Question: Can the state educate a person with the spirit of nationalist patriotism, of the type in North Korea? What are its implications? Is the concept not a catalyst for the beginning of world wars?

Answer: Certainly, national patriotism or any other type of patriotism is contrary to the mutual convergence between all people and nations, and therefore constitutes a negative movement.

The world is in a state where it cannot welcome narrow-minded patriotism any more. Humanity is moving toward general unity not because that is what it wants, but because that is how the forces of nature are developing it. Opposing this is like shooting ourselves in the foot.

Let’s not engage in narrow patriotism; we will only suffer from it. We see that everyone who goes around arrogantly with their noses in the air ultimately will be bound by various restrictions, and no one will want to connect with him.

Therefore, we must accept a priori that our great world is integral. It is a “small village” in which everything is interconnected. There is no place for narrow-minded individualism because a person cannot do well for himself at the expense of others and vice versa, because it will act like a boomerang against him. We have seen this, and more than once, throughout the 20^th century.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Question: I don’t quite understand why I have to feel all of humanity. I have no need for it. I am even ready to overcome my egoism, but I can’t say that it is for all of humanity.

Answer: You should start gradually. Can you imagine how the whole world would change if Europe were made up mainly of educated people?

What not only Europe but other countries and continents would be like? There would be mutual cooperation, mutual help, and mutual support. The world doesn’t need anything else! Our only problem today is education and nothing but that.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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In the News (Breitbart): “Hundreds of posters displayed in a migrant-dominated part of Barcelona are urging Muslim men to marry Spanish women in a bid to spread Islam, and inviting members of the community to an ‘information meeting’.

“The posters, which are derogatory about Christians but call on ‘Brothers’ to marry women of the religion to ‘strengthen’ Islam, have been plastered through the neighbourhood of El Raval. Official data collected in 2014 found that 56.7 per cent of residents in El Raval were born abroad.

“’It is permissible and encouraged that the Muslim man marries honest and chaste women who belong to the People of the Book. Even though they have distorted and altered the tradition, they are still suitable for marriage.

“’Brother, enter a partnership with a Spaniard, teach her that Islam is the true religion. …

“Local media reports that El Raval is a key target for Muslim supremacist groups who say followers of Islam have a ‘right of return’ to Spain.”

My Comment: Spain was once conquered by Muslims and stayed under their rule for a long time.

According to Islam, the lands that were once Muslim for some time, first of all, are obliged to return to Islam, not to mention the entire world.

Question: What is going to happen to Spain?

Answer: The same thing that will happen to the entire world: Islam will cover the entire world. Of course, there will be big problems with Christianity, especially with Orthodoxy. But they will settle it. This is what the Torah says.

Question: What about us? Will we be able to handle it?

Answer: When they come up against us, they will become ill. But first they will conquer Europe.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/27/17

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New Life #643 – Centralization In The Israeli Economy
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

The wealthy are respected everywhere in the world and they have direct access to government officials. The wealthy have a very strong desire to swallow and control everything; otherwise, they wouldn’t be wealthy. Every person exploits others as much as possible; this is human nature, even that of the ordinary citizen.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #643 – Centralization In The Israeli Economy,” 11/5/15

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Comment: North Korea continues to increase its nuclear power. Around it, like sharks, American cruisers begin to move. South Korea is concerned about the events there. The entire world gradually starts to tremble, believing that a real nuclear war could be started there.

My Response: It is quite possible. The fact is that the young man that is now in power in North Korea never was at war and didn’t serve in the army, yet he is a commander-in-chief. So what can be done?

Comment: Nevertheless, they managed to stay independent and still remain in their communist miracle.

My Response: On the one hand, they lead a meager life, but on the other hand, they have a certain internal fulfillment in comparison to the rest of today’s world.

Comment: In principle, North Korea is characterized by purely communistic aspiration to equality, to the fact that everyone is working.

My Response: Such equality connects people, gives them inner fulfillment. If the next regime doesn’t supply this, then, of course, they won’t have this fulfillment. Freedom devastates a person.

It would be good to add Kabbalistic principles to what they are trying to build. The Kabbalistic principle is an equal distribution of the gross domestic product and practically no army, meaning just enough to protect the country, but not to be aggressive. Then, ten percent of the funds they spend on the army will be enough for them and they could become a beautiful developing country.

The fact is that the North Korean leader needs to remain in power, and so he acts this way.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 4/13/17

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In the News (The Guardian): “’We come in peace’ might be the traditional opening gambit for aliens in science fiction, but we should be wary about beaming back a response to any advanced life-forms in real life, Stephen Hawking has warned.

“Our first contact from an advanced civilisation could be equivalent to when Native Americans first encountered Christopher Columbus and things ‘didn’t turn out so well’, he cautioned. …

“It is not the first time Hawking has warned about the prospect of hostile aliens. Launching the Breakthrough Listen project, which will scan the nearest million stars for signs of life, last year he suggested that any civilisation reading our messages could be billions of years ahead of humans. ‘If so they will be vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria,’ he said.”

My Comment: If there were an extraterrestrial civilization that existed that possessed such high technology, accordingly it would also be on a higher level of thinking and social order. In fact, all structures of social development will develop in parallel and determine the levels of development of each other.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, no other civilizations besides this one on the face of the Earth exists in nature! Our universe fully reflects the higher system of HaVaYaH, from which it follows that we are alone in the universe and must bring the entire universe, the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate, to complete connection specifically uniting reasonably on the social (human) level.
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Question from Facebook: You say that the world is terrible. I just dropped everything and left the city. How can one live in the cities? Returning to nature is the solution to all problems.

Answer: I understand you, yet this is not the solution to the problem but an escape from problems. In principle, this is what many people do: If there is a possibility, they buy a small house on an island in the ocean and live there. You too are welcome to buy a house in the countryside and live in peace.

I personally cannot do this because I worry about the world, the society, people, their changing nature, and them reaching the purpose of creation. Studying the world, I begin to realize that the world was created for humans to change, to ascend, to transform themselves and thereby transform the world.

Therefore, I cannot retire and live somewhere on a tree, thinking that everything is peaceful and good. I am concerned about other problems than just retire and end my life in peace.

Moving from cities to nature will not change anything. This will not end our problems. We see that we left caves, climbed down from trees, evolved, and all this happened in us naturally. We cannot think of anything else.

We have nowhere to go because we only have a small planet Earth. Instead of separating and isolating ourselves from each other, we have to create good relations among ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/27/2017

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In the News (The Hill): From President Trump’s inaugural address:

“Count On Me, I Will Do It, I Will Not Retreat!”

“We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.

“I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.”

My Comment: Trump is, of course, a tough man and his attitude to the world is far from sentimental, so he will try to keep his promises in very serious and decisive ways. His policy will be mitigated, but the people behind him are basically greatly interested in making America great again. Even the billionaires already understand that otherwise their money will be worthless and they will lose everything.

Question: Does this mean that this is actually a carefully calculated move?

Answer: Of course. The Americans don’t give or do anything for no reason! Behind Trump there are the Rothschild, Rockefeller, and Baruch families that have had the world in their hands very tightly for the last 500 to 600 years. There are such forces that agree on and know what should be done since otherwise they will be lost!

There are many unemployed people in America today, drug abuse is widespread, people are perplexed, families are falling apart, robots are filling the world, and industry is disappearing, no one knows where to, which means that there is no future. Obama let millions of radical Islamist immigrants into the US, and this is the reason that Trump will have to clean up all that. It seems that he is ready to start doing so, and those who have elected him realize that they can bet that he will.

Question: What does the election of a president such as Trump indicate?

Answer: That we have to urgently change the world! The time has come! Even those who are at the top realize that otherwise it would be impossible to do anything. We have to give the reins to serious people, and Trump understands what he is doing. Such practical people do not underestimate anything.

Question: Do you think that we are living in good times?

Answer: We are living in wonderful times when the world is becoming aware of the despair and the dead end it has reached, but no one knows what should be done.

Trump is determined and says: “I will fix things, I will do it and everything will be done!” but people will soon discover that the only way to correct the world is by educating people! We have to build plants for “correcting people.” There robots are manufactured, while here we are manufacturing human beings. People should be educated and robots should work since that is what they were made for. We are entering a spiritual world and we will engage only in spiritual work, only in our correction. There is nothing we can do beyond that.

Comment: Let’s hope that your words will enter people’s hearts.

My Comment: This is desirable, of course, but if it doesn’t happen now, it will happen in a couple of years, and after some more blows. So it is better that it happens as soon as possible.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/23/16

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In the News (Independent): “French presidential candidates have backed a plan to introduce a universal basic income of €750 (£655) a month, in what they described as a bid to combat the threat of robots taking over three million jobs.

“Two of the seven candidates for the French Socialist Party leadership have proposed the measure, which would see every French citizen over 18 receive the monthly pay-out, regardless of their employment status.”

My Comment: It is impossible to introduce a basic income in one country when it is connected with the rest of the nations of the European Union. What would millions of Italians, Spaniards, Greeks, and all the others say? How would people from neighboring nations relate to their governments if France introduced a basic income for all?

Question: And if the European Union were to break up, would they be able to introduce a law like this?

Answer: In this case, yes. Otherwise the possibility of influencing each other cannot be ruled out. “I don’t want you to introduce a basic income because I am not in a position to do so. So, I will stick a spoke in your wheel.”

Question: And what about a person who would begin to receive a basic income?

Answer: What would happen is natural deterioration. If we don’t oblige a person to do anything, then total deterioration would appear because our nature is egoistic. The ego aspires to a state of tranquility or a direct uniform movement like all of nature. That is all, no superfluous and new movements.

And this would be a state of deterioration for the nation. A nation would not be able to do anything if it doesn’t obligate people to come out of their “lairs” and participate in serious events that develop and move them forward. Therefore, they must introduce integral upbringing and education and various social activities. Moreover, they must be mandatory. If not, then nothing will be left of humanity. It would slide back to the level of the beast by giving people the possibility of sitting in their dens and looking from there into the light with empty eyes.

Question: So is it necessary to introduce a basic income or not?

Answer: It is possible to introduce it only on condition that we employ people. First of all, it is necessary to introduce a system that would be seriously involved with the education of people and would obligate them. Conditions must be set for receiving a basic income: if a person studies and is engaged in a particular framework in which he works on himself to build a new future, a new nation, a new society, then he deserves a basic income. The physical work could be done by robots.

Then everything will start to flourish. As a result of education and upbringing, people’s needs will be reduced to a minimum, because there will be no earnings as such. Gradually, the base income will become mandatory. In principle, only this will remain because in the next ten years all the workplaces will be occupied by robots. People will no longer need to chase new excesses because everyone will have a certain normal income. Perhaps they will receive it not in money, but in the form of goods, food, clothing, free use of electricity, energy resources, and so on. That is, everything will be more or less reduced to non-cash settlement.

In general, this is a movement toward communism. Everyone will have a basic income and people will start working on building a free, egalitarian, and united society. This would be the work of people. Only a small part would be engaged with the development and construction of robots and their programming.

Robots are becoming commonplace today. Even though they look the same externally, they will be programmed differently, some will weld, others will glue, others will assemble, these will fasten, and so on. I have seen entire factories that were built like this. It was very beautiful!
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/18/16

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Question: How can I relate to the predictions of a Kabbalist who says that soon there will be no money or work? Could it be that the situation will continue for hundreds of years more?

Answer: I assure you that this situation will not last hundreds of years. Of course, we are not going to abolish work, pay, and all human relationships. We are only talking about where nature is leading us so that we will understand what is happening with us.

Understanding the general direction of human development is necessary for us. It is necessary to know this and explain it to all people because this affects everyone and spiritual work affects only those who have a point in the heart, those who must find the meaning of life. So, we deal with those people separately and personally.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/18/16

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