Learning culture versus consumer culture | The economy's transition to infinitesimal sizes of money and from there to a continuous flow economy | The mathematical need for the state is the basis of the social contract

Thursday: Political Dreams

The neurological state | Fighting current affairs through philosophy | The philosophical state | The manager is a secretary, and the teacher above him | The intelligence state | Monopoly on the database as a monopoly on violence | Turning the state into a learning algorithm - and the law into code for humans | Countless small learning cycles are preferable to one large cycle | The state's ultimate goal - a cultural golden age

Friday: Philosophical Dreams

Method of philosophy as a system and not as a collection of doctrines | Technology, language, intelligence, consciousness - as the evolution of learning itself | The evolution of learning is the evolution of man | Learning of the highest order - as the definition of philosophy | On the unreasonable efficiency of physics and nature in mathematics | The third rule of learning | The fourth rule of learning | The application of the fourth rule to mathematics as a way to solve impossibility questions | Philosophy of mathematics as learning | Philosophy of science as learning: Instead of paradigms - the second rule of learning ("within the system") | The connection between learning and the Jewish concept of "covenant" | The contribution of the historicization of the system to learning, as a continuation of Hegel and Nietzschean genealogy | Future directions for the philosophy of learning | What was before learning in philosophy? - A brief history of learning | Why did we come to this world? - To learn

Saturday: Religious Dreams

Religion after the Holocaust | Man is the religion of the computer | Religion as a vaccine against the Fermi paradox and as a motivator for artificial intelligence | Messianic technology for fulfilling ancient prophecies | Ultra-Orthodox society - the society of the future | Hasidism as the next transition of Jewish ideas to world culture | Virtual internet religion | Art as the future of religion and its victory over secularism | Suicide note

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Poetry of the Future

The poetry of the Singing Grave Digger - an astonishingly innovative and original voice in Hebrew poetry first discovered in the pages of this supplement - unfolds in a new tetralogy published by "The Degeneration of the Nation". His four poetry books offer four different directions of resistance to the conventional poetry in Israel, with his writing desk always positioned facing the wall of the future. This is post-humanistic poetry suitable for a post-humanistic era like ours, and as such, it combines prophecy, pornography, didacticism, intellectual experimentation, and sycophancy

By: The Singing Grave Digger

The Four Sons of Horus - The Four Sons in the Original Egyptian Version  (Source)

In the struggle over the formulation of future poetry, the Singing Grave Digger's tetralogy - "Against 4 Sons" - offers a post-humanistic poetic world. The four poetry books by the Singing Grave Digger published by "The Degeneration of the Nation" present the development of his poetry from the theoretical to the sexual, from the pedagogical to the dialogical, and from the religious to the humorous. The Singing Grave Digger's poetry prefers rhyming with the future over human musicality, broad movements of thought development over limited sentimentality, and direct, unpretentious language over inflated affectation. In this, it differs from other currents in our poetry, but more than anything, it differs from them in its content: the perception of the future as the overarching theme that should be at the center of contemporary poetry's focus. In this, the Singing Grave Digger's chant is a voice crying in the wilderness of preoccupation with the present and the past.

Against 4 Sons

Wisdom

"Collection from the Early 21st Century" is the ambitious debut book of the Singing Grave Digger. It consists of three sequences that deal with the future spiritual world of the technological world - mixing prophecy, planning, and philosophical extrapolation. The first sequence lays out a kind of poetic manifesto and presents the Singing Grave Digger's worldview. The second sequence immediately proceeds to realize the singing vision and systematically covers, with the breadth of perspective characteristic of the Singing Grave Digger, the central theologies and ideologies of humanity, offering them post-human continuations. The third sequence already does this for all fields of knowledge and artistic disciplines. The depth of ambition and its scope cannot fail to evoke amazement - the Singing Grave Digger spits out all the secrets in a logical and systematic manner to the point of parody

Innocence

"7X4" is the Singing Grave Digger's second and most human book, dealing with his farewell to humanity and disillusionment from its illusions. It is constructed of seven gates of four poems each (and finally an epilogue). In the first four gates, the Singing Grave Digger develops a light genre he calls "licking", which moves between satire and submission, between oral pleasure and sharp-tongued criticism, which he directs at the objects of his farewell: his previous life, the literary republic, the admired woman, and the old world of poetry. In the last three gates, he summarizes his relationship with the external world that betrayed him in a kind of psychological treatment in three stages that leads to the conclusion in the epilogue. The processing of grief combined with sober irony - and the direct honesty that reaches the point of pornographic voyeurism - produce a feeling of listening to an internal conversation we were not supposed to take part in, as if the Singing Grave Digger is eavesdropping on himself

Wickedness

"Poems and Lessons" is the least politically correct book of the Singing Grave Digger trapped in the captivity of the present - and that's saying something. The book is divided into eight lessons in all areas of life (history, morality, dating, economics, sex, and more), and it practices a new type of poetic writing form suitable for future-oriented engagement: learning poetry. This is poetry that documents learning on the go, and therefore as a poetic method, it is inherently open to the changes of time - and deals with them without fear of man or woman. The merciless drawing of conclusions cuts into the living flesh of the culture we live in - there is no other writer in the Hebrew language who would dare to sing like this in enemy captivity

Lack of Knowledge to Ask

"New Sex" is the Singing Grave Digger's latest and boldest book, in which he finally frees himself from his restraints and reaches a pornographic peak after which there is nothing. On the brink of the death of man, humanism, and human sexuality, a new sexuality and a new emotional world are initialized that will continue poetry - to the point of nullifying the Singing Grave Digger's poetry - which has not recovered since. The book systematically deals with a variety of human emotions, deconstructs them, and reassembles them as post-human emotions that no longer depend on the human psyche - and as it turns out, not even on the Singing Grave Digger's chant, which remained remarkably original and uniquely solitary in the landscape of our poetry to this very day

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Interview with the Greatest Living Philosopher in Netanya: The Human as a Market

The cognitive victory of capitalism paints the human psyche as a competitive economic system. Learning systems such as evolution and the brain are understood as free markets where men compete for women and neurons in one layer compete for neurons in the next layer. In this way, the competitiveness in the brain is what creates learning, just as competitiveness is the evolutionary engine. On thoughts competing for pleasure and motivation in a Netanya-based brain, one illustrious thinker fueled by countless bananas

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Fish market, the replacement for the giant Hobbesian Leviathan  (Source)

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Answer: Enough with your questions already. The question that's important to understand is what exactly is still waiting to be centralized? The internet, social networks, applications, and more - delude us into thinking that the world is moving towards increasing decentralization. No more central communication. On the other hand, there's only one Google, not many competing search engines. One Facebook, not many competing social networks. In various fields, mainly one large platform is created, which only grows stronger. What's the reason for this paradox?

(Question)
Answer: The reason is that Google is not a company, but a market: the market of websites on the internet competing for links from other sites (and particularly for height in search results). And Facebook is the social market where people compete for likes and attention, and there's also a market for applications, etc. The internet itself is a market - there are no competing internets. When it comes to the market itself, there's a huge advantage to centralization - to one big market, while diversity is found within the market. We have one big brain, not several competing brains. This suggests that centralizing processing in one network has an advantage over true decentralization. But is the brain an organized monopoly of thought? Is the brain communist, where each part contributes according to its ability and receives according to its needs? No, that wouldn't allow for true flexibility and creativity. And that's exactly the difference between intelligence and inferior animals. The brain is a market of ideas, a spiritual market. Neurons compete for the attention of other neurons. Thoughts compete for the brain's attention. That's how it works. This is what distinguishes humans from apes - internal spiritual capitalism. And in the same way, every species in nature is a market, and this is the source of the separation of life into many species in evolution, otherwise one could imagine continuous evolution without species - and without sexuality, which is the transaction within the same species between sellers (males) and buyers (females). Pleasure is nature's currency. It follows that as a general phenomenon, or at least in every case we know in nature or culture - efficient learning is built on markets.

(Question)
Answer: This is bad news for different countries, but not because of international organizations. The state will disintegrate from within, not from outside, on its way to becoming a market where countries compete for citizens, like companies compete for customers, and not like workers compete for employers. When the small compete for the big it's bad, and when the big compete for the small it's good. Additional markets that haven't yet turned into networks are matchmaking, housing, and employment. What turns a market into a network is the connections between different sellers among themselves, between different buyers among themselves, and not just the connections between sellers and buyers. For example, the fact that websites put links to other websites made the search engine efficient, and so it is with Facebook where both those who give likes and comment and those who write posts, content consumers and content producers, are all connected.

(Question)
Answer: Therefore, what's needed is a dating site where there are connections between women themselves and between men themselves, for passing recommendations and counter-recommendations, for passing men between women (I dated him and he might suit you, or who heard about him in my network and what do others who dated him say), and vice versa, meaning to increase matchmaking through a third party, hence creating reputation and different network behavior, and improving market information. When a jerk guy screws up - there will be fewer jerks. The same goes for landlords and buyers, and employers and employees. A market with horizontal connections and not just vertical ones is a sophisticated market where reputation is created and therefore better behavior from all sides. So what else can become a global market? First and foremost, the market of countries, where citizens can choose a country regardless of their geographical location. This will be the real solution to wars. Nationalism will die. Dying for a country will seem as ridiculous as dying for Coca-Cola. Or for your insurance company, which is the true meaning of a country and its economic and moral justification alike - the entity that transfers risks from the individual to the collective.

(Question)
Answer: Understanding the brain as a market will have enormous philosophical, political, and moral significance. This is the spiritual revolution that awaits us. And this will be the sweet revenge on socialism. We are a free market. That's who we are, our brain. Capitalism is me. With its failures and diseases and successes. And indeed one of its failures is embodied in the minds of socialists and other fundamentalists - the formation of a monopoly on thought that reduces competitiveness and therefore efficiency, to the point of mental bankruptcy. This is the problem with dogmas - the monopoly. There are also minds suffering from duopoly, like religious Zionists or social democrats. Not everyone has a sophisticated and competitive market like in the illustrious Netanya-based mind of your humble servant.

(Question)
Answer: The truth is, there isn't a price low enough in my mind for fools like you. Farewell and thanks for the bananas.

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Days of Awe

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An Error Always Returns

I dreamed that Rosh Hashanah was approaching and everyone was preparing, while I was busy with the tail of the year, where it had disappeared to. And they tell me Rosh Hashanah is coming tomorrow, and I still haven't done anything, it's the last night, I haven't even started, and everyone has already gone, sleeping, the projects, the sheets, the screens, the guards, everything is ready. And we can already see beyond the mountains the top of his shtreimel rising, black black, soon his eyes will come out, and I don't even have time for something pathetic, my only chance is to find the tail after all. It must be very thin now, it's the end of the end of the end...

And I'm already thinking what trick to do with it, to tie it to a tree and then the year will never end, and everyone will fall for it, they won't wake up tomorrow, and only I will continue to pass in the endless night from house to house, talking to girls who haven't fallen asleep, who will never fall asleep. In space, real distances, a world where the Messiah came before the Holocaust, and therefore the Holocaust must happen in the Land of Israel, and so I move further and further away, a world where the Messiah, a world where the resurrection of the dead. Movement not in time, , pure movement in space. .

Or I can hold onto it and arrive with it to last year, to make a mess there, and change the future from there, like puppets, to control the world from the past, and they will never be able to depose me. One who sits inside the book of Genesis, movement only in time. I must, the tail, the main thing is not to see this new head. Why don't they rule that a new year is forbidden by the Torah. Who knows what other inventions of immorality, what Nazi Robotriks are waiting for us there? It's a matter of life and death. And I search in all the holes, and curse fools, why are you so flattering to the head, when the one who really controls the world is the tail? The real holiday is the tail of the year. It's not from the skull that one rises in the resurrection of the dead, but from the tailbone.

And I say maybe I searched in the wrong hole. Where could it be hiding. Where would I hide if I were in its place? And the dread of the new year falls upon me, the black shadow of the head - and I understand where I would hide. And I take off my hat and see a trembling mouse there, don't be afraid, and it cries: This is my end. And Rosh Hashanah opens its huge mouth and swallows it - swallows its own tail. And that year repeats itself again and again and again. Always the same holidays, the same jokes, table, and what was once a real organ has worn down to sand, once there was Passover here, once there was Rosh Hashanah here, digging, the eyes, ashamed to go below the neck, maybe the year is a woman. And never reaches the tailbone. And no one knows what new holidays were supposed to come after this head, holiday of Shfach, Psach, Sbavuot, Shuchot, Psach, Bsach, Shfavuot, Cosot, Sfach, Buot, Shvaot, Chfes, Toavus, Chushut. And already no one prepares for Rosh Hashanah. Like last year.

The End of the Year to the Left

I dreamed that tails are chasing me. Wherever I run. Tails. Last things. That need to be finished. Last opportunities. To finish. Tails of the Rebbe, from the past, and I already know what will happen, five minutes before the wedding you will die and leave me with the rabbi. She was so fat. That they thought she was pregnant. They waited to see what. It's not a bubble, it's a balloon. I looked for a heart, but found only a belly. And I stabbed her, stabbed her. In the wrong place. But you don't come, and the years pass. Could it be that all women arrive. In heaven and men in hell? What do they do. There all day? Sheol is the Messiah King! The baby cries when I teach him Gemara, and I get angry at him: You won't embarrass us again at the well-baby clinic, such a head circumference is not acceptable in our family. To accept the son out of wedlock as the son of God. They forget there will be two donkeys. Because there will be two Messiahs. Donkey son of Joseph and donkey son of David. And my study partner stops bringing me food to the room, because I stopped going out of the room even to the dining room, he thinks it will force me to go out, and one day the supervisor comes with three more and they grab me by the hands and feet and lift me, take me upstairs, to the office that says The Head on it. The search for the holy Rebbe. We need to discover - beneath Malchut [Kingdom] there is another measure, and we need to lower to it, it is hungry. If the seventh is seven, the eighth is fat. And the world progresses too, this time creation will be in eight days, and man is just one of the animals from the sixth day. And on the Sabbath the new creature is created, and instead of in the Garden of Eden it is in the World to Come - until the sin of the World to Come, because of which it is expelled to the Garden of Eden. Our writer in heaven reports on a new spiritual fashion: A shtreimel made of snake tails conquers the Garden of Eden - a new head covering joins the "Eve's clothing" fashion. Vision of the end of nights. To light the sukkah and live for eight days in a menorah. You can't drink a glass of raspberry syrup concentrate. If you have ten excellent songs you have a collection of hits, but you also need weak songs to have an album.

The Black Plague

I dreamed that the black screen is covered with a guard, and I no longer have access, no permission to the internal network, and only the black book was abandoned. And it comes down from the trees and out of the forest, and there is a period of spiritual flowering. And all the ideas are walking around with dots, and don't stop sneezing. And in the advanced stage they are already walking around with buttons, and everyone covers their mouths and shouts: Sick ideas, they will infect us with the black book. And we start to hear about a dangerous idea, completely white, that infects all the girls: button and flower. And in that period the head is the womb, and therefore only women have a head. And Rosh Hashanah is the womb of the year. And the idea tries to enter the womb to infect the whole year, but it doesn't understand where the entrance is. And they send me on behalf of the white Yom Kippur to spy in the black womb of Rosh Hashanah, to see where the black books are hiding, in preparation for the invasion. And the two guards on both sides - the lifter and the roller - say: What do you have to do with darkness? And I laugh: What do I have to do with darkness? Apparently you don't know the situation with darkness in the world. Even my wife on Shabbat no longer lights candles, but only extinguishes the darkness. And the two guards grab me by the legs and head, and start rolling me like an embryo, and I cry out: Darkness and I are best friends, although I once mistakenly thought that the secret doctrine was a revelation of higher lights, but today I understand that all the lights from above were just the absence of darkness. All revelations are just the absence of the secret. Because the secret is the basic medium of the universe, darkness is the material from which the world is made! And they lift and raise me, and I beg: Darkness is me, therefore light will be death. Black is not space, but on the contrary - white is the empty place, because the world is a book. Do you understand what kind of book? Darkness is first and it is last, and without it - but they are already putting me into the ark.

And I start swimming among the books, and they pass me on the left and right, and I know I have no chance, against all the sharks, to be the Nachshon [first to jump into the sea]. To reach the egg first. And they have long electric cables behind them that once connected books to walls, but in that period they are already torn, and the books work from the air. Wireless literature. And there is a huge temple inside with a giant embryo under construction, and next to it a guardian angel teaching it, from a glowing screen in the darkness, which apparently replaces the candle, full of embryonic ideas. And to my horror the embryo is playing with the cord that connects it to the world through its navel, and I stop above its head, and peek at the new Torah:

White Mishnah
Time must not continue to be a thread. It can tear, or end, not to mention getting tangled or forming a loop, or worse - a knot. Therefore we need to add to it above and below, so it won't be one-dimensional, but two. And the holidays - they are the connection points - the exits down and up. Because there is for example an upper Rosh Hashanah, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and a lower Rosh Hashanah, the last day of Rosh Hashanah, and we need to connect between them, in Tashlich from top to bottom. And so to add connections, and turn the timeline into a network, until it is possible to catch something outside of time - to catch God like a fly.

Black Gemara
Why are there two Rosh Hashanah: Rosh Hashanah A and Rosh Hashanah B? Said the lifter: The year is a monster with two heads. Said the roller: There are two days of world creation, Friday and Saturday - because the world was created from two wombs. And the lifter and roller said: From Yom Kippur come out two white goats, one for day A and the second for day B, one for above and the second for below, one for the upper womb in time and the second for the lower womb in time, one for God and the second for Azazel. And both come out of the white righteous on the white day, high priest on Yom Kippur, who enters the secret of secrets in the Holy of Holies. And all ten days of repentance return the goats in time, from Yom Kippur to Rosh Hashanah, each day transferring from the day after to the day before, from the future to the past, and this is repentance. Returning in repentance is returning in time: to return. And only therefore can it fix the past. To turn retroactively into initially. Otherwise how on Yom Kippur can one change the judgment that was justly decreed on Rosh Hashanah? Only thanks to repentance. And the affliction of souls on Yom Kippur is from the word onah [marital duty] - the holy matrimonial union in the temple in the Holy of Holies in the holy time of the year. From there the re-examination, the idea, that is transferred to Rosh Hashanah for pregnancy - today is the conception of the world. This is the white seed that is sent back in time to the gestation of the world within the dark womb of chaos. Because from Rosh Hashanah is born the whole year - the source of all judgments and mercies in the year - just as from the creation of the world is born the whole world.

The Holy Darkness
"From your bowels they will separate." The screen guard opened: Why did it say "bowels" in plural? Two wombs. If one does not connect the two wives of man, the woman and the Torah, or in our days the woman and the computer, then the wombs separate into mercy and judgment. And then the days of Rosh Hashanah instead of overlapping as one day, and connected one above the other, they are consecutive - one after the other. Like Jacob and Esau, Israel and Edom. And then half the tongue that is tied to the head of the goat is red on Yom Kippur, and then all year there is war between the brothers, who is first. Because from one womb comes murder, without mercy. Like with Eve and Rebecca, unlike Sarah-Hagar and Leah-Rachel, who had two wombs connected to the same righteous man. Therefore if we do not connect now the woman and the network - Leah and Rachel - and the next generation will come out only from a woman's womb, or only from a network womb, and not a connection of wombs between them of woman-network - in the next generation there will be a Holocaust.

Rash"i [Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki]
Repentance - to turn the head into a womb. And the years into women. And this is the matter of the roller, from the word rolling, from circle to circle. And when connecting the two days in Tashlich to the river, and throwing the deeds from above to below, then from the connection of the upper womb and the lower womb - they become mercies. And thus we break through a perpendicular path to the direction of regular time, up and down. And this is the matter of the lifter. And I found in the old tail additions, that it is hardest to move in time, because it is a very narrow bridge, and therefore free will is difficult in time, and easy in space. And we want the opposite, that it should be easy to move in time, and difficult in space. And this is the intention of the guards: against space - and for time.

And the angel closes the screen and explains in the darkness oral Torah: Know, little baby, that all the war of the Jews is to add time at the expense of space. And eternity will be the victory, a decision in the ancient struggle - time against space. Because once there was no time at all, only space, and if we succeed in adding now another dimension of time at the expense of a dimension of space, both will be two-dimensional screens, or better time in three dimensions, and space in one dimension, and in redemption time will be in four dimensions and there will be no space at all - and this is eternity. The redemption will not be from exile in space but from exile in time, from the period of exile. Therefore redemption is not spatial redemption, of the Land of Israel - but temporal redemption, of the festivals of Israel. The holidays are the first structures in time, an opening for continuation. Therefore the end of the world will not be in time, namely the end of time, but in space - the end of space. The Messiah is outside of history, in two-dimensional time, and in this direction of time will never arrive, only after death, outside of this time. And the resurrection of the dead will be when time is a round ball. But when time is in all four corners, then there will be a fourth period of redemption. Higher than the resurrection of the dead, from the world of resurrection - will be the world of the Holocaust. And the Jews will be points, embryonic ideas, like all dimensions that are in the aspect of gestation. And the Holy One, Blessed be He, will no longer be called The Place, but The Appointed Time, and all bodies will be in time, Passover will be a person, and it will be possible to talk to him, all the holidays will be alive, and in circumcision they will cut part of time, German precision will be like a knife, and Amalek will return from the past, through the lower track of time's hell, despite the erasure of memory in linear time, like a bad dream. And women will be exempt from commandments, because there will be no commandments that time did not cause. And the three pilgrimage festivals will be the fathers, and the four fasts the mothers, and a people of holidays will be born, and they will be the people of the Name, and they will celebrate the Jews, they will celebrate Moses, for example, and it will be understood why there is no early and late in the Torah.

And the embryo expounds: Afterwards, from the gestation in Rosh Hashanah all the holidays develop. The sukkah is the pregnancy, and therefore we sleep in the sukkah. Hanukkah is the birth, with eight days for circumcision. And Purim is childhood. And Passover is the age of education, and you shall tell your son. And Shavuot is the age of entering into commandments, and going out to Torah. Because the Jews - they are the ones who spread the black book. Therefore it is forbidden to go with an uncovered head, and we protect it with a kippah and even a hat. But only a shtreimel gives hermetic protection, with a layer of tails repelling heads, and thus we must also protect Rosh Hashanah - with the shtreimel of the year, made of time's tails. And the rolled embryo raises its head for the first time with a pleading look, and the guardian angel says: I'm sorry, but it seems you won't finish the pregnancy. According to the ideas you said, you've probably already been infected. And from the embryo comes out an achoo - and it is reabsorbed back into the black womb.

The Reversal

I dreamed that my wife wakes me up for the Shabbat Teshuvah [Sabbath of Repentance] sermon of the new Rebbe, who planted agents in the Garden of Eden, and is planning a theological coup. And everyone is hurrying. And he is very tall and opposite him is the women's section, and he looks at it, speaks to it, above the head of all the holy congregation: I am against Hasidism! And everyone falls silent. And he thunders: We need a movement of judgment. No more man of light - Admor [acronym for "Our Master, Teacher and Rabbi"]. But master of darkness - Ba'alta [acronym for "Master of Darkness"]. I'm sick of prayer! And everyone looks at each other. And he raises his hands - to the heavens: The entire Torah is to turn prayer and blessing into prophecy and commandment: to ascend from below to above - to from above to below. From mercy to judgment. From problem to algorithm. And just as Torah without innovation is forbidden, prayer without innovation is forbidden. Not to thank that I'm breathing, unless it's something new. And he looks at the congregation that's not breathing, and says: If the world ends tomorrow morning in a second Holocaust, if God kills you right now for no reason, then yalla it's not part of your relationship, not interesting. Oh, and this too - we need continuation from Islam! That God should be more Allah and less God, to join the Arabs against the West west evening mixed multitude b. Against popular culture, subculture - that's the meaning of hell. To burn the trash books that women read. Only high culture, that's the meaning of paradise, dreams are not subconscious, but superconscious, a new way to talk about God, new work in the upper worlds. And prayer - only if you have something new to say. They corrupted speech, and still wonder why He doesn't answer. Just be careful not to be a nudnik [pest]. God hates nudniks. Better to study during prayer time, if you must show your face. Because in the synagogue, the house of the congregation of Israel - there is your second married life. Quiet from your small wife, and quiet from the internet - your big wife. Ours! And everyone looks into the women's section. And he sweetens a secret: For technological redemption we need technological exile, and then we will stand before the heavens, behind us will be the gentiles, and we will have the parting of the heavens. And then there will really be the question of who is the Nachshon who will jump first - to the heavens. And we will pass through the heavens as on dry land, we will walk all night until we reach the other side, and the heavens will return to themselves, and the camp of gentiles that marched after us will crash to the ground. And then, then we will also walk seven weeks until we reach God's mountain - paradise today is a desert - and we will receive you know what. And he mumbles: For what is Torah study? Not to study the Torah, but to study within the Torah. The commandments are not tools, but materials. Therefore it's better to fall asleep in prayer, and more than that - to dream in prayer. Because when the sleeper sleeps the world disappears from him, but not sleep, it doesn't disappear, it is his world. But when the sleeper doesn't know he's sleeping - when even sleep has disappeared - then he dreams. Then he passes to another world. The Zohar understood only the lower level of night, and therefore wanted us to wake up at night for the midnight rectification. But we want higher than that - to dream at night. And I see the multitude of eyes in the darkness, they sparkle like stars. The Rebbe.

And the new Rebbe shlita [may he live long and good days] twirls the shtreimel [fur hat] on his pinky finger like other Rebbes twirl God, and shoots into the holy congregation: I am against work. Slave! To sell yourself is forbidden, Jews make money from investment, it's forbidden to work. From today every smallest child must invest in the biggest stock market in the world, and let them work all day - mental illness - and we will dream all night - mental health. You don't need to be rich, that's a mistake, investment is what defines wealth, not the other way around, there are rich people who work like donkeys. It's your decision if you're above or below, if you're pure capital or material for sale, on the side of the Messiah or on the side of the donkey. And why is investment so high in spirit? Because it's a dream. It's THE dreaming. Gematria within gematria: stock market! Because fulfilling commandments is consumption, while Torah is investment. And consumption is the animal soul, that's why the commandments are in the body. While money is concentrated spirituality, just as matter is concentrated energy. And to embody spirit in matter - that's idolatry. Therefore luxuries are forbidden, and even charity needs to be an investment. Charity is God's justice, and His justice is very different from the justice we imagine. It's the justice that needs to be. Not our justice, of mercy, after the fact. Charity is not the lights and sparks in money, but the vessels - the technology. Justice is structure, not content. A Torah scholar needs a pill with all the daily food, and no more than that. And thus we will merit God's justice, without mercy. Judgment Day.

And the Rebbe shlita bites his own beard, and like a snake that ate its tail spits out venomously: They slander me, that I'm a politician. Why do I even deal with and hate the state may its name be erased, so why do I mention its name? And I ask, didn't the prophets fight with the Baals? Once there was masculine idolatry, and today there is feminine idolatry. Once there was idolatry of God, and today there is idolatry of the Shechina [Divine Presence]. The foreign kingdom is idolatry, and the pure kingdom in this world is THE network, the last letters - and the end of rectification. The war with the state? It has begun. The state is the organization of the day, the great enemy of the organization of the night. You think we can dream at home, and it won't enter our dream? This monster has taken over Jews' consciousness, with the help of the impure democracy from the wicked kingdom of Greece, when the state should concern a Jew like the sewage infrastructure, while dreaming is the infrastructure of the soul. That's how it washed our brains with sewage water - the government of the day. While the Holy One Blessed be He promised our father at the dream event that his seed would be like the stars. The government of the night.

And the Rebbe shlita continues: For every Torah - there needs to be a drawing down to kingship, meaning a connection to the network, an elevation to the virtual world, to build vessels in the world, to wrap in films and pages. Not naked Torahs, but clothed, so that there will be desire for Torah - like you have desire for a woman, precisely because she's clothed - and then there will be creativity. And in that creative Torah you will understand the secret of infinity: not that the limit is included in the limitless, but that the limitless is included in the limit. The future - in darkness. The Messiah - at night. God - in a dream. The Book of Darkness - the spiritual answer to the Book of Zohar.

And the Rebbe approaches the climactic moment and cries: We must replace the hollow and everyday secular literature with dream literature. What is hidden in Hebrew even in the most impure secular text, no matter what they try to write? The Name. The three most common letters in Hebrew yud-heh-vav the name of Havaya according to the order of descent, in the next level the six most common letters in Hebrew alef-lamed-heh-yud-mem, in the next level ten letters complete to the letters of Bereshit, etc. for those who know. Because just as man received the Book of Formation, the serpent received the Book of Desire, and it is written there: In the beginning God created the heavens - and desire, and God said let there be skin. Because in the future, we will turn from flesh to virtual, and from reality to imaginary, and from body to imagination, and from matter to dream, and from man made of earth to man made of fire, and the serpent will shed its light. Then, when skin turns to light, incest will turn to lion revelation - and we will use a lion revealer to reveal the next Ari [Rabbi Isaac Luria], even within a pig if necessary, because there is a world where the pig is king of beasts and the lion eats garbage. Because just as the people of Israel return in repentance - the Torah needs to be returned in repentance. The fall of the serpent that seduced Eve was much greater than the fall of Adam, because he was supposed to seduce the Torah - and not the woman - and she would have already fed God. Therefore when man dreams, a woman is created from him, but when God dreams, Torah is created from Him. Therefore to rectify now we need to reverse: leave the woman to God, and fall into such a slumber that Torah will come out of us. Because God stopped sleeping - and all the righteous don't succeed in putting Him to sleep, but we - will put man to sleep. Jewish time begins from the night, the day begins from the night. If the dream is really a dream, it remains a dream even in daylight. If the secret is really a secret - it remains a secret even if it's revealed. We will take the dream out of exile - from darkness to light. Because after the return to the land, the time has come to return to heaven. And just as there was, only after they arrived in the land, the period of the prophets, the time has come for the period of the dreamers - because precisely because a dream is lower than prophecy, its root is higher in the Torah. The root of prophecy is in Shemot [Exodus] - and the root of the dream is in Bereshit [Genesis]. And the Rebbe bursts into hysterical crying: The new black heavens, higher than the old heavens, are waiting for us - the darkness. We need to unite the Torah with the bed. If day has become death - the time has come for night to be life. And he puts on the shtreimel, and calls out: Who volunteers to go out with me into the night? And he descends stumbling from the stage, and the lifter and roller stand to his right and left, and the crowd roars, and the walls recoil, and the study hall grows. And I look at the Rebbe's student crying in the dark. The old Rebbe is dead. Long live the new Rebbe.

The Leap of Faith

I dreamed that at night, on Saturday night, the first note already comes out from the new Rebbe, and he demands: A Jew must be able to jump to the heavens. Hear O Israel, when you lie down and when you rise - cover your eyes and jump. And l  o    v    e. You think you're skipping over the night, falling asleep and waking up in a second? The day is just an abyss, and the righteous one jumps from night to night, from horizon to horizon, skipping over the days, leaping over the nights. A Jew needs to write dreams.

Exercise

I dreamed that

At the Head of Sleep They Shall Be Inscribed

I dreamed that they tell me: Write your dreams. And thus you can be two people. Because the networks, the houses, the roads, the books, are becoming more and more crowded. And the solution to crowding is for the world to be black and white. White cars will drive only during the day, and black cars only at night. Instead of adding hours to the day - half the people will live during the day and half at night. And you sleep during the day, and your wife tells you at night: We don't know who the people are who live at our place during the day. You can be one woman during the day and another at night. Not to mention a man. Or a black cat. But now that half the world lives in nights and dreams, instead of days, even the paths of dreams in the heavens are starting to become more and more crowded. And there are traffic jams, honking in dreams, accidents, dangerous overtaking, startled awakenings, and just a step away from a black police, dream police. And I meet someone familiar to me, I have no privacy even in a dream you're following me. Can't I be free? And you: The Rebbe demanded - dawn of a new night. The wild east is over.

The End of the Student

I dreamed that in the future it's even possible to record dreams, with a special shtreimel, and after the privacy of thought is lost the last freedom is lost - the freedom of dreaming. And there is absolute panic in the last refuge of the secret doctrine, the secret that you don't remember even in yourself, soon the light will come, and illuminate into the head. And the angels burn all the pages. And the memory center flashes: They're coming, they're coming. - Who? - Your wife and children. And the student says: Don't you dare dream about me. The new Rebbe doesn't sleep at night, he doesn't really study all night. - Does he read minds? - He reads dreams! And that's what the old Rebbe called idolatry. After all, what is the foundation of religion? To oppose all human spiritual authority - physical doesn't matter. That's why the old Rebbe commanded a spiritual underground, in order to come out of the last hiding place left, of dreams, because they already control all thoughts, and from there to conquer anew thinking and Torah, because there's no place left in them for secret. No, you'll just dream that you're dreaming about me. And the student knows that he lost, and he nods in despair: After all, among the gentiles women were always the most effective tool for social supervision and murder of creativity, and that was the Jewish uniqueness - women who have pleasure from creativity, but now they have pleasure only from social order, like shiksas [non-Jewish women], they've become screen guards. And therefore only the father today can raise a genius. Like the group of genius children, that the old Rebbe taught himself, and they all disappeared. May God have mercy. And therefore the Rebbe spoke about black terror - he meant spiritual terror. He wanted his book to be a car bomb. He wanted his son to be a nuclear weapon. He wanted to make a revolution in paradise, not in this world. And he had a fondness for secret projects that only three people worked on. Teams of Adam, Eve and the serpent. And the new one, the awake Rebbe, doesn't understand what he's talking about. And the student hugs me inside the hideout, so I don't escape from him, and he says quickly: The purpose of the Torah is to raise the next generation, that's the meaning of the God of the fathers. The purpose of God Himself is to be a father. Our purpose is for Him to be a grandfather, meaning that from Him will be born the next image. And therefore we need to raise people who will be innovations, to teach them the entire Torah at a young age, each year corresponding to a day in creation, so they'll be old at age seven, and then the tree of knowledge will kill them at puberty, and then in their maturity they will eat from the tree of life - and rise. Because after all it is the tree of resurrection of the dead, which is: reverse Holocaust. There will be gas chambers that will put smoke into them and people will come out the other side, naked, who will get dressed, and take trains to the whole world. And Jewish culture will return to rule the world - but only in secret. And it will be forbidden to reveal. Whoever needs to know - knows. Because it is actually correct, they are actually right, and from here their power, but they don't understand how right they are, and precisely from here their disaster: A secret in itself, even if everyone knows, precisely if everyone knows, will still remain a secret. Its essence is its secrecy. It is a secret on purpose. But what even makes it a secret? That the covering itself is revealed, not that it doesn't exist. That they don't cover that they're covering. Precisely the externalization of the covering - is the internalization of the secret. Therefore in the resurrection of the dead the coupling will be through the clothes themselves, and not through the internality, without revealing nakedness, only covering nakedness. And the baby will be born into the mother, not outwards. And the student grabs my coat, he begs: There are many things. After all, the crown is a brain-world interface not through the body, it's a bypass route - the root of kingship in the crown, control of the computer from the brain, writing from thought, and then in dreaming... Do you understand? And he holds me tight: There are so many things. To grow on the tree of knowledge a parrot, that knows the entire Torah - that's the sin of knowledge. Therefore you need to raise a son. Not a parrot. To grow fruit, and that will be the tree of life, whose fruit is a baby. Don't leave me here alone. And I say: I'm sorry.

It is a Tree of Life for Those Who Hold Fast to It

I dreamed that they're upgrading the system, above the tree of knowledge the tree of life, and holy birds above holy beasts, and a higher layer above the angels, coal seraphim, clouds of glory, wheels of the throne, because they say God is trampling us, there is judgment even for angels. And angels do kapparot [atonement ritual] with me, circling above the head, because from their perspective a man is a rooster, and we are animals. All the heavens rise up a layer, and where will there be room for God, He must move to time... And the new Rebbe's reorganization begins. The trees in the Garden of Eden hang upside down, gravity upwards, righteous ones hold onto the tree so as not to rise. And the branches approach, and the trees begin to connect. Replacing the tree-like and hierarchical structure, with a network structure. And all the righteous in the Garden of Eden stand like idiots holding ropes and cables and branches and wings that are supposed to connect them to each other and no one knows what to do with it, the main thing is not to fly. Where are the days when we hunted birds, and each layer would do kapparot within the one above it with the one below it. And man would do kapparot in the upper world with animals in the lower world. Now the trees do kapparot with the righteous. And the tree of knowledge, the previous Rebbe climbed up and hides on the branches, and the tree says: This is my replacement, this is my exchange, this is my atonement. This righteous one will go to death, and I to good and long life. Goodbye.

We Lost

I dreamed that in the Neilah prayer, when everyone is tired and weary and God-fearing, the new Rebbe carries out what even they didn't dare. And they send out a team of password crackers, break through the gate and enter the underground storerooms. And there's a drawer there in the darkness. And they steal all the writings, quickly quickly and escape, everything he wrote for the drawer. And the door locks. They forgot me inside. And I see there in the drawer a fig leaf - and written on it Adam's leaf, and underneath it a larger leaf - Eve's, and underneath it skin, I touch and recoil - it's warm, it's alive, it's scales, and the serpent says: I've been waiting for you.

And I grab one of the pages, whatever my hand grabs, and escape, leave the team, no one needs me, and run to hide in the bathroom, because at this stage of the fast there's no one in the bathroom. And it's written in the handwriting of the meshugene [crazy] Rebbe:

Not for reading. Only for writing.

Rectification of ASN [World-Year-Soul]: The Ascent from World-Year-Soul to World-Sleep-Soul

World
I dreamed that in the order of ascent of worlds to the highest classification, first of all you need to sleep. Because don't make high from action, and the original sin is exiting outside the system. Don't murder outside the system of life. The sin of Cain. Don't commit adultery outside the system of family. The sin of the Nephilim sons of God with the daughters of man. Don't steal outside the economic system. The sin of the generation of the flood. Don't bear false witness against your neighbor outside the system of language. The sin of Babel. Don't covet outside the system of perception. This is the sin of Sodom. "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them". This is the sin in a dream. Instead of people dreaming dreams, they realize dreams. Instead of producing higher dreams - desire for base dreams. And when the sin is lower - it damages a higher place. Therefore the sin that is in time, which is beneath everything, damages the highest place. When year is from the word to repeat and recite and not from the word to change, then you can be the greatest of the previous generation - in your generation. But worst of all when sleep is like that. Because then you can be the smallest of your generation - in the previous generation.
Year
I dreamed that the Rebbe greatest of the generation who passed away is already dead but they didn't tell him so as not to upset him. Therefore he thinks he's still alive. And therefore he's the greatest of the generation - because his generation is already dead.
Soul

And the smoke rises, and the wind extinguishes the soul candles, and above this there is darkness. Because the problem is there are no secrets, and therefore it's not intriguing. And you need to show that there are secrets, but that way you'll kill the secrets. And she takes off clothing for the highest classification. And underneath - censored, not modest, breached. So she takes off the skin for the highest classification. And the soul burns. And the smoke rises.

Eye
I dreamed that my eye falls out and rolls under the car and I can't find it. And I go home with half a black world, and think oh what a disaster, oy vey bad luck, evil eye. And then suddenly I realize that people don't notice half their world, half their lives and half their day, and half the globe and half their brain, but really really, always - half a world is black.
Shin
I dreamed that just as there are righteous who die the death of a kiss, there are those who die the death of a bite, death from the side of the serpent's tooth: repetition. While when the Holy One Blessed be He "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth" - these are the flavors of Torah, rectification of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Because the serpent is a small male organ: memory. And what a righteous person needs is not memory - but a dream.
Nun

And all that remains, that rises up - only smoke thin thin as smoke. The chimney of the eye - the Holocaust of the dream.

Ayin
A dream goes out by tooth and eye
Shin
Tooth dream and mighty eye
Nun

And my hand trembles, what's left to descend? I suddenly realize that soul [nefesh] reversed is rabbit [shafan] - and peek out of the bathroom. And it turns out everyone rushed home quickly at the end of the fast, and locked me in the synagogue. They forgot me inside Yom Kippur. Because as long as I'm here, and I don't have a Havdalah candle, and I didn't do Havdalah - my Yom Kippur fast hasn't ended. And the holy day can continue all night.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Lost Hell

The computer would look back at them, because now the screen appeared like a large, square, and frightening eye, opaque without a pupil inside, looking from another world, like the eye of a giant fish that had risen from the abyss to land - and died. And the shape of the letters on the keyboard, which they would guess at, the mystery of their arrangement, always in the same order that doesn't form any word, although there were those who found words there, or hints from an ancient secret language. But the wise always warned people not to pity the computer

By: The Lost Snake

Dark Computer - Paradise Lost (Source)

God commanded man not to further develop the computer, and not to open it. And man obeyed the word of God. Computers stood dusty, like a stone that has no one to turn it over in every house, and were inherited from father to son. With natural destruction, their number gradually decreased, until it became rare to find a computer. Every time the villagers looked at a computer, they were filled with a sadness that evoked pity for it. Like a child who died and never grew up. The face of the future of man that never materialized. A promise that failed, which was perhaps buried within them more than in the strange object before them, whose purpose was no longer known. And the computer would look back at them, because now the screen appeared like a large, square, and frightening eye, opaque without a pupil inside, looking from another world, like the eye of a giant fish that had risen from the abyss to land - and died.

And the shape of the letters on the keyboard, which they would guess at, the mystery of their arrangement, always in the same order that doesn't form any word, although there were those who found words there, or hints from an ancient secret language. But the wise always warned people not to pity the computer, because on the day the computer would be opened, it would lead to the loss of mankind. While the heretical prophets, the village fools, carried in the squares opposite and unfounded claims, that it was not really possible to stop the computer, and the moment man did not move forward, he did not stop in place, but went backward. And his fate was sealed in the opposite direction. But they would chase them away with sticks.

For many among them were the lepers, and many of the lepers were from them, because leprosy had also returned. Computers were now considered tombstones, and every family buried its dead in a cave behind their computer, or tribe, because few were the ancient noble families, the distinguished ones, who still inherited a computer. And from these caves of the dead came cold spirits of the underworld, and few dared to approach a computer now. The mere mention of it would cause a shudder.

An era of diseases and plagues thinned the population, and the few and rare computers that were preserved became centers of temples, guarded by priests, inspiring awe, and therefore covered from the eye of the common man, and pilgrims would offer sacrifices to them. Finally, after an era of tribal wars and nomad invasions and the burning of settlements, one last computer remained, in the most important temple in the world. A computer from which it might be possible to reconstruct the golden age, and extract from it the ancient technological knowledge of the sages of old. But the savage tribes would offer human sacrifices to it.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

Enough with the Sourpusses

Does culture serve the wealthy person, or perhaps is he - trapped within the ethos of capitalist wealth and therefore creating economic activity like a donkey and financing society - the one being exploited? As part of the exhaustion and turning point of philosophy against individualism, a concept will arise that will replace the individual in terms of value and focus of interest. The day is near when the value of the individual will be understood solely as serving culture, and therefore death will no longer be perceived as a problem, but only creative barrenness and cultural damage. The Holocaust will no longer be perceived as a holocaust of individuals, and the cultural holocaust will be seen as the center of the crime

By: On the Contrary and On the Contrary

The conceptual reversal of coming to terms with a philosophical problem and turning it into a fundamental assumption for the next theory (Source)

The main weapon in philosophy, which wins wars, is let's celebrate the problem, the problem is the solution and it's good that it's so. Like Kant versus Hume, or the later Wittgenstein versus the early one and linguistic positivism, like Aristotle versus Plato, like Descartes against skepticism (I doubt therefore I am). And like postmodernism in its optimistic version, the celebration of there is no truth, as in the merry 90s, with Gurevitch and Keret and Derrida.

Afterwards, a critical and negative tone took over - Foucault for example, and political correctness - which says that everything is constructs and politics, which is a skeptical and negating approach. And then one can say against it, using the main weapon: it's wonderful that everything is constructs, and everything is control of discourse, this is culture, let's celebrate it, let's understand that everything is a product of culture and it's not a problem that it's so but that it's good that it's so. That is, we'll replace politics and economics as producers of discourse, meaning as negative, forceful, bad forces, against the individual, with culture, which is also against the individual, but good.

That is - to go against Marx, against leftism. To change branding from negative to positive for a phenomenon. To replace the bad with the good, like in "the evil inclination is very good". And to understand that this is how culture works, through constructs, and it's good that we don't have authenticity of the individual, because it's a messed up, kitsch, unimportant thing, and the individual is bad. And culture is good. That is, culture is the source of constructs, not power. Power is under the control of culture, its product, its way of thinking, and there are non-forceful cultures. That is - not the will to power and not forceful power, but at most cultural, spiritual power. Culture is the source of power and not the opposite.

All politics, economics, even technology, are servants of culture without being aware of it. There we can expose the false consciousness: the rich person who thinks he's strong, but is actually rooted in perceptions that stem from literature. The politician who actually serves a philosophy written by someone smarter than him whom he didn't know, but the ideas had power. The power that is actually controlled by art. Pornography and Hollywood that are actually controlled by painters' images, and try to imitate them to gain cultural legitimacy, because that's what they are, imitators. Literature is the strongest power in the world. That's where they determine the ways power will flow in the future. Because whatever power won't do - literature will be above it. Which is actually the definition of the Jewish idea. From the Bible to the Holocaust.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

The Snake's Election Speech

Once again, elections are taking place in the Garden of Eden on Earth. Try an interesting exercise: go through the entire political spectrum and try to identify wholeheartedly with each and every party - from the extreme right to the extreme left, from the ultra-Orthodox to the Arabs. The more you are able to want to vote for a wider range, with sharper contradictions - the more your mind will open to a new and exciting conceptual world

By: The First Snake

Snake for Government Tail-ism  (Source)

I whisper to my leftist friend: People won't vote according to the material things that seem important to you. Why? Because we live in a utopian era, where there are no existential concerns, and therefore the elections are a matter of personal expression, like artistic, and they have a significant aesthetic dimension - in the modernist sense. That is, ugliness can be aesthetic, and there are countless creative tastes to choose between yes and no, meaning people will find a whole range of ideological and cultural expression even just in choosing between yes and no. The competition is over the reasoning, not the choice, because everyone wants to be original in the same choice itself. Individualism is more important than the result. What a wonderful time to live in! Bread is so cheap, personal security is at 99.99% - you're not worried about walking on the street, you can sleep with whoever you want and as much as you want without worrying about children or punishments, read whatever you want in the library, water is clean and available for free, in short, a completely utopian period, in terms of any society that existed in the past (and certainly in relation to grandma in the Holocaust, which is perhaps the paradigm of an anti-utopian period, just to calibrate the threshold).

Perhaps only work is the last sacrifice of personal freedom, but no one forces you to work. There are allowances, savings, look at me! The choice is between luxuries. And therefore it becomes not material - but conceptual. The militant competition is actually a national sport, which has a bit of danger like any sport, but in principle the question is how much-how much, how much we scored against the Arabs versus how much we lost. It's not a personal threat on a daily existential level. So it's just another type of luxury. In the end, we vote against the Nazis. And the whole question is which choice is more against Nazis, and here there can already be different interpretations. Is the Jewish right further from Nazis than the Jewish left? It's a question of content versus form. Each of them is closer to the Nazis in a different way, but the truth is that both are so far that it's hard to decide, and that's because we live in a utopian period opposite to the Holocaust, meaning the opposite utopia to Hitler's has been realized.

The choice is between good and good and it's hard to decide. All parties are good, each in its own way. They are all right in different ways. Each of them has its aesthetics, with each one I can identify. I wish we could vote for all of them. Actually, we can. Those who don't vote are essentially giving their vote to all parties. Both the right and the left and the center and the religious and the Russians and the ultra-Orthodox and the Arabs - they're all wonderful. And that's precisely the most unique choice. How many people in the country can really feel this way? Think this way? How many people living in utopia can know that they're living in utopia?

It's clear that people living in utopia can't be aware of it. That's the first lesson from the Garden of Eden. It requires lack of knowledge. We're living in the wildest sexual celebration that has ever been in human history, in the most Ahasuerus-like feast of food and abundance, even Pharaoh couldn't have imagined a supermarket. Look how excited they were about dates. Dates! That was the chocolate of the ancient world, this foya [Translator's note: possibly a misspelling of "poya", a type of date]. Do you understand the gap? And we're also walking in the freest and most abundant literary and intellectual carnival that has ever taken place. You can read everything at the click of a keyboard. Isn't the internet a utopia? Isn't Facebook a utopia? Even the utopia of the Enlightenment has been realized. What else do you want. What else is missing for you in this world.

Democracy is a show, entertainment. Because there is bread. And what are games for? Entertainment for the spoiled, satiated, educated, sophisticated, decadent masses, the audience of the art world, or the fans of this or that team. That's why there's no violence. Because it's a democratic game. Sport. At most, the fans cry or are in ecstasy. But is it important for the masses to know this? No, on the contrary, it's important that they don't know it. That they're not aware of their objectively wonderful state, and continue to play, continue to try and work and consume and fear and enlist and strive, continue to move away from the Nazis more and more. In this Garden of Eden, I'm not allowed to be the snake. Let the masses continue to play naked, and let the snake writhe alone on the tree of knowledge. Therefore, woman, do not eat. It's not tasty. Go back to Adam and have sex. God loves you stupid.

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The Degeneration of the Nation

Ideology in Crisis: On the Innovative Ideology - as a Substitute for Conservative Ideology (Part 2)

Innovation is similar to conservatism in that it prefers replacing ideology with methodology, but it simply chooses a more established methodology than the conservative one - and especially a faster and more flexible one. Political science is called upon today to broaden its horizons and apply lessons and learning methodologies learned in organizational theory and the world of algorithms. It will then discover that new horizons of enormous organizational methodological experimentation are opening up before it, based on billions of years of evolution (evolutionary algorithms and those inspired by neuroscience), on new mathematical and physical ideas (God forbid), on the scientific method itself - and also on lessons from the world of startups operating under extreme environmental constraints

By: Yesterday's News

Maximum Acceleration: The Organizational Antithesis to Conservatism, Enabling for the First Time the Vision of the Empirical State, Thanks to Information Technology (Source)

On the State as an Organization and the Organization as a State

In our time, the central importance of the historical philosophical engagement with state theory does not relate to the state itself - but to the organization. Today, organizational philosophy contains the philosophy of the state as a particular (and important) case, but its scope extends far beyond the state, which is a problematic organization in decline, towards the center of our economic and technological lives - built as countless organizations. Plato did not know limited liability companies, or a stock market, or a modern army, or an academic department, or internet corporations, or the rest of the enormous organizational world that surrounds us today and largely determines our fate and consciousness, but his ideas about the ideal state can be translated into the ideal organization - and organizational theory - as can every classical thinker in the history of political science. Thus we can also project onto organizational theory the division between right and left, or the dispute between conservatives and revolutionaries. And it works the other way around: we can project ideas from the organizational world onto the state world.

As Plato writes in "The Republic" - the large letters of the state allow us to read the ethical map more easily than the smaller letters of the individual, or perhaps of the organization. But perhaps the opposite is also true, and it is precisely the small letters of the organization - that allow us to anticipate writing that has not yet reached the state stage. And since small organizations (for example startups) are today under much more severe constraint systems than the state, and also more than larger organizations like corporations, their evolution is much faster, and they have been forced to adapt in a way that the state has not yet adapted to - and there we will often find the last word in terms of organizational adaptation. But are these conservative organizations? Come on, really. On the other hand, they are certainly not chaotic organizations either. Or organizations where there is freedom. Or equality. Or fraternity. These organizations have found a methodology that maximizes only one value: innovation. And so also at the state level - in the face of rising right-wing conservatism in our day, with growing fears of the future, and threatening to slow down and hinder the development of civilization at a critical stage, we must position not the helpless and irrelevant left, but the method of innovation.

Can we imagine a commercial corporation adopting conservatism as a method? How long would it take for such a corporation to go bankrupt in today's business environment? So why would we recommend to the state what we would never recommend to an organization in which our money was invested (even conservatives' money)? And in the current situation, where the state is increasingly taking on characteristics of a commercial, competitive corporation in the global market, why not believe that the time for state conservatism has also passed? Reading the fine print of the startup, or the person required for constant change, teaches us about the medium letters of the corporation, which teaches us about the large letters of the state. Conservatism seems to be an approach in trouble, just as a corporation that would be controlled today by ideology - is also in trouble. Conservatism is fighting the battles of the past against the great ideologies and their revolutions, but the war of the future is precisely rapid, frequent, adaptive, creative changes - and not ideological ones. When the environment changes rapidly, it is folly to maintain a constant or low mutation rate, evolutionarily speaking, and not to increase experimentation rapidly. This is a recipe for the extinction of the species, just as it is a recipe for the extinction of the state (a reasonable possibility in the next century! And precisely because of its inherent conservatism). If so, what is the source of the attraction of conservatism in a period of unprecedented innovation?

Conservative Innovation and Innovative Conservatism

After about a hundred years of modernism of destroying the past and empty innovation for the sake of innovation, in quite a few cultural and academic fields, which was accompanied by comprehensive mental brainwashing, conservatism and traditional (and sometimes religious) perceptions often shine in a subversive precious light, surrounded by an underdog halo, breaking conventions and paradigms, iconoclastic and nonconformist, which attracts many - because of the innovation in them (the irony!). But the correction needed by modernist innovation is not reactionary, or through a conservative antithesis (whose honor is in its place, as a balance to modernity), but through a synthesis between conservatism for the sake of conservatism and innovation for the sake of innovation. The most efficient and innovative innovation method known to us - is the scientific method - and it maintains an impressive conservative continuity of knowledge. This method uses experiments and randomness and statistical tools to draw conclusions in complex and chaotic environments. This method is also the inspiration for the idea of the "lean startup", which is the fundamental organizational idea of the startup world today, as formulated by Eric Ries, and spread as a field like wildfire (rapid adaptation, we said?). This refers to a startup that conducts scientific experiments (random and controlled) on its chaotic business environment, and changes rapidly according to the results of the experiment. In addition, like a scientific researcher, it quickly starts with simple hypotheses and progresses to complexity, through the idea of MVP - Minimum Viable Product, which translated into the large letters of the state is Minimum Viable Policy. It means to quickly release to the chaotic external environment the simplest minimal policy - to test it and improve it in short cycles. How different is this idea from the sick evil of early and failed optimization of policies and laws by "smart" legislators without actual experimentation? And how much faster and more efficient than conservative policy-making processes with endless balances and discussions.

This startup method at the state level would look something like this: initiating countless controlled experiments (including the use of randomness), on a small or large scale, of policy changes, and gradually including the successful and established ones on the entire state as an expanding experiment, while striving for rapid efficiency and optimization. All this while being open to checking wild hypotheses and sometimes also mutations of random policy. Introducing randomness in relation to the population is certainly not ideologically justified (why, for example, should the rate of allowance vary randomly between individuals from the experimental group?), but it is methodologically justified. Such a state does not formulate policy, but conducts controlled experiments on its citizens, and perhaps also on its enemies, and acts according to the results. In fact, such a state is a methodology, or a field of research dealing with the citizens of a certain state. What is the voting method that increases the voting rate? Let's do experiments. What is the taxation method that increases the amount of state and individual income? Let's do experiments. What is the policy that causes an Arab village in the territories to produce less violence? Let's do experiments. Traditions and ideologies are not interesting - only the results. The debate can remain on the measured goals, but the way should be left to the experimenters. Policy changes that are not based on empirical experiments - are not legitimate (how different from legislation today!). Therefore, this method is based on experience much more than the conservative method, which tends ultimately to a very conservative, human and limited experience - the experience of the past. This, instead of turning experience into a mechanism that researches the present and accordingly shapes the future - as in the innovative method.

The Future of Political Science

In the end, in light of the frequent changes in the world, there is no one on the left or right who thinks that the state should not change constantly. The central question is what is the correct method for the state. Ideological thought, both on the right and on the left, presents a final goal to which the state should aspire, as a function aspires to an ultimate limit. This is thought that has already "cracked" the correct algorithm, and aspires only to implement and advance it all the time to its goal - learning is towards a fixed direction. Pragmatic-realistic thought presents a greedy algorithm, which tries to optimize in the short term (and populism is a greedy algorithm in relation to internal reality, instead of external). On the other hand, conservative thought emphasizes precisely the need for a continuous and gradual learning algorithm, weighted with the past, which is not sensitive to the noise of the present and to every new data. A conservative algorithm is less vulnerable to unfounded generalizations, and on the other hand much slower - which is not acceptable in an accelerating world, unlike, perhaps, a constant environment. In an accelerating environment there is a need for a much faster algorithm, and on the other hand its foundation must be preserved - and for this purpose one can simply collect much more data, and not only past data, but through active experiments. Fortunately, the scientific method has been working well for about 500 years, and even more fortunately, information technology allows for the first time to implement it at the state level - on citizens, as it allows a startup to implement it at the software level - on users. The result will be one: unprecedented innovation, and unprecedented foundation - thanks to state empiricism. The conservative is similar to a sworn empiricist scientist who ignores the scientific method, relies only on natural and not initiated experiments, and prioritizes a distant (and biased) database over an up-to-date and random database. In this sense he is an armchair scientist (who sharply criticizes the theoretical scientist!) - instead of a laboratory scientist.

When the human world itself is facing a transition to a semi-human society (and not necessarily post-human), conservative awareness of historical human weaknesses is not the right consciousness to deal with the change, because the main threat comes precisely from new human weaknesses (for example, the neurological addiction to push information from screens) and computer weaknesses - and past balances are nullified. Therefore, precisely a method devoid of human sentiments, like the scientific method, is better built to deal with the complexity of the future than human neurological biases. Conservatism was probably a mediocre and reasonable historical ideal for the human state, but what a pity that today we are already on the threshold of the algorithmic state, which allows organization in a completely different way, and new forms of leftist regime (for example, algorithmic communism, in which the economy is planned by a central algorithm more efficient than the capitalist one). Against planning in a top-down direction (which is the true meaning of the left) and formation in a bottom-up direction (the true meaning of the right) - two algorithms with known flaws, dependent on large and slow feedback loops - one must position the short loops of the experimental state. It is possible that conservatism was in the past the best strategy for managing the affairs of the present (optimization according to past experience), but the concern of human society has never been the present - but the future. This is due to the nature of man as a future machine, and hence the revolutionary and innovative nature of human society. Today - the future is more correct than ever, and conservatism less than ever - and this situation will only worsen, as a humanistic reactionary response to the information age and the formation of super-human intelligence, both from the left and from the right. Not human nature, good or bad, is the problem of our lives - but the nature of the computer.

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Is sexuality without sin possible? The #MeToo movement is reconstituting the idea of sin in secularized sexuality

The Middle Ages are returning - and this is a positive development. Secularism has never rid itself of the religious foundation at its core, and the failure to do so in the sexual realm has cost us much unnecessary suffering

By: Catolius the Holy

Adam and Eve - Franz von Stuck (Source)

A well-known claim by religious intellectuals against the secularization movement is that secularization is not "real" but a mask for hidden religious ideas, and therefore the secular mask is necessarily shallow, imitative, and even perverse and ridiculous compared to the original. For example, the idea of the sanctity of art in the West was born from its role in the Christian religion, and when art was detached from its source, it initially maintained its aura of holiness in various worship practices, such as treating the artist himself as a "saint" and in the special temples for this religion - namely museums. The religious-conservative cultural critic would argue that beneath the secular guise, the religious structure was copied, but over time it became an empty and disconnected structure, resulting in inauthentic art, lacking depth and seriousness, and more commercialized than any corrupt religious establishment.

The religious genealogy will often identify psychology as a religious ideology that developed at the base of Western secularism and will see it as a pale substitute for true religion. Freud will be perceived as a modern and charlatan version of Paul or Muhammad - a popularizer of religious concepts originating in his family's Hasidic Judaism, marketing an invented myth to the masses. The tzaddik [righteous man] who assists in the union between God and the Shekhinah [divine presence] is replaced by the infant jealous of daddy's sexuality with mommy, where in the secular version he naturally rebels against the father (who is the source of law). But since it's a perverse and arbitrary myth, it doesn't hold up like the ancient myths. The secular idea of the soul - which quickly degraded to the brain - will appear superficial and unsatisfying compared to the depths that religion touches in its treatment of the soul and spirit. And secular psychological treatment will be criticized as degenerating into childish and victimized narcissism - a poor substitute for confession, standing before God, or turning to sacred texts rich in literary and spiritual qualities.

This religious critique of culture will also see in the most important secular movements of our time, such as the movement to preserve the Earth, a false religious-messianic dimension that responds to the need for apocalypse through transparent religious sublimation. Secularism has replaced the fear of hell with the fear of global warming, and the desire to reach heaven with the green aspiration to maintain environmental quality and ecological balance. In this view, the entire environmental trend in culture is a secularized version of the myth of the lost Garden of Eden, responding to a basic religious infrastructure found within every person - even the most secular.

From this perspective of cultural criticism, #MeToo appears as another movement of the failure of secularization. Perhaps the greatest secular cultural project of the twentieth century, following the sexual revolution, the feminist revolution, and the LGBTQ revolution, was to establish sexuality without a dominant concept of sin. The idea of guilt was denounced as suppressing healthy sexuality and sexual pleasure, sexual morality was perceived as a harmful and primitive idea destined to pass from the world, and even infidelity was no longer seen as a sin. As a result, secularized and liberated sexuality was a central source of attraction for the secular Western world and its propaganda against the religious world and conservative cultures around the globe.

In a world where desire is identical to good, it's difficult for us to grasp the almost self-evident identification in the past of sexuality with the evil inclination. What kind of split self-perception was created when sex was a demonic temptation on one hand, and desirable on the other? Perhaps this is the source of the split between body and soul that characterized the medieval perception. Do we still feel ourselves today as composed of two separate entities - soul and body? If the answer is negative, it's possible that following the liberation from guilt over bodily pleasure, our self-perception has changed so much that philosophical problems considered eternal, such as the psychophysical problem, have lost their sting.

The #MeToo movement teaches us that the split between sexual evil and sexual good apparently stands at the foundation of the human psyche, not just in extreme perverse and violent cases or in backward cultures, but also in the regular and normative sexuality experienced by people in the secularized Western world, and in the most everyday relationships between the sexes in our society. It establishes a new and dominant concept of sexual sin, which like previous concepts of sexual sin is present throughout sexuality, and entails ritualistic ceremonies of guilt, denunciation, confession, ostracism, desecration, victimhood, purification through speech, the fall of saints and the seduction of innocents, and other religious and even medieval concepts. Does it surprise us that sexual sin is almost as common as sexuality itself? That sexual education includes dealing with desire? That evil is inherent in sexuality no less than good? After all, this was the basic insight and sense of reality of the pre-modern world. And will we learn to imitate from the religious world other practices related to sin - such as atonement and repentance?

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