Judaism VS Postmodern
I’d like to speak this time about contradiction of two cultures: Jewish one and European one. First of all let’s make review - Daniel: Mene, tekel, fares, late Roman empire moral corruption, no borders. This moral relativity characterizes modern European culture also. I’d like to take for example Greek-roman culture in it’s late period, after that to turn to Babylon and Egypt. For my mind this period characterizes by few exact signs:
1. Things, which were recognizable sins, like to live sexual live with your relatives, to betray by your wife, pederasty, mating with animals. You see, friends, that same things happen in the modern Europe.
2. Turning to admiring different primitive societies: Germans, in general, in their tribal variations, but also Eastern primitive societies. Now, my friends, Europeans prefer to admire Asians, poor African tribes and so on.
3. Arts are influenced by “wild” cultures, by same barbarians, in Europe in came from period of modern art of 20 century (influence from Africa and so on).
4. Population is decreasing, the same we see in Europe now.
5. Inner proletarians stop to work and begin to develop different theories to justify it, they want a lot, but regularly this abundance come from exploitation of outer proletarians. And here I don’t come to deny socialistic theories, even opposite, I have certain respect for them, but just now a lot of factories are situated not in Europe, but in Asia, and this profit of inexpensive work power is given also to European work class and in such circumstances to claim continuation of socialistic reforms there in the West means to continue to robe third world.
6. People move from the setting “what I have to do” to “leave me please” and voices to return to harmonic existence in nature and with nature are heart.
In different variations you can find these characteristics in late Babylon, in Hellenistic Egypt etc. real complete analysis of events we’ll not do now, everyone can look in historical books and to see, that such big conqueror like Babylon in it’s late period was characterized by the same things more or less: sins became acts of honor, exotic barbarian tribes became the object of admiring and main power in army.
Elements of this decay are presented like important parts of western civilization, like records, but we see, that they no more but destruction. And, therefore, brothers, why to copy one more decaying gentile civilization??! We are visionaries and witnesses of changing nations and cultures, they passing of and coming to existence, but we are eternal.
There were precedents in our past, when big parts of Jews joined another “teams”, another nations. Midrash (allegoric commentary Torah) tells about fifth of Jewish population which rested in Egypt and was punished with them. So let’s join the source of eternity - our Torah, directly given G-d’s will.
1. Things, which were recognizable sins, like to live sexual live with your relatives, to betray by your wife, pederasty, mating with animals. You see, friends, that same things happen in the modern Europe.
2. Turning to admiring different primitive societies: Germans, in general, in their tribal variations, but also Eastern primitive societies. Now, my friends, Europeans prefer to admire Asians, poor African tribes and so on.
3. Arts are influenced by “wild” cultures, by same barbarians, in Europe in came from period of modern art of 20 century (influence from Africa and so on).
4. Population is decreasing, the same we see in Europe now.
5. Inner proletarians stop to work and begin to develop different theories to justify it, they want a lot, but regularly this abundance come from exploitation of outer proletarians. And here I don’t come to deny socialistic theories, even opposite, I have certain respect for them, but just now a lot of factories are situated not in Europe, but in Asia, and this profit of inexpensive work power is given also to European work class and in such circumstances to claim continuation of socialistic reforms there in the West means to continue to robe third world.
6. People move from the setting “what I have to do” to “leave me please” and voices to return to harmonic existence in nature and with nature are heart.
In different variations you can find these characteristics in late Babylon, in Hellenistic Egypt etc. real complete analysis of events we’ll not do now, everyone can look in historical books and to see, that such big conqueror like Babylon in it’s late period was characterized by the same things more or less: sins became acts of honor, exotic barbarian tribes became the object of admiring and main power in army.
Elements of this decay are presented like important parts of western civilization, like records, but we see, that they no more but destruction. And, therefore, brothers, why to copy one more decaying gentile civilization??! We are visionaries and witnesses of changing nations and cultures, they passing of and coming to existence, but we are eternal.
There were precedents in our past, when big parts of Jews joined another “teams”, another nations. Midrash (allegoric commentary Torah) tells about fifth of Jewish population which rested in Egypt and was punished with them. So let’s join the source of eternity - our Torah, directly given G-d’s will.