Medium published my new article “Medium: Elon Musk vs. Twitter”

Over the past several weeks, Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, has been releasing what became known as the “Twitter Files.” The “files” are dumps of internal correspondence among former execs in the company, which Musk fired as soon as he purchased the company. The dumps reveal routine blacklisting of conservative journalists and politicians, including then President Donald Trump, blocking of tweets that did not fit the company’s political agenda, and suppressing news that did not advance the liberal cause, such as the now verified story of Hunter Biden’s laptop.

I have no doubt that Musk knew what he was buying when he went forward with the deal. I am sure that not only Musk, but many other people did background checks for him, and told him what was going on in the company. This also explains why the first thing Musk did when he took over the company was to fire the top stratum of the company.

I do not think that Musk’s intention is to cleanse the world of evil or of evildoers. If that were the case, he would have already been “cleansed” by the evildoers. Nevertheless, I am very much in favor of Musk’s exposures, and the fact that he has succeeded and survived thus far must mean that either he is lucky, or that something I am not aware of is at play here.

Yet, Twitter is only one platform. There is no doubt that the situation is no different in Facebook, or in any platform that is a hub where billions of people go and can be influenced.

In the end, the name of the game here is power and control. This is why the former Twitter executives did what they did, and why all the big tech media and internet companies manipulate data. This is also why the FBI, according to the Twitter Files, was involved in the maneuvers.

The bottom line is that whoever controls the media, controls what people know, and whoever controls what people know, controls what they think. When you control what people think, there is no limit to what you can do with them. This is the end goal of the big tech companies: power and control for the sake of power and control.

I do not know if Elon Musk is after power and control or after something else. He has been a high-tech pioneer for many years, and founded Tesla and SpaceX, but Twitter is a new thing for him. Where it will take him is anyone’s guess, and it might lead him into all kinds of entanglements with various companies and people. Either way, I am always in favor of transparency and exposure of problems because this is the only way to recognize problems and malfunctions, and subsequently mend them. Therefore, whatever motivates Musk, as long as it unveils the truth, I am all for it.
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Question: You once said that in order to make a decision in life, you can even flip a coin, etc.

But one Frenchwoman named Lori came up with the following: on her Telegram channel, she conducted a survey on what to do, and now she does exactly as her admirers advise her.

She wrote: “How I act depends on you; you choose my future.” Subscribers vote, and make important life decisions for her. And she reports to them: “Thanks to you, I blocked my boyfriend whom I didn’t really like, took a helicopter tour although I’m afraid of heights, and left my internship that I didn’t like.” She writes: “I don’t regret anything, I’m terribly interested in what this experience will lead me to.”

Is it possible to trust the collective like this?

Answer: It’s good. She has something to lean on. Many of her admiring readers still give her confidence.

Question: Do you think you can rely on such group brainstorming?

Answer: No, not that whatever it says is right or wrong. But it gives her confidence! Afterward, whatever happens, happens. The main thing is that at every moment she believes that she is doing the right thing. And this feeling corrects the wrong step; that is what is interesting.

Question: So this confidence of mine makes the wrong step right?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Are our steps mostly correct or incorrect?

Answer: Any of our steps are wrong. All steps are wrong because they are egoistic!

Question: Every one of them is focused on what is comfortable for me and what is profitable for me. Is this what you call a wrong step?

Answer: Yes. When you look long-range, this is absolutely the wrong step. I can steal something somewhere in the near future or do something like that, and it will seem that I am lucky. And in general, of course, nothing good will come of it.

Question: Which step do you call the right one?

Answer: For the benefit of the majority. The absolute majority!

Question: Can the collective suggest such a step? Is it for our benefit to take such a step?

Answer: Naturally! If the collective’s thought is that you are taking a step for our benefit and a person is taking this step, then this step is more or less correct.

Question: Is there any advice you can give people on how to act so that this will be correct?

Answer: Work for the masses.

Question: And if I consider this mass to be cattle?

Answer: So what? Even more so.

Question: So I work for the masses whom I despise?

Answer: Of course. And who does not consider himself smarter than the rest?

Question: Do you think that inside, everyone considers himself smarter than everyone else? And if he who considers himself smarter than everyone else still acts for them, is this what is called a real step?

Answer: Yes. This is what I advise, and after that…

Question: But you understand that this advice is a bit… Maybe you can advise something easier to implement in life ?

Answer: I have already given you life advice. This is a credo, a life credo.

Question: I see. That is, when masses went to die for the collective and they died for other people, was it an egoistic step or not? What was it? Were these heroic deeds?

Answer: No, it was easy. They blended with the collective, and it was easy for them. When you run into battle with everyone together and you shout “Attack!” and so on, you just drown in the connection with the others; you don’t feel yourself. This is the ecstasy of a battle.

Question: And here when you say, “For others, you do it for the masses,” what do you mean?

Answer: You are doing what is for their benefit! And you don’t just do it together with them in order to merge into them and not feel like a person.

Question: What can be for their benefit?

Answer: Whatever is for their benefit, for the benefit of the majority, I do not know; each case is different. And ideally it is bestowal, love, and connection.

Question: So you’re broadcasting it there: “I live for you”?

Answer: Yes. And this is the right step.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/10/22

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Question: You wrote about what a broken heart is in your blog. I liked where you said: “To ‘break’ the heart means to attain that same point in which we were once as a single, unified picture of Malchut and then were shattered into numerous parts.”

Do I understand correctly that the feeling of being separated from all other people is called my broken heart?

Answer: Yes. Only when these two sentences are linked together, they do not sound quite right.

We all come from the same state—from one heart, from the same desire. This desire then broke into many parts. This action is called the shattering. Afterward we each exist in our own separate egoistic desire.

It is called a broken heart when everyone feels only himself and not the whole global system in which the Creator is located.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/27/22

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Question: At this stage you are the next transitional link after Rabash. Is this why it is desirable for you to do many things during your lifetime before you leave the world in this representation?

Answer: Yes, it is desirable to do as much as possible.

All the same, we can say that I laid the foundations for the system of correction all over the world with groups, books, archives, lectures, and methods so much so that my students can continue it all, and they are doing it. Practically, apart from our morning lessons, they do everything else on their own.

Therefore, I can say that when necessary, I can leave without any worries. Of course, I would like to see the complete correction of the world because every Kabbalist wants to see it. But I do not predict such things.

You cannot imagine how much a Kabbalist does not care if it happens to him today or in a couple of years or what will happen at all. It does not matter at all. The main thing is to move everyone as close as possible to complete correction until the very last minute.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How Does a Kabbalist Die?” 11/16/13

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Question: Why is it very difficult for Europeans and representatives of Western civilization in general to be absorbed in Israel?

Answer: The cultures are different. Israel is an Eastern European, not a Western culture. After all, the principle of Jewish life—collectivism, mutual responsibility, mutual empathy—has nothing to do with the European, and even more so with the American way of life.

Of course, we can live and prosper there, but to truly adapt to their society, to feel comfortable in it, we cannot. However, people who settle there, the second or third generation, find it very difficult to settle here – they must go through a period of adaptation again. Therefore, they create their own communities.

In addition, the language, local culture, and local relations are quite warped here. After all, Israel is a very peculiar country, with a huge bureaucracy, security problems, and uncorrected “collective farm” that came in large numbers from all countries and cannot unite and melt into a single whole.

Of course, for Westerners who come from complete comfort, leaving huge villas, swimming pools, and everything else, European culture, which they were hooked on and which they consider to be the greatest and most advanced, it is very difficult here.

So, I understand them, but they have nowhere to go. They can go to other countries, but I do not see much of a future for them there. European Jewry has no future. This is the gradual development of Nazism, which will put more and more pressure on them.

As we know from the experience of Germany, Jews can live there until the very last moment, and then also justify their persecutors. History repeats itself. It will not be different in Europe this time.

And in America too. It is just that America is too big, too divided, and too layered. But even there mutual hatred will rise because seven to eight million Jews have settled between Latin Americans, African Americans, and Europeans and they are like a bone in their throat. The little bone in the throat still feels bigger than anything else.

Therefore, everything is going to escalate because it is through aggravation that we can solve this problem, that is, realize why such hatred arises.

In past centuries this problem also existed, but it was not recognized. First, there were religious conditions for it, then financial ones. Even though they still exist today, in principle, humanity should clarify everything for itself. This is an eternal problem that will not go away.

We, the Kabbalists, must spread our vision. As a result, sooner or later the world will know the reason for such relationships and what they lead to.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Moving to Israel” 12/7/13

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Comment: You said that, in principle, a person who is studying Kabbalah does not have to participate in public actions that the group participates in to unite the masses, but he initiate creating some platforms where people unite.

My Response: The fact is that there are people who can be leaders, and there are those who can only be assistants. Everyone should find their place, but still take part in dissemination.

Everyone should participate as much as possible in what they are capable. Otherwise, you do not express yourself. After all, in this case you will have no vessel, the feeling of the next degree.

Question: Why is it important that all participants express themselves from time to time, both quiet and active ones?

Answer: It is because figuring out the love of friends for each other contributes to their rapprochement. For this, there is a clear instruction from Kabbalists.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Self-expression” 12/15/13

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Question: When an example is given in a Kabbalistic group, you begin to understand from it that you are not completing something. Can a Kabbalistic group set an example for the world? Will people be able to feel that we have an equal relationship and be drawn to this?

Answer: They will be drawn based on two forces. One force is suffering, which pushes from behind, and the second force is good, which pulls forward.

It all depends on the strength of the environment acting on everyone. It is in the power of the collective to make it so that a person will not be able to think differently. He will not be able to because he is a single small being in the collective field. And if this field begins to act correctly on him, he will be obliged to obey.

To enter the collective or disconnect from it is a person’s free choice. And when he enters, the environment already affects him, and he rides along with everyone without any problems.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Living Example” 12/3/13

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All our work consists in correcting the spiritual vessel, which is called the soul of the first man Adam HaRishon. The Creator created this common desire, and then shattered it into many pieces. And now in each of us there is a tiny particle of that common soul.

We are called human, that is, “sons of Adam,” because we come out of the desire, which is called Adam HaRishon. Our task is to unite our disconnected, distant, separated desires back into one desire through our efforts.

Of course a lot of work is required here because all these particles have separated and moved away from each other due to the differences in their forms. And how is it possible to glue together completely different desires? We begin to examine according to what qualities it is possible to combine one desire with another until we get a single whole in which everything is connected together.

And the more desires this common desire absorbs, the more it feels and reveals the upper force that created it.

Therefore all our actions should be aimed at connection. This determines the whole attitude to life, to the Creator, to the friends, and to oneself and one’s state. With each of my actions, thoughts, and desires, I strive to push the connection forward in order to further bring together and unite different desires and turn them into one single common desire for mutual bestowal.

All private desires are broken and do not want to connect. The Creator did this on purpose to give us the opportunity to feel the difference between a broken desire and a whole one. And due to this we begin to attain the Creator as the advantage of light from darkness.

The Creator divided the common desire into billions of opposite parts, and then He helps us, at our request, put them together and make up for each other. When we combine all the pros and cons together, we feel how powerful a united desire is compared to the weakness and insignificance of a shattered one.

On this difference of potentials—between plus and minus, between connection and division—we will feel the full power and depth of creation, we will attain the intention and work of the Creator, and ourselves.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/22, “Each Day They Will Be As New in Your Eyes”

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