"What is God?" Part Two: Locusts, God, and the Fallacy of Individual Control

The planet is in the midst of the worst locust plague in 70 years.  Why locusts as the plague beginning Parashat Bo in Exodus?  What do they signify?  Here I continue the implications of the theology of God's name explained in the previous podcast.  Those implications are that in order to address the truth of interconnectedness of our system, we must act collectively, and not live with the illusion that individual actions can combat the illnesses in our system.  Individual actions, while admirable, do not cure cancer, solve poverty, heal the environment:  the locusts teach us that thinking an individual can stop a locus plague shares in the same illusion Pharaoh had, that an individual can control the system.  That is the opposite of recognizing God.  That's the theological message of the plagues, and of their implications.