Does the Current Chaos Herald the Messiah?

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So today, we are witnessing the end of possibilities. That would perhaps be the most striking messianic sign. The world is not at all like in my childhood, when I, well, in my youth, when I was 15, the world seemed wonderful, it seemed to have a bright future. Today, we are condemned to a certain form of gloom. Wars, global warming, the rise of fascism, generalized dumbing down by AI, by the media, by social networks. And so we have a sort of universal dogma that there is no other solution, no alternative, no substitute for the capitalist system. And there we are. It’s the end of history, it won’t go any further, and we are instead in a phase of regression that may lead us to annihilation. And some predict, they predict the annihilation of the human species, whether because of, or because of nuclear weapons, or because of other things. And the horizon is completely closed. So we have absolutely buried the utopia of a renewal essential for universal happiness. Uh to make the present moment absolute, and to say, well, there is no more future. This happens concretely through the growth of global trade, through technical progress, and also through a transformation of work that makes man more and more a slave to what the machine and the economy, in the broad sense of the term, impose for survival. And so we have something, and this is what is quite astonishing, a neutralization of the new. There is nothing new anymore. For example, AI is quite extraordinary in this regard, artificial intelligence is that AI is mainly linked to the predictable, to what is probable. And it works very well within the probable. It predicts the future in an incredible way. The weather, that's AI. The ability to predict the future and ensure with 99% certainty that it is true is much

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1. 0:00So today, we are witnessing the end of possibilities. That would perhaps be the most striking…
2. 0:30generalized dumbing down by AI, by the media, by social networks. And so we have a…
3. 1:31well, there is no more future. This happens concretely through the growth of global trade, through…
4. 2:32stronger than man. But that means we have moved from the possible to the probable. The…
5. 3:02quite unsettling, which is that there is no more hope. There is no more hope and…
6. 4:06quite significant. Uh this is what the Maharal of Prague speaks of, that the Messiah is…
7. 5:08is the form, that is the...the eruption of the real future. the eruption of the real…
8. 5:38past. All historians, all anthropologists define for you, analyze historical events like the French Revolution and…
9. 6:38science of death because it it it it only sees the historical event as the consequence…
10. 7:38there is such a wonderful word and incredible chiddushim, means that now the word is going…

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