Ben Adam visits New York

Ben Adam visits New York Overviewing the world environment- If 400 years ago some location could be discovered by sophisticated Europeans intent upon winning the world; Where would that place of most perfect almost untouched environment be found? New York 400 years ago and the word- ‘Paradise’ describing waters, fish, bird life, wild life, interesting native inhabitants, healthy productive meadows, forests and lying beyond all the resources which could be tapped to create a World Dominating Empire… Yes I genuinely as a geographer struggle to think of any place better for Adam to live. So let us give our hypothetical Adam- or Son of Adam a life span of five or six hundred years- not unheard of in ancient middle eastern records alongside the bible… And see what happens to the European New World location New York. What human activities will our King of New York- Ben Adam get up to? And yes the full range of human activities good bad and very ugly have been at various times out lived by New Yorkers. Will the New York built be sustainable? Will the resources be used in wise and considered ways? Will our Ben Adam be happy in this favored location? Look the answers to these questions I have discovered in reading a wide range of deservedly famous authors beginning with mocking pretense history of the Dutch aristocracy of New York and then going on from there. In other words every one of the authors is constrained in their story telling not to tell the very worst by NY style but hinting… And in Ben Adam’s time –his 400 years spent in New York –There every day through an eventful and utterly fascinating progression of developing world empire- What failures would potentially destroy the city and empire? And what would in that destruction be the lesson learned by the wise for life elsewhere across the entire planet? So currently I am reading ‘Too Big to Fail’ by an extremely well informed journalist writing very good New York history. And while maybe we could excuse the winning mad- bully boy Investment Bank CEO’s and their skilled executives for not understanding quite what they were doing in the pursuit of worldwide wealth for themselves and the city there is still the crazy decisions made for the development of New York and surrounding USA lands and buildings which could be assessed by them rationally in terms of risk or certainty of failure. A Greenspan was an expert in this precise study. And the basic city narrative being out worked in the critical penultimate 1820s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s decades was the building of the Erie Canal and a replacement of St Lawrence for first Beaver pelts but then other goods to flow in and out of New York or to be manufactured by the pouring in European populations – A Marxist style Economic change and what did the riches man do- Ben Adam with his success? Well at one time owning three percent of Manhattan and allowing and provided for the building of the most unlivable housing conditions killing more people more quickly than anywhere else- In Manhattan leading to the almost complete destruction of the city as part of the American Civil War. But Yes the late Summer Autumn 2008 financial events were linked to exactly this economic situation, the speculation and selling of unsustainable housing to people in New York, USA, and the world who could never afford it. Ben Adam attempting to profit from the over leveraged debt/death/mortgages of his human companions, safe in high towers of Worship of Money- World Empire- clearly loosing from what we can read. Losing the plot: Ignoring our good Torah! Can we conclude a big picture here? Is the writing on the wall? Well to finish I will let Ben Adam speak to us; ‘Don’t judge for your judging with that- Judging judgment- Judged! And standard-Your standard- standardized.’ Ben Adam the eternal Jew Has visited New York! And is saying we if we Judging- Know what will happen to NYC! Dear Reader –You Will Copy and Send my letter to New Yorkers knowing from your own judgments… And if you fail to warn- Then the curse of Ezekiel will be that you in failing to warn will be held responsible for those millions who die!