Why The First Born Inherits Burden

追加: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]There's There's a difference between what's called an outer cycle and an inner cycle. An outer cycle is when you're in competition, like a war.

[00:00:07]That's an outer cycle. And then uh an inner cycle is a contained competition, usually made for selection, and not always, there's other reasons for it.

[00:00:16]And the contained competition is what you want. It's basically what I was talking about the role of Eve. It's something like a contained competition.

[00:00:24]Like for example, uh let's say in medieval, it's like a tournament. A tournament. That's a a contained competition for selection processes. And that's like a female It's the female role that does the tournament.

[00:00:36]>> Piaget, the developmental psychologist, identified that as a hallmark of appropriate developmental play.

[00:00:43]And so that's the idea that you unite your striving towards a common direction. That's what a game is.

[00:00:50]And then you compete for the purposes of selection. Well, the selection is the victory in the game, but it's also the tuning and adjusting of yourself as an ever greater player both at the skill level, which would depend be dependent on the particular sport, but also as a team player as such, because you also need to facilitate the development of your team, and you have to learn to abide by the rules that constitute the fair structure of the tournament.

[00:01:18]Yeah, yeah, it's a yeah, exactly. It's It's a contained >> And so that's not a zero-sum >> Yeah, no, it's not zero-sum because it's not a real war.

[00:01:26]You're not trying to obliterate your adversary. You're You're in a war, but part of a of a system. It It It's It's the like I said, the feedback mechanism for a system is called an inner cycle.

[00:01:39]And when you when you lose that, then you fall into an outer cycle, which is war.

[00:01:44]Now you're in constant state of war and competition. When you lose that, you fall out into an outer cycle. So, that means that if you don't conduct yourself in some fundamental sense according to the rules of advanced development fostering play, that the alternative to that is that outer cycle of real conflict in the world, where negotiations and unity break down, and you're forced into a state of tyranny or slavery or war.

[00:02:14]That's the alternatives.

[00:02:16]Yeah, and you and you don't have an uh arbiter when you're in that level. When when you're in the other level, you have a Is that how you say in English, an arbiter? Yep. Uh Yeah, or a referee.

[00:02:26]Arbiter is fine.

[00:02:27]>> referee. Yeah, okay. You don't have that in the war domain, so it might be a never-ending conflict. Uh th- this is actually one of the If you are familiar with the story of uh Jacob and Esau, we have that in that story. It's pretty clear. Um It starts with the mother, which is uh Rebecca. She She says that inside her womb, they're fighting.

[00:02:52]That that that She has twins, right, inside her womb. They're fighting inside her womb.

[00:02:57]So, this represents what I was This represents the inner inner war, the inner cycle, that's mediated by her inside her womb. So, she She has like the the wisdom to mediate that, and so she decides who is um who is worthy to be the the inheritor of the um of the father. You see what I mean? So, there's like an inner conflict inside the womb, and she decides that he She does some some little tricks there, some some some a little bit of deception there, but she decides who who ends up on top. And the reason she does that is if she didn't decide it correctly, there would have been [snorts] an outer war.

[00:03:39]Probably that would have lasted forever between the two um between Esau and uh Jacob. But then, so basically, what she did avoided uh a never-ending conflict between the two brothers.

[00:03:51]And the reason is uh Well, I don't necessarily want to get in too much detail, but the reason is something like um Esau represents the um the firstborn in general in the Bible uh represents the idea that you have to solve the problem now.

[00:04:10]That's the firstborn cuz that's his job.

[00:04:12]Cuz the firstborn inherits the problems.

[00:04:14]He he he inherits the the wealth, but he also inherits the problems. And he he he inherits the times that he's in. So, if you're living in a rotten time and you're the firstborn, it's actually not a good thing. You might think it's always better to be the firstborn, right? But no, if you're born in a state of inversion and clown world state, you know, like like right now, if you're born in a state of corruption, then you don't want to be the you don't want to be the firstborn because you're you're you're going to have to deal with that problem right now. And the secondborn or after, the youngest or whatever, represents a time span that will happen before it becomes your problem. So, in a way, when you're in a corrupt world, it's better to be the secondborn. And a lot of stories in the Bible relate to that. So, Cain and Abel is the same thing.

[00:05:01]So, in in the story of Cain and Abel, a um the sin the fall just happened. So, everything's the earth is cursed.

[00:05:08]And a um Cain is the firstborn, so he has to work the earth. That's his job.

[00:05:13]He inherits this world. This is This is a a way to describe it. This world. And he So, he's in a corrupt world where the earth is cursed. So, it might seem like a great thing that he's the firstborn and he inherits the land, but it's not cuz it's cursed. Okay? So, he's in a bad position, really. So, what happens is Abel, he what he does is basically nothing. He just he doesn't advance his knowledge. He just preserves the traditional knowledge. So, >> [snorts] >> in a way, Cain represents the scientist in a way and Abel represents the the priest or the the traditional uh So, [snorts] let's say for example, in Christianity, the Abel would be something like the continuation of the tradition of Christianity, while Cain would be the one who's got to solve the problems as they are right now.

[00:06:04]And then, when there's a fall, a fall away from understanding what tradition means and how how it how it applies to reality, then Cain is in trouble because he has to solve still solve the problems of the earth. So, like a scientist, he has to see what's in the earth, see what's the facts that are before him, and he has to solve them.

[00:06:22]But, he doesn't have the higher knowledge to solve it correctly so that it doesn't destroy him. Right. So, sometimes sometimes the firstborn, who's the cardinal inheritor of the tradition, is cursed because the tradition itself is cursed, and the secondborn, and often lesser, so to speak, son is the preferable alternative. And that pattern is repeated very >> Yes, because he has time. Right.

[00:06:48]Yes, because the secondborn has the time to like ruminate on the problems. He doesn't have to solve them now. He just take his sweet time. And when he solves it, then he acts. This is what Jacob and Esau represent, too. Uh it's a very interesting story, by the way.

[00:07:03]Esau he at first he thinks he's angry when he gets his inheritance stolen or whatever, but then later, when he encounters Jacob, he's not even angry.

[00:07:13]And this is a weird little event that happens in the story. It's like, why isn't he angry? Like, Jacob is afraid he's going to be killed by his brother, but then he meets his brother, and he doesn't really care.

[00:07:22]And the reason is because he he gets he gets the land right away, and that's what he wants. So, he get it's illustrated by It says he has 400 men with him.

[00:07:35]Okay, the 400 men represent the land, let's say, the potential of the land. He gets them right away. And Jacob, he doesn't get 400 men that follow him. He gets 400 years of exile. Okay?

[00:07:48]So, the 400 years of exile is the time needed for the rumination to to solve the problem correctly and slowly and patiently instead of rushing into it, instead of It's it's it's a solution to not eating the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You need to wait for the solution and then you can do something. So, in certain cases, it's better to be the second born. You can wait.

[00:08:11]Take your sweet time. You don't have the responsibility of solving the problems of the land.

[00:08:15]And the other guys has a harder job.

[00:08:17]>> Well, right. And there's Well, there's an injunction there to the kind of patience that also enables you to allow the solution to present itself instead of assuming that you're the man to take on that particular dragon right here and now in the way that you think is fit.

[00:08:31]Yes. And that that's the burden of the firstborn. That's the burden of the firstborn. He has to do it now. It's his job.

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