Ki Thisa: banality

Ki Thisa: banality

 

The Wall Street Bull

Is this the golden calf?  Belief in a future based upon better information, better judgement, ever upward, ever richer. The bull market is the market with faith in the future (Chronos) . Paroah's Par.  וַיַּרְא מֹשֶׁה אֶת-הָעָם, כִּי פָרֻעַ הוּא: The faith that time will solve all problems, just keep slaving away.

The people say: We never understood  what Moshe was about.  -כִּי-זֶה מֹשֶׁה הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר הֶעֱלָנוּ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם, לֹא יָדַעְנוּ מֶה-הָיָה לוֹ  The purveyor of new missions, like liberation; and arbitrary new rules  like  Shabbath.  Inscrutable. 

The people ask Aron to give them a new object, something to sing and dance to. New rules, fun rules.  After all, all rules are arbitrary and arbitraged.

But to follow the wrong rules defines evil, the root of banality