World Affairs Monthly

January 2012

The fantastic thing about the global publishing business is the power of creativity, the power of originality.... When you got this power, you will find everyone copying you, plagiarizing you.... This is what happens to WAM, it is perhaps the most plagiarized publication in the history of the world.... Please subscribe....

“ON THINKING OF GOD AS SERENDIPITOUS CREATIVITY”:

AN INTERVIEW WITH GORDON D. KAUFMAN

It was an amazing as well as interesting series of telephone interviews WAM had with Gordon D. Kaufman about one year ago. He had told me that he was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease but I was nonetheless able to talk to him, he was lucid. He told me, “God is serendipitous creativity.” I knew exactly what he was talking about, I had been thinking the same thing myself for a number of years. Then I find out, through a mutual acquaintance, that there is someone else, a Harvard theologian, with the same idea. Astonishing and very exciting. Very recently these words were published in WAM:

A bit earlier these words were published in WAM:

There is no question that this man, Gordon D. Kaufman, is one of the most brilliant men I ever came to be acquainted with. He published two books on his new “theology”

and they are really amazing documents and WAM highly recommends them. Kaufman in these two small books offers a full explication of his thesis that God is serendipitous creativity. You see how this [theological] theory of his fits in with the WAM science and the WAM theory of history? It is a perfect corroboration of the WAM science and of course I was thinking the same way myself, for a number of years. We do not know who God is and anyone who tells you they know who God is is lying. They do not know anything. One thing is certain: the anthropomorphism of God is just ridiculous and perhaps even insane but of course it makes eminent sense: a lot of people make a lot of money selling this God. It is a lucrative business and has been for many many centuries, if not thousands of years. You must consult the two small books by Kaufman: In the Beginning … Creativity (Fortress Press, Minnesota) and Jesus and Creativity (Fortress Press, Minnesota). You may not like his arguments, you may be repulsed and shocked, but he is correct in the foundation of his thesis. I spent a few hours on the telephone with Kaufman, explaining why I had the same impressions of this phenomenon I call the “religious instinct.”

We are a powerful animal, very very powerful. We direct ourselves in the world, in the biosphere. We are in control. We analyze, we study, we create science and knowledge and technology, and we will in time understand the origin of the “force of life” or whatever you want to call this. This “force of life” is God, it is creativity, it is the creativity in the human brain. It is science and the technology which arises from science and knowledge.

The predator human animal is the supreme predator on Earth. No one can challenge us. No one will likely challenge us. Why this is so I do not know. All I know is that the cost of transmitting information from one human brain to another is falling dramatically and has been falling dramatically over the centuries. This is a WAM theory, the core of the WAM science, and this is why the human animal is so powerful and so impressive. Kaufman agreed with me. It is a shame he died of Azheimer's. It is perhaps just as well, because he was vilified for this new conception of God. He was suffering from rejection. He was bitter. I assured him this was not justified, that he would in time be proven correct. He laughed when I said this. He scoffed, he was not impressed with people, they are cruel and ignorant and of course he is right.

There is nothing possible without destruction, without “creative destruction.” This was the economist Joseph Schumpeter's thesis and I have always found it very persuasive. It is an idea and thesis which I use in the WAM science. I recently noticed that a Dutch economist named Maarten van Mourik discussed this idea and he also discussed the American conspiracy to destroy the euro and the euro zone. As the WAM audience knows, this attempt to destroy the euro has its origins in WAM theory. Without the April 2010 WAM Feature, there would be no attempt to destroy the euro zone. Competition is almost always unwanted. Here is Maarten van Mourik:

We know what to do. We know we must direct this and in some ways the direction is just haphazard because the real power is serendipity and creativity. We know where to go but we do not know where we will end up. We merely have to wait for the few creative individuals to show us the way, to give us the science and technology. This is what has happened in history and it is no doubt what will guide us in the future. There is nothing to worry about, though the bottleneck will certainly be unpleasant.... continue

What is never examined and discussed in news publications of the affluent West? What subjects are never broached?

The answer is uncomfortable, as most people recognize. The western media distort the realities of the world, the intricacies of world affairs, and present an image of events which is palatable and acceptable, and which conforms to their image of the world.Their beliefs and perspectives must be defended, and it is precisely this act of self-defense, which is no doubt an agonizing and desperate one, that undermines education and creates distortion....continue

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