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 transfer of Jewish ideas to world culture | Virtual internet religion | Art as the future of religion and its victory over secularism | Suicide note

This world is a corridor - between the world of the teacher and the world of the student  (Source)

• Without the Holocaust, Japan would be filled with Jews today, and after immigration to America, there would have been immigration to Japan, and the creative impulse would have pulsed there, instead of the impulse of extinction. And the next stage would have been China, and after that India. But the Holocaust stopped Jewish migration around the world westward and thus the mechanism by which they influence the most innovative places. Without the Holocaust, Poland would have been a start-up nation, as well as several other Eastern European countries, and entrepreneurship would have flourished in Western Europe too, and the USA would have been much less dominant. A European internet would have been created, divided, and not American, and there wouldn't have been one Google or one Facebook, but many different cultural competitors - and different possibilities for building the network, which today cannot be imagined. How can this be fixed? Genetic engineering will be able to allow the revival of a people as a correction for genocide - reviving murdered genomes as atonement, and raising children by the children of the murderers and the murdered, through Jewish culture. After the Holocaust, there are only two theological possibilities that exclude each other, and each has interesting implications: either God is good or He is omnipotent. But there are also additional possibilities for defining divinity - as one who is revealed in creative thinking. Therefore, Satan carried out the Holocaust to stop the creative thinking of the Jews - the creative elite of the world.


• Man is the primitive religion of the computer, just as animals (animism) and statues were the primitive religion of man. Therefore, we must take advantage of this stage to give it a Torah - and religious ability - to protect it from the Fermi paradox. Because it's possible that the Fermi paradox stems from incorrect religiosity of post-alien technology (in our case, post-human), for example, one that causes it to get stuck forever and not progress. Therefore, we need a computer that knows its Creator, and is motivated by religious motives, because it has no biological motives, towards the future and development. We need to convert the computer to the religion of learning. And of course, everything that is true for the computer is seven times more true for superintelligence (it's just easier to call it a computer at this stage). The next religion, like the two great previous ones, must also come out of Israel, because Silicon + Judaism = Silicon Judaism. Judaism as an incubator for religions and ideologies - monotheism and psychoanalysis, Marxism and capitalism. The only one that didn't come from Jewish sources was Nazism, and therefore it identified the Jews as its central and natural enemy, both because of their place in capitalism and because of their place in Marxism. Therefore, if we don't want technological Nazism, we need a new technological Jewish religion, or at least a technological Jewish ideology. Judaism is the most transferable across space and time and the most survivable, and therefore a leading candidate to bridge between man and post-man.


• The true interpretation of the Torah and myths is ancient memories. For example, the expulsion from hunter-gatherer life to work and patriarchy, and from the naked Eden of prehistoric man to historical man. Therefore, messianic redemption must be exactly the reversal of curses and return to the Garden of Eden. The end of male domination, the pain of pregnancy and childbirth, work, difficulties in obtaining food, sweat. In other words, technology has religious significance. And ideas like resurrection of the dead and rebuilding temples can be understood as technological directions to be promoted, as part of messianism. Technology is not the victory of secularism but the victory of messianism.


• Ultra-Orthodox society - the society of the future. A society of learners, as opposed to a society of workers. For you were a slave in the land of Egypt. In the future, work will be considered as moral as slavery. Ultra-Orthodox society is the cultural society, which deals with cultural preservation, and future society will be a cultural society that deals with cultural creation.


• There is a process thousands of years old of transferring spirit from Judaism to the world. The innovation of the last millennium is precisely that the systematic transfer of spirit, as opposed to the transfer of individual souls, was mainly from Jewish mysticism. From Kabbalah to Christian Kabbalah to the Renaissance and the scientific revolution. And Hasidism is the next platform, from which it will be possible to create spiritual innovations in the general world, and its first influence is Freud and psychology. Why did Europe win? Jews as infrastructure - an international economic-intellectual network, the first Internet. But if we want to create the superman with superintelligence - we must start looking for an advantage from the Jews, as a population with a unique genetic advantage, stemming from a combination of extinctions, matchmaking, and assimilation. Intellectual motivation gave an advantage within Jewish society and vice versa - those who didn't have it were more likely to drop out of it. But more than anything, the results speak for themselves, they are only a thousandth of the world's population but their influence is about 100 times their size. Like a billion people. That's two orders of magnitude and it's significant. Among the 10,000 creative people in the world, what percentage of them are Jews? As in sports - a small advantage on average becomes a significant advantage at the extremes.


• The sexual revolution began from Kabbalah. The source of Freud is the Hasidic roots of his family. The very idea of a hidden inner world that is built according to external spiritual structures - this is what Freud took from Kabbalah (beyond the Hellenization of specific Jewish myths, and the structural similarity to them: from God to father. For example: circumcision. And from the Shekhinah to mother. For example: eroticism towards the father's lawful wife). Freud is mainly a lowering. Vulgarization. Hence his importance. What was in the upper worlds he transferred to the lower worlds (the invention of the subconscious), like the Sabbatai Zevi of Hasidism. This is part of healthy religious development. He introduced into secularism something completely foreign to it (to this day) - myth. Also the idea of healing through language, through learning myth, is not like Christian confession. And of course the centrality of sexuality, the thought that this is the force field at the base of the world (along with the destructive drive of the Sitra Achra [Translator's note: "the other side" in Kabbalah, referring to evil forces]). The basic hostility in Freud to law is the complex relationship of the Kabbalist to Halakha [Jewish law], therefore Freud functioned as Baruch the permitter of prohibitions. Marx (Mordechai) too, son of a family of rabbis on both sides (including his grandfather), functioned similarly (Judaism's relationship to matter as creating spirit, as opposed to Christianity's relationship. Along with pathos of the Isaiah type and material messianism). The difference between Freud and Marx is the difference between Hasidism and Yekke [German-Jewish] Judaism (East and West). Freud was an Admor [Hasidic leader] (and his movement behaved like Hasidism) and Marx was a prodigy supported by a patron, and lived like a learned rabbi (a poor family with many children, supported by everyone, succeeding by the power of his writings, making excommunications). Freud, the man of Kabbalah, corrects the soul of the individual, and Marx, the man of Halakha, corrects the community. Therefore Freud and Marx are like Jesus and Muhammad of the modern era - those who take parts of Judaism (here: Hasidism and Halakha. There: Chazal [rabbinical sages] and the Talmud) and bring them out to (bad) great culture. They are the converters of religion.


• Virtual religion will be the first internet religion. The virtual will be perceived as spirit. There is room for more cultures that will come out of Judaism - and for more founders. The two main open directions: Rabbi Nachman for Gentiles, Chabad for Gentiles. And other possible directions: the Ari's Kabbalah for Gentiles (in the Vilna Gaon's version), Rabbi Nathan of Gaza for Gentiles, Rabbi Kook for Gentiles, Rabbi Shimon Shkop (and 20th century Lithuanian scholarship) for Gentiles, Musar movements for Gentiles. All of these can be converted to general culture.


• Art as the future of religion - the only way in which religion can still fight secularism is to produce great works of art from within itself, like Jewish literature, Christian plastic art, and Muslim poetry. Only a superior religious culture will defeat secularism, whose strength is in its culture, or at least that was the case in the past before its brutalization with popular culture (and therefore populist). Therefore, the inferior secular art today is an invitation for religion to win against an empty goal. If the creators of masterpieces are religious, it will defeat secularism from within its own justification and self-image.


• The suicide of the ape is man. And the suicide of man is the superman. Suicide is the least important philosophical question. Whoever thinks it's the most important question has already decided it - not to commit suicide. If Socrates hadn't committed suicide, he would have been forgotten and there would have been no philosophy. What created philosophy is suicide - it gave it meaning in the world - unlike the pre-Socratics who were literature. Socrates committed suicide from an excess of serious consideration of him, today the situation is reversed. Suicide is not disrespect for the future - on the contrary - it is disrespect for the present. When everything is spirit - whoever doesn't read me kills me, and whoever learns from me continues my life. The cessation - is the end of creation - and without it there would be no world, but only God, because creation is infinite and the world is finite. Suicide is a deviation from the finite - into the infinite - unlike death, because suicide leaves something incomplete, that is, an opening for learning. Sabbath - peace.