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To simplify, at the heart of Neoplatonism is a belief in the natural order, and that conformity with that order produces emergent justice and fairness. The Good produces only good.
At the heart of the Kabbalah is the mystery of the withdrawal of the supposedly Infinite and the breakage of the supposedly perfect. At it's most esoteric, it can be used to justify all manner of antinomianism and a great mixture of the holy with the profane.
Ari Juels follows in the footsteps of his namesake, the Ari, Rabbi Isaac Luria. He makes mocking references to Plato, referencing an example in his own work of the "misuse" of wisdom and secret knowledge.
This explains the long lasting enmity between Vitalik and the ChainLink crew. Vitalik was initiated by Glen Weyl in a Platonic Mystery School that sees itself as shepherding in a new age in Western society. Vitalik in his idealism was somewhat easy to convert. Kleros is their chosen oracle solution.
But of course there are bigger forces at play behind the scenes that the actors are unaware of, forces even the Bogdanovs fear to speak of.