Chapter from Shabtai Kor's book "New Driver"
Once upon a time, before we came down from the trees and discovered the fire, we walked on the king's road in the direction of progress. The feedback between the hand and the brain increased the use of the hand and caused the brain to grow and made us the crown of creation. Our survivability was at its peak. We were extremely smart and extremely flexible.
At some point, when cultural evolution caught up with biological evolution and started galloping us forward, we entered a cultural atmosphere of a different kind. We acclimatized, extracted senses, perfected and secularized walking in reverse. Marching as cultural evolution knows how to march, with giant steps. Unlike biological evolution, cultural evolution is responsible for its actions, it is a road embankment and prepares the ground for itself, so that it can walk on it faster.
The first terrorist in history was the pioneer to stick a stake in the middle of the road and warn: "Gentlemen, stop and consider whether there is any point in moving forward." The first to say to himself "I'd rather die than live"
No one stopped and no one thought. We just progressed and progressed.
No one suspected the monkey of free choice. No one treated his actions as good or bad, he was treated like the god of nature - that's how he is. We moved forward thanks to the biological evolution that chose us from every animal and raised us from all languages and turned our backs on it. The turning of the back of the neck received its appropriate expression when we differentiated ourselves from the general, denied the fact of being a link in a biological evolutionary chain and attributed to ourselves powers not ours, the "power of choice". But evolution, smarter than us, mocks at the side of the road and looks at us. From the top of a colony, she can see the edge of the wide road that disappears from us, its beginning and its end and determine that we are walking the opposite way, stepping back and making holes in the voyage ship. "Want to walk alone? you are welcome! We will see you! I, for my part, will keep the gravitation, I will stabilize the heavenly bodies, I will send the sun to shine during the day and the moon to dim at night and you. If you want, listen and if we don't, keep walking. I will send signals, note that the percentage of suicides is rising." Evolution says that it knows that we are stepping into chaos, the end of which will not be forced upon us by the snows that will melt or the earth that will shake. Each person will decide the end for himself. The free choice, the direct connection that man makes between his actions and his value are what will march us towards death and cultivate the gap - created out of nowhere - between the "human self" and the "model" between who he is and who he aspires to be.
"I gave you awareness, I gave you a finger, and you took the whole hand. You are only aware of a small part of what goes through you and you have already developed illusions, the courage to imagine that you have 'responsibility' and a 'direct connection' to what you are going through" Mother Evolution makes it difficult.
Our ability to commit suicide marks the gap at its maximal level. The will to live, which is the father of ancestors, head and first of all will, is capable of producing a will that contradicts its being. Even God is not able to create a stone that we cannot lift, the will is.
how? How can a will to live create suicidal impulses? The formula is very simple: first it must be assumed that there is responsibility and a connection between your actions and your value. A role model must be designed. Cultivate following him and hence the road to death is lined with failed attempts. Most of the people are killed by the diseases even before they had time to exhaust the window of opportunity. There are people who understand even before the circularity of nature, get bored with the equations in which only the numbers change and precede the diseases. As the cultural-evolutionary train gallops upward and provides more concentrated opportunities, man will be able to exhaust himself at a younger age...
Some anticipated a cure for the scourge and invented the God of good and evil who waits in a corner near the cemetery and leads the dead one to the garden and the other to the furnace.
What did they do beforehand? They put in place a chain of strict laws and extended the road to the exit by several hundred kilometers. Petah Milot was left to the sages who knew the times and said "Blessed is the rich man who is happy in his portion"...
The one who is happy in his part stops his verse and we don't continue "only the pure soul" is good for him with "there is no human being allowed from the animal" he does not understand what the fuss was about, he lives his life in happiness and peace. Hugging, loving, crying and laughing. "Slumper, lazy, bored" his haters say about him "Get up and do something with yourself" his lovers beg him. And he, he is silent and understanding in his own right, understands that this is his lot and that's how he got his fate. "getting up?" for what? Is it difficult to prove that I don't want to get up just by sitting down? "to do?" What exactly, what do you want? Why don't you do what I want? And what do I want? will you sit down No! I want you to keep getting up and doing what you want, to keep telling me to get up and do it... but I'll get up when I pee or poop because I don't like the cold and the itching after the warmth.
* Shabtai Cordova is a graduate of Yeshiva Ponivage and an ultra-Orthodox media person in the past who went to the question. Presented here as part of the opinions section.
