The equivalence of the Oral Law to the Written Law

The political/economic implications of ecological degradation reverses the causation of the resource curse: the exploitation of extractive resources not only engenders the rise of strongman rulers it is also a measure of the power and the consequences of being under the administration of those rulers. The chief legacy of Soviet rule when the Soviet Union collapsed was the ecological disaster it had left behind. 

The conjecture is: the more severe the strongman rule, the more extreme the resultant ecological degradation. If the ancient Israelites degraded their ecological homeland, it could be a measure of the weakness of their social systems to manage their commonwealth. The leadership of the ancient Israelites could well have been making decisions that favored their grip on power, and they were using the laws of God to harden that grip on that power. 

When God says to the Children of Israel that He brought them out of the land of Egypt's servitude with a firm grip, with a chozeq yad, likely He was speaking to the leadership of that people. It could well be that by today we are preserving the rabbinic laws in a vain attempt to preserve the illegitimate purchase on power those rabbis had tried to promulgate, to the lasting distress of their people. 

The heavy ideological cast of the proponents of the Oral Law in their unrelenting insistence on the equivalence of the Oral Law to the Written Law is a telling indicator that what's going on underneath is propaganda designed to promote the legitimation of power of rulers who have scant authentic claim on that power. The Written Law limits the power of the cabal who would usurp the people's as well as God's power. In the face of the decline of the people, that cabal took charge and, to preserve the cabal's power, instituted what we now have received as the Oral Law. 

The collapse of the ancient world's rule of God has led to the three Man-made daughter religions that attempt to reconfigure the distribution of power, each of them, into a clergy that will ultimately fail to serve the interests of the people.