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So God's upset because he had made man 
on earth and it grieved him at his 

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heart,
and God says,

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I will destroy man,
whom I've created from the face of the 

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earth,
both man and beast and the creeping 

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thing and the fowls of the air for I 
repent that I've made them.

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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the 
Lord.

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Okay,
so that's an interesting thing.

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So here what we have is the question is 
the whole world's in chaos at this 

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point,
right in this point in the story.

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And the chaos is multiple sorts.
It's,

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it arose from the fall.
It rose from the emergence of self 

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consciousness.
It emerged.

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Safe arose from the sins of cane,
like things are not going well.

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It's multiple levels of collapse.
And it's got to the point where God 

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saying this is a mess,
like it's such a mess that the whole 

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thing has to be washed away.

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The first fall wasn't enough.
Even canes collapse wasn't enough.

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We're going to just scrub the whole 
bloody thing clean.

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So it's,
it's the ultimate in traumatic 

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collapses.
The question is,

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well,
what do you do in the face of the 

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ultimate in traumatic collapses?
And the answer is in the story.

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So Noah is someone who finds fate,
who finds favor in the eyes of God,

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so he's like able.
There's something that Noaa is doing 

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right that's going to enable him to ride
out the storm.

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And so the question here,
it's the same question.

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Do you want to have a life where there's
no storms

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or do you want to have a life where you 
can ride out the storms?

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That's the issue,
right?

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Are you behind the dikes or do you build
a boat?

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Do you captain the boat?
That's the same idea.

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So the idea here is that the thing that 
rides out the chaos is the thing that 

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builds and captains the boat.
It's another dominance hierarchy idea.

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What should be at the top?
Well,

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the top of something that doesn't get 
flooded out as well.

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What should be at the top?
Well,

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it's to be the boat builder and to be 
the captain of the boat,

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it's not to be hidden from the flood.
Precisely.

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And so,
I mean,

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here's,
here's,

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here's something to think about,
identity,

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identity politics,
because that's what we're up to our neck

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yet,
okay,

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are you who you are?
Can I box you?

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Will,
will you accept that as an identity?

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So I could do that.
Lots of ways.

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You're male,
your Asia,

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you're young,
right?

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There's things about you that I can 
derive because of your putative 

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membership in a set of different groups.
The problem with doing that is that the 

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number of groups that I can assign 
youtube is without.

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And so I have to pick arbitrary groups 
to assign you to and you can accept that

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if you want,
but there's no evidence that those are 

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the proper canonical groups.
But maybe you're happy about that 

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because now you've been assigned 
membership in a group and that's your 

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identity.
Okay?

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So the question is,
well,

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fine,
what happens when that identity is blown

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into pieces?
Then what?

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Well,
here's,

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here's the answer to some degree,
and this is the answer that's embedded 

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in the story of Noah.

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If you want it withstand chaos.
Do you want to be who you are or do you 

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want to be the thing that changes who 
you are constantly.

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That's the question and that's the 
difference.

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That's the difference.
There's a categorical difference in 

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identity.
Are you who you are or are you the thing

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that could continually be more than you 
are and that's the thing that isn't the 

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stable identity.
It's not the initial state.

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It's also not the state of being in 
chaos that nihilistic state,

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let's say,
and it's not even the state of 

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reformulation that occurs after you've 
gone through the process.

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It's the state of continually going 
through the process so you can identify 

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with the thing that trends you could 
identify,

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identify with the thing that you are or 
you can identify with the thing that 

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transforms who you are.
Right,

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and that's the same as the state 
subjugating itself to the individual 

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because the individual is the thing that
transforms the state and what the state 

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should do the states necessarily because
obviously it organizes all of us into 

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peaceful cooperation and competition,
the states necessary.

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Then the question is,
is the state the highest good?

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And the answer to that is,
well,

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it can't be because it's old and dead 
and blind,

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and so if the state becomes the highest 
good,

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then you're occupied by the spirit of 
something that's old and dad and blind.

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Well,
that's not only not good for you because

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then you're old and dead and blind,
but it's also bad for the state because 

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as soon as the state gets old and dead 
and blind,

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God gets unhappy with it and the chaos 
comes in and washes it away.

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So it seems like a bad solution.
So what's the proper solution?

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You subordinate your group identity to 
the identity that transforms your 

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identity,
right?

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And this state subordinates.
It's power to the vision and 

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articulation of the individual because 
that's what revives the state.

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And so that's what these stories are 
trying to stumble towards.

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Roughly speaking.