Ah, yes, when we look back at the pandemic of 2019-2020, with a pandemic claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, a doctor silenced by the Chinese state who tried to warn people and then died of the disease, the overwhelmed Italian hospitals, the US government stealing supplies from other countries by threat of military force and US states flying their own planes in secret to avoid the federal government, the mass graves in Central Park, St. Peter's Square empty on Easter but the megachurches full, the fights over toilet paper, and everything else... the thing that will be remembered as "the lowest point of our humanity" is going to be... some people criticizing a video chat app.
Also, yes, Pharaoh represents the ego and the struggle in Exodus is really an allegory for how we should all just get along. That's absolutely what the story means. When we tell the story of how our ancestors were slaves in Egypt, it's not at all about oppression and violence, it's about how our ancestors, ordered to make bricks without straw, thought too much of themselves and criticized things that, you know, maybe weren't great but definitely shouldn't have been criticized.
Also, yes, Pharaoh represents the ego and the struggle in Exodus is really an allegory for how we should all just get along. That's absolutely what the story means. When we tell the story of how our ancestors were slaves in Egypt, it's not at all about oppression and violence, it's about how our ancestors, ordered to make bricks without straw, thought too much of themselves and criticized things that, you know, maybe weren't great but definitely shouldn't have been criticized.