Haerenga Tuarima - Part 5 - Algorithms, Alignment and Anti-Imperial Acts

the lord came down to see the city and the tower which mortals had built and the lord said look they are one people and they have one language and this is only the beginning of what they will do nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them come let us go down and confuse their language there so that they will not understand one another's speech

In te reo Māori, tīmatā nei te whiti tua rima.

Nā, ka heke ihoa ihoa kia kite i te pā me te pau rewa i hanga nei i ngā tama a te tangata.

A ka mea ihoa, nā nā, kotahi tonu te iwi nei, kotahi anō hoki tō rātou reo.

A ka tīmatā nei tēnei mahi e rātou.

I love how in Te Paepera they're all mates, eh? Yeah, the hoa is very interesting to me.

I don't imagine, well, I don't know, shared language, would that make you friendly?

You know, because in verse three you've got, and down here you've got again,

Yes, a choice was made about the way that they relate to each other.

But at the same time, it sticks out to me way more that it's like, it's like for some reason that jumps out at me way more as they are one group and they have one language it's almost like they think the same

yeah

they are united around a particular way of doing and being things and it jumps out at me more than when it says in english They are one people and they all have one language.

In the Reo, for some reason, I read more of a sense of a united cause than I do one people in one language.

They've emphasized the oneness with the tonu.

Kotahi tonu.

There was still one and very one.

That doesn't make a lot of sense in English.

One as.

Super one.

As one.

Yes.

Anyway, so God comes down, and then they look and see the tower, and there are these people who are united around one language, and they are one people.

So they're somehow united around a mission, a cause, a purpose, an activity.

They're building together.

And God says, man, if they keep doing this this way, anything they set their mind to, they will do.