From Mistreatment towards Anomie

Radicalization and the Eclipse of Western Values

Totalitarianism on Spotlight

ByDr. Thomas Albert Gilly

 

 

Mistreatment, Minority and Radicalization

It has long since been argued that mistreatment impacts the behaviour of human beings. In the criminological literature the issue is discussed primarily within the general frame of youth delinquency and youth radicalization. Also, the topic is central to minorities. In that respect, the observation that the mistreatment of minority groups came rapidly to the fore of the critical criminal justice and criminal policy debate does not really come as a surprise.

 

Mistreatment may consist of segregation, racism, hate, abuse, exclusion, suspicion, or simply lack of trust or consideration.

The mistreatment of minority groups is obviously relevant to the explanation of youth radicalization. History teaches us that minority groups are predisposed towards mistreatment more so than majority groups. This is so evident that sociological mainstream jargon and public opinion automatically associate minority with mistreatment. The equation: minority = a mistreated community is so deeply anchored in the collective consciousness of the western world that almost all deviant and criminal behaviour of members of minority groups tend to be perceived in the public opinion and sociological mainstream discourse as a legitimate reaction against mistreatment. As a result, the explanatory sociological discourse has become increasingly supplanted by the “politically correct” comprehensive approach to deviant and criminal minority group members. As far as such an interpretation scheme is underpinned by moralizing complicity with people who behave in a deviant or criminal way and by intellectual apologies for crime and deviance related to minorities, it provides moral support for crime and deviance

However controversial it may be, the transgression of the law can never be legitimated in the name of morally just as a reaction against exclusion and mistreatment. The respect of the law, in modern democracy, is an absolute maxim. 


Mistreatment is obviously an issue that is highly relevant to the explanation of crime and deviance, namely crime and deviance within minority groups. And it is obvious that mistreated youth, namely minority youth, are more predisposed towards radicalization than young people who are well treated.

 

However, this is not really and innovative think-tank.

Rather is it the complexity of the problem which is involved:

 

(i) To what degree does mistreatment impact the radicalization of diverse communities and within which of the diverse communities?

It could be that communities /minorities react in different, or even opposite ways, to mistreatment. For argument’s sake, not all communities that are mistreated react with radicalization and violence against the mistreatment. And mistreatment is not specific to minority groups. We meet mistreated people in almost all social groups.

Also, the members of a given community may be mistreated by other members of the same community, although the same community is not mistreated by other communities.

 

(ii) The Complexity of victimization

Who are the victims then?

First of all, the mistreated community, namely the mistreated minority and, within minority groups, the youth are victims of the mistreating majority, according to classical school. The second category of victims consists of the majority group members, victims of the violence used by the mistreated minority as a reaction against their mistreatment.

But there are other cases that do not belong to this classical scheme: For example, the acculturated minority elites may mistreat the majority of the group. Mistreatment among minority youth is not necessarily the result of minority mistreatment by the majority.  There is not necessarily a correlation between each, and the mistreatment amongst minority youth often varies as a function of the development of a crime culture, regardless of and independently from the real, supposed or irrelevant victim quality of the community to which they belong. In other words, this means that some minority youth may mistreat others belonging to the same community because of the crime culture, not because of their membership in a mistreated (real or supposed or even irrelevant) minority. It can not be asserted with certainty that people, in particular minority youth who behave in accordance to the code of crime culture, are likely to consider what they do to the other as mistreatment, though the way they behave is likely to be considered as mistreatment by people who are foreign to the crime culture environment. And it is not certain either that the victims of crime and violence in crime culture of youth minority feel as though they are victims of mistreatment. Gang fighting within a specific minority community or between different ethnic youth minority is a highly eloquent issue.

As crime culture is an issue that is not specific to minority and minority youth, the preceding observations apply logically to majority groups

When entire majority groups or members of majority groups become victims of crime and violence committed by minority as a reaction against their mistreatment, it is then that the majority group, in turn, may react with violence against the crime and violence of the mistreated. They may react because they themselves feel mistreated by the minority and in general they consider themselves as mistreated, it is simply that they are not likely to consider what they do to the other as mistreatment. .  

                                                                                                                         

(iii) Does the radicalization that results from mistreatment automatically culminate in deviant, criminal and / or violent behaviour? Could it not be that radicalization, to some point, impacts positively on collective behaviour?

 

 

(iv) Are terrorists mistreated minority people?

Supposedly, they are. The myth continues to be attractive for public opinion, intellectual circles and mass-media. – Contra: The history of terrorism teaches that the members of the terrorist board directory belong to the acculturated political and intellectual elites of minority groups.

Are all young peoples that are recruited in the Western World by terrorist organizations mistreated people? Or is it rather anomie that favours minority youth predisposition towards recruitment for and engagement in terrorism?

 

 

 

Minority, Acculturation and Anomie

This is a very important observation in that the issue of being a minority can not be dissociated independently from the topic of acculturation;

Acculturation is first and foremost and genuinely a sociological topic. Does this mean that the topic of radicalization, to be appropriately understood and/ or explained, requires a sociological or even political perspective that completes the psychological framework of youth radicalization?

This is certainly the most important problem. And the challenge, which may be the most important one of our times, consists in taking it up and trying to resolve it.

Here is not the place to take up this challenge; and the problem which is involved can not be resolved either here. Rather it is to be outlined.

 

Acculturation is the process by which members of one cultural group adopt the habits, beliefs and the behaviour of another group. Acculturation usually occurs in the direction of a minority group adopting the habits and language patterns of a dominant group. Traditionally, this is the paradigmatic meaning and the paradigmatic use of acculturation. However acculturation can operate in the direction of the dominant or majority group adopting the habits, beliefs and behavioural pattern of the minority group.

Acculturation does not mean assimilation. Rather, it fits within the concept of emancipation (the opposite of assimilation) in this acculturated people or communities adopt the life style of the majority or minority group without giving up the original culture.

 

Acculturation can, but does not necessarily engender anomie.

Two hypotheses are to be distinguished:

-         The paradigmatic meaning of acculturation:

 Anomie might occur within the minority group. The norms that are traditionally aimed at goal achievement and value protection become frail and loose their genuine nature. This assumes that the inherent norms of the minority group, during the process of acculturation, remain, to a certain degree, relevant to the members of the minority group, though they progressively lose their impact upon the minority group’s social life. As long as the values and norms of the minority group are strong enough to impact the group’s social life and organization, there is little chance for anomie to develop. In other words, the better the minority is assimilated (the disruption of the original norms and values), the more anomie is involved..

 Even in the case of a complete assimilation, it is unlikely that the traditional norms lose their relevance entirely to the members of the minority group. Rather, they remain, to a certain extent, alive in the collective consciousness of the minority group. In this hypothesis anomie occurs as a result of an assimilation that remains underpinned by traditional norms’ and values’ relevance for the minority group. The minority, in this situation, is predisposed toward identity conflict rationalization, the group tends to compensate the anomie as it is involved in its assimilation by hyper-emphasizing the original values and norms that are still alive in the collective mind, idealizing and radicalizing them. The process is central to the formation of a radical and totalitarian ideology that may later serve as support for a more radical call for their comeback and legitimate holistic and totalitarian real-utopia.  

-         The non paradigmatic meaning of acculturation:

Anomie may occur within the dominant group. The dominant group, due to globalization, social change and demographic factors, increasingly adopts the norms and values that are traditionally foreign to its social life and social organization. As a result the norms that have been aimed to limit or to regulate goal achievement or to protect values within the dominant group become frail and lose their genuine nature. Minority group norms and values, but also norms and values that are relevant to non-western cultural groups may be involved in the adaptation of norms and values that are foreign to the dominant group.

 

Pluralism in Question?

The question which follows then is: Is such a process to be interpreted as the reversal of pluralism? Pro one may argue that pluralism holds for diversity and the coexistence of different interests. As interests are determined by or embedded in norms and values, pluralism covers normative and axiological diversity. Is it, then, that too much pluralism culminates with anomie in the majority group?

The answer is negative. It is simply because the premise is false in that it refers to a theoretical concept of pluralism that does not fit within the normative conception of pluralism which is the only one relevant for democracy.

In modern democracy the peaceful coexistence of different interests and axiological and normative diversity are achieved within democracy’s fundamentals and through the means of the law of majority.

It follows that pluralism (with regard to diversity of interests, norms and values) presupposes, according to the normative understanding of the term, democracy, that the affirmation of diversity in modern democracy, is always respectful of the law of the majority which is its expression and that the anomie that may occur in the majority group is not the result of “too much pluralism”, but rather the result of various processes (globalization, social and demographic change) that impact negatively the fundamentals of modern democracy and that find in the substitution of the theoretical conception of pluralism for the normative one their ideological support.

 

 

 Suppose that the two extreme cases of anomie (paradigmatic and not paradigmatic) operate simultaneously.

It follows logically that the norms that have been traditionally relevant to the minority group lose their former impact, and those that have been relevant for the majority are no longer capable of regulation either;

There is hardly need to tell that there is great need to test this hypothesis and its impact upon social control in modern democracy by means of empirical research.

 

 

Acculturation and Islam. Western styled leadership elites and the masses

The question is as following:

To which degree do the preceding observations apply to political leadership classes in Muslim culture? 

 

The problem consists of the following hypothesis:

-         Acculturation (but not necessarily complete assimilation) that consists of copying the western-styled life, on the one hand.

-          Increasing the discrepancy between the minority leadership elites who are copying the western norms and values and the majority of the population that continue to organize their life in accordance with the traditional values and norms, on the other hand.

-          The more obvious the anomic nature of the Western World’s norms, the better is the risk for conflict and war:

Non western leadership's reaction may consist of a forced copying (that becomes increasingly artificial) and the majority may react against the copy with radicalization and rejection of both the non western leadership elites and the western culture. The second hypothesis is that non-western leadership elites engage in a return to the original values that might culminate in the complete rejection of the western culture and in open conflict.

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The paradox is that the predisposition of non-western masses towards radicalization and reject of western values increases proportionally to the reduction in western value' and the western norms' power and efficiency.

 

 

Mimesis

The reject of Western values, within the Western World, by minority groups and the reject of the western styled elites of non-western cultural groups by the majority of the population must be thought as of mimesis;

The same observation applies to the two variants of double-faceted anomie:

-         Mimesis with regard to anomie affecting the traditional norms of the minority group during the paradigmatic acculturation in Western society (in particular when acculturation culminates in assimilation), and regarding anomie that affects the norms that are traditionally relevant for the non-western cultures during the process of copying the western norms and values as it is operated by the western value-orientated elites of non-western cultural groups and population.

-         Mimesis with regard to the anomic nature of the norms that have been traditionally relevant for the dominant groups in western society and regarding the anomic nature of the copied Western norms at the level of the non-western minority leadership elites.

 

The second hypothesis requires a series of comments:

 

Anomie within the Western Society’s dominant group

Due to social, economic and demographic change and globalization, the dominant group may adopt norms and values that are traditionally foreign to its social life. 

a)       Anomie as the result of the non-paradigmatic acculturation is the first variant of anomie rooted in social and economic change and globalization; the disruption of democracy’s fundamentals as it is involved in the clash of diversity (theoretical and normative conception of pluralism) is the paradigm.

b)      Anomie may develop through lack or weakness of social ascent opportunities. The dissolution of both the traditional proletarian class and the middle class into a common structure where both are confused and wherein social ascent (from lower to middle class) has lost much of its former relevance and attraction is central to this topic.

c)        Anomie may result from the dissolution of the traditional leadership elites.

 

Anomie within the western styled/ acculturated elites of the non-western world cultures

b) is irrelevant in that the dissolution of social class differences does not apply.

Anomie may occur within the western styled Muslim leadership elites as an indirect effect of anomie and weakness of norms and values in the western world. The more obvious the weakness and anomie in the western world is the greater the risk of anomie. The model (that is copied) loses its former attraction for the non-western leadership elites who no longer trust it. As a result, the copied values and norms become increasingly frail. The elites’ reaction may consist of disengagement with the consequences and effects that have been already outlined.

A more optimistic viewpoint consists of arguing that the return to the original cultural norms and values may be associated with a constructive renewal of the latter. The process may be considered as positively in that it tends to compensate or prevent the risk of anomie and to provide for an alternative model.

However, the most important problem which is involved here consists of the following question:

 

 

 

The Alternative: Theocratic Fascim

Is it possible to imagine the constitution of a new elite that, given the new axiological and normative framework of the elites’ constitution, must necessarily engage in the process of acculturation by which the former leaders adopt the norms and values that are shared by the majority of their population?

What is the nature of such a non-western model? Does such a model exist? And is the non-western, namely the Islamic world, capable of developing a model of society that can be considered as a real and viable alternative to the western model and that is capable of peaceful coexistence with the latter?

One may argue that such a model exists. Turkey is the best example, but it is the only one and is unique. More importantly, the model that is incarnated par excellence in Turkey is not an alternative to the western values and norms, and it is not rooted in the rejection of western culture either. Rather, it thrives on the successful association of western values (laity and democracy) with Muslim culture. Of course, recent events demonstrate that such an association does not always work without trouble. It remains that despite the comeback of religion observable at all levels of Turkey’s social and political life, it appears that the western styles and western-oriented value basis remain intact.

Only the future will provide the answer to the question of whether a mix up of tradition, religion and western values is capable to develop as a real alternative to Islamic totalitarian politics.

This observation being put beside – apart from the project that is aimed at the building of the totalitarian and fascist Islamic World Theocracy, there is no alternative to the Western value and norm system. And there should not be one either..

 

Fundamentalist and totalitarian therapy

The totalitarian and fascist building of the World Islam society is a “real utopia” in that its therapeutic effects provide support for and legitimacy to the totalitarian politics of religion

 

Who is in therapy?

-         The Majority of the populations of the Arab world. The Islamic theocratic fundamentalist therapy consists of overcoming and rationalizing the deception and disappointment within the Arab world about the failure of the Pan Arab Nationalist utopia.

-         The anomic Muslim and Arab youth minority in the western world. The therapy consists of legitimizing the rejection of Western norms and values, granting a world mission rooted in responsibility to the youth and reconstructing their personality by means of indoctrination and hate education. Recruitment for terrorism is the result.

-         The anomic leadership elites of the Islamic world. The therapy consists of offering an alternative way and of compensating the weakness of trust in western norms and values by promising the establishment of a new Islamic world elite that is no longer the slave and the victim of post-colonialism.

-          The leftist intelligentsia of the western world. The therapy consists of rationalizing the colonization and imperialism complex and in rebuilding the outrunning ideological conflict of the past through human rights. The motto: “The fight for social justice and equality you are fighting is always relevant. We are engaging in the same fight. Join us”.

 

Outlook

Suppose the therapy is successful. It is then that the western civilization is likely to regret the catastrophe of the last century. This is the opinion of one of the most prominent philosophers in Europe. He is French and he is Jewish and he is of German origin. Regret the monstrosity – there is hardly the need to point out the monstrosity that is involved in such regret.

 

 

Solution

On all of these accounts there is one solution, and it is the only one. The catastrophe problem solution consists in rebuilding the force of and the trust in western values and norms. The call for the return / renewal of western norms and values is the call for the counter-offensive that is aimed to put to death the nonsense of the reality show that stages apocalyptical politics of religion.

The theocratic fundamentalist therapy is motivated by hate; it is aimed at conflict and division. The final catastrophe is central to the fundamentalist “world project” in that the final catastrophe is staged as an apocalypse that will restore the collapsed harmonious and peaceful unity between human beings and divinity by prompting the victory of the divine essence’s sense of a world which has become senseless through a lack of the original unity. The staging of the Islamic apocalyptical “Weltbild”, however attractive it may be for the clients of the therapy, suffers an internal contradiction: As the apocalypse is central to therapy, the former is no longer an event, rather, it is a program, and this program is a political program.

Obviously, the topic of apocalypse is central to all sorts of real utopia. As far as therapy is involved as a precondition, the latter provides for the construction of the lost unity that is to be restored by the apocalyptical event. The therapeutic effect culminates in the complete assimilation, of the “Weltbild” at the level of the collective consciousness, wherein human being’s condition and essence, through lack of the original unity, is rooted in and denoted by violence and conflict only.

The Islamic fundamentalist therapy stages as reality show the catastrophe it promises to resolve in an apocalyptical manner. Apocalypse as a program -that’s the fundamental difference.  This reality show lives on the production and reproduction of mimetic violence and conflict only. Metaphorically, but truly:

This sorts of mimesis precludes the rationale of mimesis as it is documented in the Hebrew Scriptures: The twin tale’s morals consists in teaching us that Esau is not Jacob, not because the former is genuinely evil, but because he is not willing to engage in the mimetic process that would let him become Jacob.

The Islamic fundamentalist “Weltbild” has nothing better to offer than the mimesis that consists of copying and reproducing Esau ad infinitum.

In this account, the rebuilding of western norms and values holds for the reinforcement and reconstruction of the mimesis as it is defined by the Hebrew Scriptures. And this mimesis is the only mimesis that offers human being protection against the evil one that consists copying and multiplying Esau..

 

The more the western values are trusted and strong, the better is their predisposition towards adoption, and the better their impact upon catastrophe prevention around the world. That’s why the call for the comeback or the reinforcement of western culture as it lives in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Greek classics is foremost relevant to the western world. Weakness prompts the catastrophe.

 

The Challenge

The challenge we have to face and to take up consists of promoting a viable and universally valid dominant western value and norm system within an environment that, due to globalization and communication, tends to supplant prerogatives of value and norm setting by an equal distribution of value and norm setting competence. In such an environment, vertical and hierarchical power and competence are increasingly paralleled by horizontal and centrifugal power and competence structures. These horizontal and centrifugal structures tend to undermine the traditional “majority / dominant – minority / dominated social ontology. For argument’s sake, Globalization and communication favour the reciprocal and simultaneous transfer of knowledge, culture, habits, beliefs and even norms across the world. Also note, it favours the simultaneity of the reciprocity (the paradigmatic versus the non-paradigmatic scheme) of acculturation in the world.  In the global communication era all people are equal in that they are simultaneously and reciprocally performers and receivers of the communicative speech acts, all the more so as the communicative use of language supposes a reflexive intention. Given that the intention’s fulfilment consists of its recognition, it follows that all people who are involved in the communicative interaction are theoretically and by definition equally capable of recognizing the intention of the communicative act. Such equality tends to undermine traditional, historically grown, communication / intention recognition competence prerogatives and privileges anchored on and traditionally legitimated in the name of specific national, cultural or even ethnic identity.

The problem that is involved here is as follows:

The promotion of viable and universally valid dominant western values and norms depends increasingly upon the communicative rationale.

Discourse Ethics constitutes the only means to set up universally valid ethics’ norms. However, the limits of the paradigmatic use of Discourse Ethics require the shift from a rational to an axiological foundation of Discourse Ethics.

 

The Twin Tale: Jacob and Esau. Universal Ethics Against Totalitarianism

The observation that western culture is the only culture that, by promoting the mimetic lesson of the twin tale, offers world peace and protection of the peace in the world comes as support.

So as Esau is potentially capable to engage in the process of mimesis that would allow him to be Jacob, so Jacob is capable to take Esau as his most certain defender and soldier.

It is by virtue of this mimesis only that Esau, the hunter and warrior – the man of action, becomes capable to act in a meaningful and ethically desirable manner. Hunting and war become meaningful and ethically desirable when it is aimed at the protection and the defence of ethics and spirituality as they are according to the twin tale, incarnated in Jacob. The profane and material world that is represented by Esau is meaningful only if it exists as a function of Jacob (ethics and spirituality). 

But this assumes that there is a common place to meet for both, Esau and Jacob. To be a function of Jacob, Esau must be involved in Jacob’s spirituality and morals;. But he can be involved only if Jacob confronts his spirituality to the material and profane world. Without this confrontation, Esau is not able to accept the mimesis offer. And Jacob’s ethics do not reach practical relevance either.

Without this common place, without this reciprocal involvement, each remains the prisoner of dull and tasteless identity. As long as they do not meet and interact, their difference is underpinned by the identity which consists of the reciprocity of the other. The reciprocity of identification by means of the other (I am not Jacob – Esau, I am not Esau – Jacob) precludes the development of the relationship in that the former is determined by the maxim that each is always the other and as the other, the same.

If both are the same it is then that each of them is very likely to compare the way in which the other’s behaviour is considered and evaluated by society, of how it impacts society. This scheme precludes differences in consideration and evaluation and impact. In an environment where such a scheme is at work people can not be respectful of the other’s difference either. It is simply that the identity implies the reciprocity of total identification. What is involved is the process by which each of both projects his self-image on the other, so that the other is nothing but my projection. Complete assimilation and finally the annihilation of the other’s difference is the most important consequence in that the totalitarian nature of such a process is definitively demonstrated.

Esau is bitterly disappointed about Jacob, he is so angry about the way in which he is considered and treated that he projects to kill him. He can neither understand what happens to himself, nor can he accept that what happens to Jacob shall not apply to him. He feels mistreated. It is that his projection on his brother – his brother’s complete assimilation destroys the otherness of the other – his twin brother.

That’s why the mimesis as it is figured out in the twin tale is a unique masterpiece of ethics, both in regard to its anti-totalitarian morals and regarding totalitarianism prevention. This anti-totalitarian ethics not only provides an ethical lesson to humanity but it constitutes one of the most -perhaps the most- important aspects of Judaism [i]Hence the parentheses which is opened with the question: Why has Judaism never shaken hands with totalitarianism?, is definitively closed.

The common place – the point to meet and to interact consist of identity’s non-identity – the otherness of the other. Mimesis is the means to reach this common point: Esau’s potential capability of copying Jacob and becoming Jacob implies that he is potentially Jacob, although he remains Esau. Esau’s identity is fulfilled only by means and through the accomplishment of his non identity.

As long as hunting and warship is not a function of ethics and spirituality, the former is embedded in the totalitarian project that aims to destroy the latter. As long as ethics and spirituality miss the confrontation with reality, ethics has nothing better to offer than the ideological death threat to reality. Without ethics’ and spirituality’s confrontation with the material and profane, ethics’ ideological deviance remains the most certain supporter and “herbivore” accomplice of the “carnivore” hunter.

Western culture has experienced both totalitarian extremes – the one that is rooted in the ideological alienation of spirituality and of reason, and the other one that developed as repercussion of the inherent chaos and violence of nature.

But the Western culture as it lives from the Hebrew scriptures is the only culture that, by providing and promoting the mimesis - scheme as it is out-figured in the twin tale, is capable of totalitarianism prevention and counter fighting.

And it is the only one that is worthy of being defended with arms. And it is the only one wherein Esau’s hunt and war is a legitimated hunt and war against the violation of the twin tale morals (the unity in and through diversity) as it is involved in the totalitarian and criminal enterprise where the ideological rapist of reality and the naturalist rapist of spirituality act in complicity.

 

 

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[i]  For argument’s sake, this theme is central to other Torah sections. The children of Israel do not receive the commandments directly by G’d. Although Moses wants G’d to directly address his commandments to the children of Israel, the latter want Moses to address them. G’d agrees, rejecting Moses’ disappointment about this option. Moses is the medium between G’d and human being. The commandments are addressed in  a manner that is accessible for human being, not in divine language. If G’d would have listened to Moses and if G’d would have addressed his commandments in his proper divine language, not only would no human being have been able to get the message, but G’d by addressing the commandments in his proper divine language would have treated the human being as himself. Such a treatment, if it were applied, would be totalitarian in that G’d projects his divine identity to human being, in that the children of Israel are altogether little Gods. Analogically Yitro advises Moses to let the children of Israel occupy themselves with the administration of justice. Moses knows them better than anybody else and he knows them better than they do know themselves. But what he knows is in fact his knowledge about and his experience with the children of Israel, not the children of Isreal as they experience themselves. If the whole justice administration would come under the competence of Moses, justice could never be justice for and by the children of Israel, but it would always be the justice by Moses for little Moseses. It would be a totalitarian justice in that the children of Israel are not Moses.

The section that is dealing with Joseph and his brothers is another eloquent demonstration of Judaism’s anti-totalitarian nature. Why isn’t it Reuben who shall become the king of Israel but Judah who sold his brother Joseph and put him into slavery? Why shall it be that Judah who behaves in an immoral and highly utilitarian manner is designed to be king, and why not Reuben who prevents his brothers from killing Joseph? It is not only because Reuben has sinned; rather, it is that he is doing all his life repentance and because he lives genuinely in his own ego-centric dialogue with the divine, without any connection to what is happening to the world and the children of Isreal. He lives like a priest and his live is entirely devoted to religion. There is no linkage between his dialogue with G’d and the destiny of the children of Israel. In contrast Judah, who acts at first glance in a very egoist and immoral manner, demonstrates in fact that he cares about the children of Israel. He provides the ethical dimension to religion that makes the consistence of Judaism and precludes religious totalitarianism.