Xenophobic strangers

Anarchy has become 

"a synonym for mayhem, chaos, and riotous behavior because many imagine that the absence of authority is equally the absence of order." (A Paradise Built In Hell, Rebecca Solnit, 2009; page 90) 

Scripture moved the locus of authority to a divine Other Who enters into covenant with an entire people. After God abdicated the treaty the rabbinic regime moved that higher authority to the imperial power or the state power of the diasporic, host government. In the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel, the gedoylim defined the government of the state as a surrogate for the host diaspora government, thereby denying the conundrum of whether or not God's treaty obligations with the people had been resumed. 

The central question the Jewish people must answer today is how to manage the problem of national authority. The disaster of the Genocide is offering a window during which time the Jewish people can arrange for an effective and radically new answer to that age-old question. We have another few generations to do our work and then the historical window will close and another crisis will have gone to waste. 

The mainstream religions are there not to impose authority over anarchy but rather to impose it over unruly mortal authority that, in the absence of a higher power, does not respect limits and exploits the fertile core, which will result in a resource curse on the general population. The problem of anarchy is not general lack of authority, the problem of anarchy is civil war where no central power holds sway over a variety of smaller powers. 

It was 

"the English Civil Wars that prompted the timid authoritarian Thomas Hobbes to imagine that the only alternative to chaos was a strong central authority. ... 'And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' It was a fiction to which he brought to bear another fiction, that of the social contract by which men agree to submit to rules and a presiding authority, surrendering their right to ravage each other for the sake of their own safety. The contract was not a bond of affection or identification, not a culture or religion binding together a civilization, only a convenience. Men in his view, as in that of many other European writers of the period, are stark, blank, mechanical creatures, windup soldiers social only by strategy and not by nature." (A Paradise Built In Hell, Rebecca Solnit, 2009; page 91) 

This Conservative view places as much emphasis as it does on the honoring of contracts because that contractual, strategic view of social cohesion is the only thing that binds people into a larger collective. A civilization of xenophobic strangers is what that view produces, alas.