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This hints at the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction, which dominated post-WWII relations between great powers (namely, the United States and the Soviet Union). The concept states that any escalated conflict between two nuclear-armed powers would result in the complete destruction of both involved states.

Although Einstein feared the proliferation of nuclear arms, states' understanding of Mutual Assured Destruction has actually been a peace-keeping force. Specifically, it prevented the escalation of the Cold War into a full-scale great power violent conflict. More generally, it has precluded any nuclear warfare, and has prevented war directly between great powers.

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The Presidential position in the U.S. was, in fact, designed to limit the head executive’s powers. The writers of the U.S. constitution took great care to ensure checks and balances were placed upon the head executive, and also that the head executive was held responsible by his electorate.

Read what The Federalist Papers have to say to this end, specifically in contrast to the contemporary king of Great Britain:

The President of the United States would be an officer elected by the people for four years; the king of Great Britain is a perpetual and hereditary prince. The one would be amenable to personal punishment and disgrace; the person of the other is sacred and inviolable. The one would have a qualified negative upon the acts of the legislative body; the other has an absolute negative.

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Although Einstein was residing in the U.S. while writing this letter, he never felt any particular allegiance to the U.S. (or any other country). Thus, his decision to write this letter to the U.S. administration was informed by multiple factors, nationalism not included.

First, Einstein held democracy as a virtue, and considered the United States a beacon of this virtue.

Further, the United States had by far the largest economy in the world in 1939. This meant that it had the most capability to fund the development of such a weapon as proposed in this letter.

These two factors combined to bring Einstein to the conclusion that the U.S. was among both the most likely and the most capable states to balance itself against and prevail over Germany in the upcoming war.

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Jay frequently likens himself to Christ. It is important to understand, though, that Jay is a Five Percenter and doesn’t recognize Jesus as God. Still, he certainly values and hopes to further spread Christ’s peaceful message

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When you take in Jay’s music, it’s nourishing – like food. Notice how Jay demonstrates exactly what he says here: he flips the phrase “herbs and spices” into “verbs and spices”, thus showing the transformation between “words” (“verbs”) and “edibles” (“spices”)

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Jay samples an earlier line from “Exhibit A”

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Jay Elec recycles a line from Kool G. Rap to emphasize how the fathers of confusion have some spiritually defeated

Jay also referenced “the synangogues of Satan” on “better in tune w the infinite”

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Jay Electronica is negating Cain’s response to God upon killing his brother: we are, in fact, our brothers' keeper.

This is right in line with the Five Percenter doctrine that it is the responsibility of those who are enlightened to teach the truth (about 5 percent of the world fills this responsibility, according to their tenets).

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Ibiza (pronounced here ‘Ibetha’1) is a popular tourist destination known for heavy beach partying off the coast of Spain. For a while, Jay admitted, he lost focus and began relying on drugs and alcohol for pleasure. Nas told him he needed to get back to that real rap!

1The pronunciation “Ibetha” imitates a typical Spaniard’s lisp. It was once thought that this feature of the Spanish accent cold be traced back to a Spanish king that spoke with a lisp, This is now, however, considered a myth for lack of evidence.

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According to the 5 Percent Nation, of which Jay Electronica is a member, the asiatic black people (the non-whites) were the original human beings on earth, deeming them the fathers and mothers of civilization. Jay has specifically mentioned how black people introduced Jews to Judaism.

Despite this, black people have a long and harsh history of being mistreated world-wide, of which slavery is just a small part. The “seed of Yakub” refers to white people: Yakub is, according to 5 Percenter doctrine, the creator of the “devil race” of white people.

Note that Jay used a similar construct to this line in “Suckas”, which in turn is a homage to a classic Biggie line.

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