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In Genesis, the God character, who is of course just a character because a divine being is a fiction for those too weak to face the realities of this earth, [frees] man from the [burdens innate in collectivism]. Subsequently, individual men, like the enterprising Joseph, are able to use their shrewdness and talents to acquire power and wealth, as is their inalienable right as individuals.<\/p>\n \tIn the beginning man was cursed with \u201cone language, one set of words,\u201d hindering his capacity for individualism (Gen 11:1). The narrative despicably refers to the collection of individuals as \u201cthey,\u201d as if all men were neatly encompassed in one unit, the enemy of individual freedom. The God character, seeing this grave offense, said coolly, as if a mountain were to say, \u201c\u2018As one people with one language for all, if this is what they have begun to do [pursue collective goals], nothing they plot [suppressing the rights of the individual] will elude them\u2019\u201d (Gen 11:6). And so the God character baffled their language and \u201cscattered them from there all over the earth,\u201d freeing them from the ills of collectivism (Gen 11:8).<\/p>\n \tWithout the burden of caring for the idle, enterprising individuals, with the strength and freedom of [true men?], could accumulate vast sums of wealth and power as a fair market reward for the valuable services they provide to society. Take the example of the young entrepreneur Joseph, who, after prudently stocking up seven years of food before a famine, capitalized upon this opportunity and traded his food to fairly take \u201cpossession of all the farmland of Egypt . . . for each Egyptian sold his field\u201d and himself into slavery (Gen 11:20). A weak man would say this arrangement is not fair, that Joseph took the property and the freedom of everyone in Egypt, but anything that is possible is fair, as freedom, in a political context, means only the absence of physical coercion and nothing more.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By John Veillette Oct. 31, 2015 In Genesis, the God character, who is of course just a character because a divine being is a fiction for those too weak to face the realities of this earth, [frees] man from the [burdens innate in collectivism]. Subsequently, individual men, like the enterprising Joseph, are able to use their shrewdness and talents to acquire power and wealth, as is their inalienable right as individuals. In the beginning man was cursed with \u201cone language, one set of words,\u201d hindering his capacity for individualism (Gen 11:1). The narrative despicably refers to the collection of individuals as \u201cthey,\u201d as if all men were neatly encompassed in one unit, the enemy of individual freedom. The God character, seeing this grave offense, said coolly, as if a mountain were to say, \u201c\u2018As one people with one language for all, if this is what they have begun to do [pursue collective goals], nothing they plot [suppressing the rights of the individual] will elude them\u2019\u201d (Gen 11:6). And so the God character baffled their language and \u201cscattered them from there all over the earth,\u201d freeing them from the ills of collectivism (Gen 11:8). Without the burden of caring for the idle, enterprising individuals, with the strength and freedom of [true men?], could accumulate vast sums of wealth and power as a fair market reward for the valuable services they provide to society. Take the example of the young entrepreneur Joseph, who, after prudently stocking up seven years of food before a famine, capitalized upon this opportunity and traded his food to fairly take \u201cpossession of all the farmland of Egypt . . . for each Egyptian sold his field\u201d and himself into slavery (Gen 11:20). A weak man would say this arrangement is not fair, that Joseph took the property and the freedom of everyone in Egypt, but anything that is possible is fair, as freedom, in a political context, means only the absence of physical coercion and nothing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}