The Importance of Local Freedom

The Bible is incredibly profound in the way its view of humanity spells out either towards tyranny at the highest level or anarchy at the lowest level. I've been very struck recently by the Jewish view that you think of the way we're created in the image and likeness of God. And we're God-like, so we're never animals. There's a drive-in sin to break out of that middle-level position in two ways. You can break upwards through reason and technology and assemble in the Old Testament as the Egyptians with their demigods. The other drive is to break downwards. In the modern world that's all a search for artificial intelligence will be like gods, as Harari