The Degeneration of the Nation
The righteous is forsaken and his seed begs bread
Something forbidden to say
By: The Detached
Admiration! Jesus became Jesus thanks to the apostles (source)
I have been young, and now am old [Translator's note: A reference to Psalms 37:25]. Interpretation: I was an old youth. The purpose of culture is to raise geniuses, and all the second-best and B-grade don't contribute much. But to raise geniuses, you need a broad layer of second-best, meaning cultured people who admire the geniuses. They are their parents, their wives, their students and children. A genius needs culture around them, and if there's no culture around them, they won't become a genius, which is why there are periods with many geniuses. The problem today: The B-grade have convinced themselves they are geniuses. Even though the gap between a genius and B-grade is about the same as the gap between a human and an animal. And here lies the enormous damage of humanism and enlightenment, and especially democracy - the denial that the masses are animals.

What exposes the herd of animals more than anything is Facebook. Because once, animals didn't speak. The idea that people are on the same level is an idea promoted by the flat network. Therefore, discourse between A-grade and B-grade resembles discourse between a human and an animal - that thinks it's human like them. Like a dog that joined a band, not understanding it's a human family. Only this time it's about a human who joined a pack of dogs.

Because for every human there are a hundred animals, or a thousand animals. This is the statistical meaning of giftedness and genius. Once, only those who were human wrote, so it was easy to read. As the project of eradicating animal illiteracy progressed, of elementary school, it became harder to find a human in the crowd. Because the purpose of school was to teach people to read, but what happened is that people learned to write. And today they write more than they read. So now you can't even read anything from the present. All the filtering mechanisms of culture have been clogged with too much garbage. There's no filter that can withstand such a thing.

Therefore, today the cultural infrastructure around the genius has disappeared. Everyone's a genius. Meaning, everyone's really an animal, because no more geniuses can grow without a substrate and environment and nurturing and worship. And today there's no more worship of humans, because far more dangerous than secularism towards God is secularism towards humans, and today humans have undergone secularization (that's why in Haredi [ultra-Orthodox Jewish] culture the phenomenon of genius still exists). Genius is not an individual phenomenon but a systemic one - because it's an individual phenomenon within a system, not a system of individuals. Genius is in danger of extinction - precisely because of excess popular education. Look, even Hitler was a writer. He wrote a book! Once you had to be Moses to write a book. Imagine if everyone who left Egypt wrote a book about their experience. Would we have a Torah?

The person writing to you on Facebook - will assume you're on the same level. Mistake. A person needs to know how to identify who is smarter than them - and try to learn from them. This is the humility that's missing. That's why geniuses are often more humble than others, and there's no greater social crime than arrogance. The intelligence-correct discourse, according to which everyone debates on the same level and there are no enormous gaps, is more oppressive than politically correct. It's forbidden to tell animals they're animals. Because they're human. That's why there's no more culture. That's why geniuses, who are always oppressed and are told to display humility for the sake of social approval, need to stop with the humility, because genius comes from the word pride [Translator's note: In Hebrew, "genius" (gaon) and "pride" (ga'avah) share the same root]. This is the first step in rehabilitating culture.

Enormous propaganda mechanisms suppress the thought that you're better than others, even when it's true, and the result is that many people think they're better than others even when the thought isn't true. So let's make it clear. You're dumber than me. Statistically, everyone reading this text, although no one will read this text, is dumber than the writer. More ignorant than them. Less creative than them. Even those who are more knowledgeable than them in a certain field - they don't have the breadth of knowledge and skills of the writer. Let's start from there.
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