And then you've got the other version you've got the socialist version that's the other way of organizing human society and
That model
has an enormous advantage
because it seems to imply a moral system wrapped up within the economic system and so the
evil is camouflaged and obscured by the
terminology of for the people and caring about people in compassion
and it's for the poor and so on and so forth and here you've got these two models presented very clearly in the
eleventh chapter of Genesis, it's the story of the Tower of Babel and
there again
there are
Several very important points that are just a part of a
traditional biblical understanding of human life in the organizing of human life and
And and the story and the point in the natural is very simple imagine if you would that?
we we pause and
We carry on with the program and then later on this evening
I get as many of you as I can to cluster around and I say hey everybody I saw there's a Home Depot store
Not that far from here come on tonight when the program is done
Let's go to the Home Depot store and buy a whole bunch of two-by-fours come on
You all look at each other the Sun getting to the sky, what's with him?
But how about
if instead of that I said
Hey, everybody. We've got an evening clear before the program reconvenes in the morning. Why don't we build an?
extra room for
the Institute they're out of space
Let's work through the night and just make this happen the sun's gonna come up. There's gonna. Be another organelle commune say
Interesting how do we do it? I say no problem
We go down to Home Depot buy a whole lot of lumber
And then we'll work through the night and somebody will go and get beer that we can keep ourselves refresh
And there's gonna be a load of fun
and
There's a possibility I actually might get a few of you to join me doing that
But only if I tell you what the goal is before I tell you how you do it if I tell you about the doing
You know let's go get lumber. I haven't fired your spirit. I haven't excited your imagination. There's nothing there
Without best background you'll probably be astonished to hear
that
In those mysterious nine verses in Chapter eleven of Genesis and and again, you've got to realize
I mean This is a book that lies at the heart of Western civilization
In the middle of the 15th century when Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press
you know he didn't run off as his first venture the Disel Dorf telephone directory I
Mean it was the Bible this was the center of Western
Civilization the words were studied and pored over for meaning and and people understood
This wasn't just a narrative about long-forgotten people this was a blueprint to existence. It was a comprehensive
Theory on the totality of all reality and so they really looked at the section, and they said oh wait
I think this is very striking is very amazing
Do you know what it actually says in the in chapter 11?
It says that the people gather together and said hey everybody let's make rich
Wow let's make bricks
And everybody said yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go make bricks and then afterwards they say now all we do is a brick
So we'll build a big city with the tower that goes all the way up to the sky that boy girl can make a painting
of this and everything's fine, so
Well why don't you tell us what you wanted to do first I did you missed the point
The essence here is the bricks not the tower
You see there are two building materials available out there one is stones, and the other is bricks
And there's two fundamental differences between stones and bricks
Stones are made by God and each and every one of them is unique
bricks are made by people, and they're all absolutely identical to one another that's the whole point of bricks and
That was what the Tower of Babel was all about it was a model of let's make bricks out of everybody
you're all going to be treated as if you're identical to one another and this is going to be a creation of man and
What will come out of it?
Yeah, will be the tower and so on and so forth and it's not going to last very long
But that doesn't matter because the important thing is to turn all you into bricks not stones
That is very central to
this understanding
The tower was led by a man called Nimrod
The guy he hated like poison was a guy called Abraham
And there was this eternal struggle between the two competing visions of how to organize
Society the Abraham model, which is what built the United States of America? It's also what built ancient Israel and
You've got the Nimrod model the centralized control from the center tower
where everything is controlled and everybody is forced to be exactly like everybody else and
It is not hard in that
Matrix to recognize the difference between moral and immoral between right and wrong between freedom and tyranny
there are not halfway measures and
Let me
Do something at this point that I enjoy doing because one of the key things about the a dramatic model
Is that it is based on?
giving
It is not based on taking it is based on creating and making not on
Consuming and taking the Abramovic model is based on figuring out how can I bless other people?
What can I do for other human beings? I?
Alluded earlier to the fact that
My work is based on writing on a lot of this material
Producing ancient Jewish wisdom in formats that make it accessible to each and every person in the United States of America and
What I would like to do if I may is
Perhaps express
my appreciation by
The process of perhaps doing the following let me ask this and who has traveled the farthest to be here
Today well, I guess that would be me Seattle well. Thanks very much indeed
Where did you come from oh?
My goodness just Honduras do I hear anything higher than Honduras? Oh?
Come on. You came to this conference from Sydney Australia. Now you come here from Honduras for the conference you did
And you're here for the conference and now when are you going back oh my goodness?
Really Guatemala Honduras and Germany we're about
Really well come up here
Really, well, that's that's very generous. Then you come up here anyways
Come up here, because I would like to to give you this
and this is a
Package of some of the products that we make available
I'm not going to take time to tell you about them now because they're all here
But this is the one that we're discussing tonight. They're about shall prosper and this one on the top
I see here is called the perils of profanity
this is very helpful for people who find themselves using bad language and
Are and realize how it impacts their money-making?
Ability how damaging it is to to use language that is profane and destructive
Tell me like some of the things you really say note that that I'm just joking I'm just joking
Thank you very much if I pleasure to meet you enjoy
And so
What we what we see are two fundamental models an Abram model and a Nimrod model and
What we see is a Nimrod model is based on taking from people treating them as
disposable nothing but bricks an Abraham model that recognizes the creative power of every single individual human being and
These two models flow from how we answer
the three fundamental and
transcendent questions of life and
If you don't know what the three transcending questions of life are just go on an airplane ride
particularly one that has lots of delays which and it's frustrating and they don't have
Beverage service pretty soon you start talking to your neighbor you start off grumbling and complaining to each other pretty soon
there's communication going on and you find the same questions being asked all the time particularly if you're sitting next to a child and
The question is always the same
Where are you from? Where are you going, and what do you do? How do you help your fellow human beings?
What do you do for them? I'm not nosy. I don't want
I'm not just saying how do you make a living have you make money? I'm saying gee
What do you do for your fellow human beings?
And those are the three basic questions
The three basic questions lie at the heart of the entire human experience and three questions are how did we get on this planet and?
There really are only two answers to that and the answers have real implications
the two answers are number one the good Lord created us in His image and put us here and
a whole lot of people follow that view and that is a belief
But don't forget all the major decisions in our lives are made on the basis of beliefs not knowledge when you get married you believe
She's fantastic and you'll live happily ever after or vice versa it doesn't guarantee if there are no facts. What's more
Statistics. I hate that phrase right well people know I think that
Folks who try and obtain all the facts by living together before marriage, which seems to make all this in the world
Would you buy a car without driving it around the block they say?
But paradoxically the marriage statistics for folks who actually try and get all the facts are not good
Because there are certain major actions in life when we do on the basis of belief and it works better that way you invest on
Belief you do diligence you find out everything you can but if you actually had all the facts there wouldn't be any profit left
That's how the market works. It's belief and so people either believe that humans are on this planet
It was the good Lord created us in the image
With each and every one of us with a capacity to create and with a capacity to be unique and he put us here
The only other way, I'm aware of answering that question is that by a lengthy process of unaided
materialistic evolution primitive protoplasm turned into Bach and Beethoven. Oh
don't laugh real-really rude to laugh a lot at people's religions, so
Do you know the Third Way the only Third Way
I know these little green men in spaceships came and put us here
but that only postpones the question doesn't it where did they come from so there doesn't really help and
So it is with a question where we're going to end up in the question of what we're doing over here
But this fundamental question of are we here
By a process that renders us nothing but sophisticated
Animals, or are we here as unique beings touched by the finger of God?
It's very very important
Because if we are here only as a process of an era in materialistic evolution
Then I'm nothing but a primate I have less hair than many other primate
You didn't have to laugh at that one
You know I don't have as good eyesight. I can't run as quickly, but I'm basically I'm basically an animal
I happen to have a brain other animals don't have the same
But that's all I am if that's the case then it is only right and appropriate that
I should
Be taken care of by a zookeeper
or a farmer in the great, Beltway
That makes all the sense in the world
because if I am an animal and
that makes me the same as all my other animals and that is a
Farmer or a zookeeper does exactly what he has to do if he gives all the cows the same amount of food
Comes back a few hours later and finds that one cow is accumulated most of it. Well. Yeah the cows have nothing left
He'll do what any smart farmer does he'll redistribute the food. It's the moral right thing to do and
So through this mechanism it becomes apparent that if indeed our
Vision is one without any shred of spirit and without a shred of moral foundation
Then I would have to conclude that socialism is the default position for good and decent people
Barbarism and maybe tribalism is the default position for people who don't have the act together
But if you strip away
the foundations of faith and
The belief system by means of which the human being is something unique and wondrous and special then you also have stripped away
the foundations of a system that says
Freedom is more important than equality
Because for animals equality is more important than freedom the two danbury era and for human beings freedom Trump's
Equality that's really what it's all about and so we we thought we asked the question of what's right about the free-market
Economic system the answer is almost everything in and of itself
You mustn't make the mistake of thinking that it is a moral system as well
It's an economic system
but it's an economic system that is held up and propped and maintained by the
Existence of a spiritually based moral system as well, and that is an unbreakable
Combination it's one. That is endured and it is one that has created for us all here the the greatest model of
Prosperity and freedom that the world has ever seen in all our time
Ladies and gentlemen. I thank you all so much for being part of the Mises Institute
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