Necessity, the Mother of Obligation

The Bible as Literature

In The Republic, the Platonic school discusses the origin of the state and the nature of human justice, implying that necessity drives the creation of human invention.

Years later, in 2024, Plato’s school produced Blue Anon and its twin cousin, the historical realization of President Camacho. They gave birth to a son, and they called his name Adenoid Hynkel. He appeared unto them as a guest speaker in the hallowed hall of Plato's democracy.

But remained the scroll of Genesis, wherein (despite their ignorance of its unvocalized Semitic letters) the biblical text ridicules human invention, circumscribing the act of creation to a deity that cannot be depicted, described, or conceived of as an imaginary projection of the human mind.

According to _Genesis_, a political gathering comprised of touching personal narratives is blasphemous because this God cannot appear in your stories. Likewise, your spin doctors are an affront to God—your powerful people who justify violence, propping up a Manchurian candidate—your city builders and storytellers, creatives who invent things out of the necessity of Plato's state.

Their mother is your lust for survival.

You know who they are in the original Star Wars universe, And if Obi-Wan were here, you know what he would say.

“That is not the mother you are looking for.”

Throughout the books of the Law, the God of Abraham utters ordinances and statutes with his promise of life, which is given part and parcel of the threat of the curse of the Law.

In Ezekiel, the hearers of the Law come face to face with this teaching in exile.

What does the Sabbath mean in the wilderness?

What is the blessing of God’s curse?

Why do Ezekiel, Leviticus, and Luke prescribe necessity as the mother, not of invention, but obligation?

This week I discuss Luke 6:2-5.

(Episode 527)

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