I've been dealing over the last few weeks with my somewhat Shaky current health

It seems probable that I can use arrest if I had the opportunity

And I knew how I [should] probably be having a rest right now

But be that as it may I have prepared this letter presumptuously to the world

Or at least to that corner of it with which I can communicate here at the dawn of the new year in these perilous times

Although I usually speak extemporaneously

That takes a level of capacity that I cannot quite currently manifest, so I'm going to read instead

It's also a careful argument. [I] hope and it required the editing for which only the written word can suffice

Dear World

On January sixteenth, I'm going to talk with Sam Harris on his podcast

Waking up with Sam Harris Dr.. Harris is one of the so-called new atheists of which there are four

like the other three Christopher hitchens

Dan Dennett and Richard Dawkins who by the way. I always wanted particularly to debate Dr.. Harris is a smart guy

And I'm certainly not complaining that [I] will encounter him instead of Darkens

So I'm preparing my arguments carefully although. I have been doing so for years the specific ideas. I'm going to share with you today

We're obsessing me from the moment. I woke up

Somewhat fitfully this morning

So I dictated them to my son and then edited them with his help

The central problem of human beings isn't religion as the new atheists insist

[it's] tribalism

We know this in part because Chimps are closest biological can go to war

And they're not religious

Although they are tribal

Tribalism also has a central problem, and it's not competition

Despite the tendency of competition to produce at least temporary early winners and losers

The problem of tribalism is cooperation

Because cooperation is what allows us to exist is bounded groups group by definition is a collective

Cooperatively aiming at something it can't be aimed at nothing because nothing cannot unite

It only divides

Thus attacks on collective purpose because of its tendency to Produce tribalism merely divide

The politics of identity which emerged when the central purpose is criticized to destructively?

Inevitably produce the situation described in the story of the tower of babel

Everyone fragments into primitive tribes and speaks their own mutually in comprehensible language

One alternative to fragmentation is of course union under a banner a collective ideal cause or purpose

The problem with uniting under a banner as the postmodernists to push identity politics rightly point out is that to value something?

means simultaneously

to Devalue other things

And thus to value is an exclusionary process

But the alternative is valueless pneus which is equivalent to nihilism

Denialism does not produce freedom from exclusion

It just makes everyone excluded and that's an intolerable state direction. 'less uncertain chaotic and Angst-ridden

When such uncertainty reaches a critical level

the counter Response appears

first the unconscious

and then the collectively express demand for a leader possessed by the spirit of totalitarian certainty

Who promises above all to restore order?

The Society without a unifying principle oscillates on Lord between Nihilism and totalitarianism

Human beings have been wrestling with this problem since the beginning of civilization

In our capacity to form large groups for all its advantages also started to pose a new threat

that of the hyper domination of the state

Collective or purpose, but without the state. There's just fragmentation into smaller groups

the group itself cannot be done away with

Because for better or worse human beings are social animals not loners like Sharks are tigers

We're team players

But being on one team means not being on others

this means that any given team sidelines

Marginalizes and alienates those who cannot play their game as well as conflicting with other teams

In the west starting in the middle east thousands of years ago a new idea began to Emerge

Evolved is not too strong a word

In the collective imagination you might following darkens consider this a mean although. This is far, too weak a word

This idea whose development can be traced back through egypt to mesopotamia before disappearing into unwritten history

Is that of the divine individual?

This eons old work of the imagination

is a dramatic

presentation of an emergent idea

Which is the solution to how to organize social being without falling prey to nihilistic divisive pneus or deceitful?

totalitarian certainty

the group must unite

but under the banner of the individual

The [individual] is the source of the new wisdom that updates the antiquated

nihilistic or totalitarian D'être tests and Glory of the past

for better or for worse

That idea reaches its apogee and Christianity

The Divine individual is Masculine because the feminine is not individual

The Divine Feminine is instead mother and child

However, it is a hallmark of Christian supposition that the redemption of both men and women comes through the masculine

And that's because the masculine is the individual

the Central realization

[Express] dramatically and symbolically is that the subordination of the group to the ideal of the divine individual?

Is the answer to the Paradox of Nihilism and totalitarianism?

The divine individual is the man that every man admires

and a man who all women want their men to be

The divine individual is the ideal from which deviations are punished by the group with contempt and disgrace

And finality to which is rewarded by the group with attention and honor

The divine individual is not the winner of any individual game

But the player who plays fairly and is therefore continually invited to play the divine individual is the builder

Maintainer an expander of the state he who boldly goes where no man has gone before

And someone who eternally watches over the windows and the children

His power of Direct and honest communication is that which identifies?

discusses and then resolves the continuum urgent problems of human existence

It is for this reason that he is regarded as the savior of the world

The primary image for women is not the divine individual because of the heavy burden they bear for reproduction

It is instead the divine mother and child

[this] is not to say that man is the divine individual and woman is not although such confusion is understandable

given the complexity of the problem

Man like women have the divine mother and child as an element of their personality

In man however, it's in the background, so to speak

as the divine individuals in the background of the psyche for women

men by Necessity play less primary Role in the care of Children

This frees them to act as individuals in a manner that up to now has been nearly impossible for women

Identification with these images is belief in the belief is not the statement of agreement with a set of facts

But the willingness to act something out to become something to stake your life on something

for men and women alike this means voluntary adoption of responsibility

responsibility for oneself Family and State

It's in that responsibility and not in rights that meaning itself resides

the meaning that makes life bearable

Societies that refused to honor both of these elements therefore doom their inhabitants to purposelessness unhappiness sterility

And the out for mention dangers of nihilistic to visit pneus and deceitful oppressive totalitarian certainty

The meaning and responsibility is the necessary meaning in life

Which can serve as a counterbalance to its terrible fragility and tenuous?

people must unite under the banner not of their group and not of nothingness, but of the individual

This is a brilliant and intrinsically paradoxical solution to the problems of nihilistic nothingness

and too rigid group identity alike

[it's] the consciousness of the individual which transforms the Chaos of potential [into] habitable cosmos

as the greatest origin stories repeatedly insist

It is that same consciousness which stands up rebellious and revelatory?

To break down the pathological and too rigid order of that cosmos when it has become old

Infirm Willfully blind and corrupt

It is that consciousness. Which is the image of [God] dwells within every embodied human form

the fact of its existence

Is the reason that the law of the land itself?

Must be bound by ultimate respect for the individual regardless of his or her sins and crimes

It is that consciousness not the objective

Material substrate of being which should be regarded as the ultimate reality

There's no self-evident reason why Dead matter should be given ontological primacy over living spirit

Although doing so has produced a massive increase in human technological power

Is left that power in the hands of an increasingly disenchanted [populace]?

And that presents a mortal danger

Such power must be wielded by those who have truly and voluntarily accepted the responsibility of being

less [to] [Prove] Fatal

The west has long being the civilized embodiment of the idea of the divine individual

Who does exactly that?

That's what the voluntary lifting of the cross of suffering symbolically represents

For all its faults which are manifold the west has therefore served as a shining beacon of hope

To those destined to inhabit places too chaotic or too rigid for the human spirit to tolerate

About the west is in grave danger of losing its way the negative consequences of this can hardly be overstated

a close reading of 20th century history indicates as nothing else can

the horrors that accompany

loss of Faith in the idea

of the individual

It is only the individual after all who suffers

The group does not suffer

Only those who compose it

That's the reality of the individual must be regarded as primary

of suffering

Is to be regarded seriously?

Without such regard there can be no motivation to reduce suffering and therefore no respite

instead the production of individuals suffering can and has

And will be again rationalized it justified for its supposed benefits for the future

and the group

Effective birth control has emerged as one of the consequences of our powerful technological materialism

This has been accompanied by the rise of [state] sufficiently

Civilized so that women who inhabit them can walk the streets unaccompanied Din safety

We do not yet know how to balance the opportunities that's provided for expanded female individuality

With the eternal necessity for a woman to serve as the mother of the divine individual

Dividing our civilization into polarized ideological camps of female group identity and male group identity is certainly not the answer

We have to be honest male and female alike about what we really want as individuals

And talk it out

We [don't] beyond dispute. The [Society's] whom emancipate their women are more productive and peaceful and that the relationship is causal

Thus it's not a matter of if but how

But such amounts of emancipation places a dual burden on the now more autonomous woman who is required to balance?

manifesting the potential of our individual spirit

With the necessity of desire to Bear and rear the next generation of mankind

to live with [free] women

And gain the advantages of their freedom and sophistication

Man must therefore bring their shadows psychic identification with the divine mother and child into the light

without losing their divine individuality in the process

They must consciously

voluntarily deliberately and strategically

Accept their responsibility for the relationship between Autonomous female companionship

support love and the responsibility of producing out next generation

This means rejecting among other things the misbegotten idea of casual sexual gratification

Sex is either the impulsive Short-term gratification of a domineering biological instinct

Or the Union of two conscious spirits taking responsibility for what they are doing

The former is simply not commensurate with the demands of an advanced civilization

Which requires the adoption of responsibility above all for its preservation?

maintenance and expansion

It is for this reason

That the sexualized interactions between young men and women in universities for example

Are increasingly and inevitably falling under the Harsh and tyrannical?

regulation of the State

In the west we are as well

Shuttering are great cathedrals

those marvelous

monumental embodiments of the idea of the Divine individual which our civilization is based

This is no mirror practical material matter

It's a symbolic and mediation process whose importance cannot be overstated

Without that central idea we will dissolve and be lost

It is time for each of us to consciously realize what the great symbolic stories of the past insist upon

That we are all sons and daughters of the divine logos consciousness itself

bearers of its light

And that we must act in accordance with that great central fact last all hell break loose

This means above all to tell the truth and to care for one another

Starting at the level of the individual and proceeding from that out to the broader reaches of society itself

The alternative as the same stories have always insisted

Is the more permanent instantiation of the horror?

That we already saw a manifest in multiple forms in the last bloody terrible century

We need to wake up individual man and woman alike [now]. We need to do it now

[each] of us must take the world on our shoulders

Insofar as we're capable of that

and adopt individual responsibility

For the horrors and suffering its existence entails

In that we will find the meaning without which life is merely the suffering that breeds first