Many people have been pondering about the Philosophers stone -- the ability to turn worthless minerals into Gold. Also, people have been wanting to do the same about wisdom. To make dull people really smart. What I am talking about now, might sound heretical and obnoxious, but relates to the fairy-tale of "The King, who ventured to the Moon" How did he wanna go there, by stacking boxes on top of each-other and climbing up to them, but alas, all resources there pooled to build that tower, and it came short of one pesky rotten box, to achieve the goal -- so King ordered to build the bottom box, because he needs boxes on top and not on bottom! And all came crumbling down...
In a way, peoples understanding on Faith; Government and Family is also like this King wanting to get to the Moon. What does it mean, if you have a large pool of really smart people in your society? In order to understand this question better, lets bring it to MTG and ask again. Let us assume, that a smart person we want mores in society is like the 8/8 Gate Colossus -- but you only can have 4 copies of it in your deck. On top of that, it needs resources to get to the playing field; while you're gathering those resources, you're opponent is not sitting idly by and letting do your thing. Even if you somehow mirrored and dublicated those 4 you still have only 12 of 60 and that is already very hard to get into play.
In real world you also need resources to support your brainy people. So much so, that Lao Zi concocted a controvercial philosophy of dumbing the folk down, so they wouldn't crave and imagine things. A unimaginative rabble don't get into revolts and invent stuff, meaning -- they are easier to govern! What you want in the world? Freedom or Safety! Freedom means choices, but it necessarily doesn't mean having good answers to those choices. Solomon, who was deemed the smartest guy in Israel, cause, God Himself told so, ended up abandoning God in all his wisdom. The first angel God created; the most perfect of them all, was Lucifer, who couldn't take it, that Man was created, ended up rebelling against God! It almost seems, the more you seek wisdom and freedom -- the more unsafe you really are.
Coming back to the question, why its bad then you have a lot of wise men in one country. If something is exeptionally good, than people tend to spam it, til they have filled every viable resourse into it. It's like pooling all stuff together, to buy a huge diamond -- a geode. While this geode is valuable indeed, its not the rainforests; it cannot breathe you air for your carbon-dioxide. It's not the fields, to produce you Barley and Wheat etc. It's not your housing, to keep your warm and comfy while allowing to rest and leisure, and protect your stuff. Its only one thing, requiring a lot of things to exist, while contributing only very little. For instance Monarchy also costs a lot, but gives you a ruler; a military expert representing a leader in battle; the person who gives and grants authority to law and judgment. But he himself is not working on the fields nor doing else useful. He just leads, and costs hell of a lot in so doing. Now imagine having a thousand Kings of that kind. Who in the right mind would support that??
Trying to have a thousand wise men has the same impact. Not only that, but it also does a different thing, called "inflation". While we normally notice it with money being the blunt way to distinguish value, it can also be understood spiritually.
For that let me tell you a hangmans joke about skiing: "What type of people end up dead in the mountains? -- The cocky experienced kind!!" What do cocky experienced guys have in common. They are proud. They take risks, knowing the hazards and having the experience to get into greater challenges. And sometimes they overestimate themselves or are pretty damn unlucky -- and are never heard again. In the olden days, those there refered as "the insolent, who disturbed the Mountain!" What do the other people do. They keep it to the straight and narrow and don't have unnecessary risks. Because of that, they mostly survive!
When you have a lot of wisemen, then it flattens all the moral mountains into plain fields, good for charging around. Nothing is challenging enough to flavour of spice the life, making it dull and boring. Just like the fairy-tale. A new box is needed to stack upon, but the kingdom is all out of boxes. What to do?
That is the reason, why revolutions; wars and plagues happen, to reshuffle the deck of life and fate. Otherwise stuff wouldn't get done, and things wouldn't get invented. If people would adapt to the Sermon of the Mount, and live according to it -- ALL OF THEM! This would be a bad thing, because all color and value would vanish from existence. People would either transform into a trickster like Loki, who does only mischief, or a Nightmare demon, like Alp or Vendigo, who punishes you for the smallest infraction with death!
You can't create perfection on Earth, like you cannot create the perpetual motion machine. At a given time all motion must siece because of counter-motion and traveled space/time lost energy etc. If you're eating the cake, eventually you will run out of cake! If you don't eat it, it will spoil and rot! So either way, its a loose-loose cituation, if you wanna uphold status quo...
What you'll need is stupid shit, in order for anything to work. Not Oko kind of stupid shit, there everything is turned into an elk, til you have Oko Uno and the Elk-hood living around. Stupid vanilla kind of shit what can't mix deathtouch with lifelink, if referencing MTG or doublestrike with trample. In a MTG game not the heavy hitters play the games, but the support engine, to eventually get the heavy hitter into play, if the resistence is elaborate enough to support that, because mostly the game ends on turn 5 then the heavy hitter probably shows up on turn 7. That's from the time, then normal non-spiced decks there a thing. But since Magic the Gathering has sunk into a singularity sink hole, like a certain character in Red Alert: Tiberian Sun stealing an alien space ship to settle a score and epicly fail.
If there are too many savants, or one particular savant, who runs all the show, then eventually all will team up against that guy and kill him off. That is the nation of Mankind. You can't have Singularity things oozing around like a black hole, sucking all energy out for themselves!! Nobody likes that, especially the savant, who wants to do the right thing, but can't -- he's too big and powerful; has too many restrictions and achieves very little because of that.
Why did Jesus say: "If you want to rule it all, be a servant of the servant!" What rules peoples lives and minds today. "Internet and I-phones!" What do those do? Give you everything you wanna entertain yourself with. In so doing they have the control over our time and space. What did the Sermon of the Mount say: "Blessed are the poor of spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heavens!" I think we can check that one out over the internet. Then the Singularity becomes, then mankind is done, because no mere mortal can be more meek as an automaton, who doesn't pay taxes; need more sustenance as coming from a cord and does not strike nor require weekends or vacations. Just some mere maintenance of couple of hours and thats it. Try to top it!! Or that one: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth!!" so very Christian, then meek servos are running everything...
And yet, singularity is our dream of happy safe future, there we all lie under our Sycamore tree and let the mashines do it. Wake up -- He, who owns your work, owns your future!!" Machines don't even need culture and games, unless its some kind of variable research kind -- it could be well, that in the future, we are running in rat mazes to solve mathematical problems to a Matrix kind of entity. Will it be perceived as Heaven or as Hell, is up to anyones decision.
As a Christian, it would be biased to ask you to choose something over it. Pick your poison, for it was merely a mental exercize! Have a nice second of November, only three days til 5th -- the Gunpowder plot. What ever could I write on then...
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