Our minds want to serve us. But the problem is that they don’t always do such a good job. This is because of a mismatch between contemporary society and our brains, which evolved for the wild. In Kafka’s Zürau Aphorisms, he wrote that all thinking is just consolation, and therefore it is never true consolation. Thinking does not lead us to the Infinite. It tends to have a quicksand effect. To grasp monotheism in the ancient world, one needed to think differently. One needed to stop thinking such that God could enter. One needed to become stupid. Or as Walter Benjamin indicated, hope is for the fools.

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