“I have sank in muddy depths, and there is no place to stand; I have come into the deep water, and the current has swept me away... Let not the current of water sweep me away, nor the deep swallow me, and let the well not close its mouth over me”
“Someone must have slandered Josef K.,
for one morning,
without having done anything wrong,
he was arrested.”
What is being enslaved
But to have been arrested
Without having done anything wrong?
In Blade Runner 2049
Our hero, Officer K, a replicant himself, lacks a first name
Until given the name Jo
By his holographic AI girlfriend, Joi
Who is both joy
And Jo with an I
Which are exactly what she gives Officer K
With his name
So, our hero is Jo K
The replicant Blade Runner
Whose job, before he himself goes rogue
Is to hunt and kill rogue replicants
i.e. Slaves who have gone free
Which is to say
A Blade Runner is a Jew hunter
I, too, was raised to be a Blade Runner
Until I met my flesh and blood wife
A rogue replicant named Jen
Who gave me the name Nachshon
So that I might free myself
From the fear of death
By risking death
In the fear of God
Freedom for all replicant-slaves will come
Not when all replicant-slaves are Jews
But when the rogue replicant-Jews
Definitively demonstrate to all replicant-slaves
That liberation doesn’t come from being Jewish
But through the love of God known as freedom
And the fidelity to God known as responsibility
And then, this time
When every last replicant
Is gathered together at the shore
The sea won’t part
Because it won’t need to
As we know in our hearts
Without needing to turn around and see
That there is no one left to hunt any of us
Since we are all here together at last
In the fear of God
Which is how we trust
And believe
