Thank you for the kinds words and sentiments, Khadijah. Good friends are too few and too far between to jettison for something as trivial and inconsequential to the quality of our lives as political or blood feuds...
Unfortunately, the ignorance via oppression will likely keep the victimhood alive and growing in Gaza. There's too much money flowing in the region, that it becomes too overwhelming for the citizenry to change. It's their shackles and chains, so to speak. It's very difficult to rescue them when even our President succumbs to their ruling terrorist leaders.
Thanks for your comment, H. Yes, industrial-strength victimhood is a potent money maker -- not unlike the industrial-strength victimhood mentality inflicted on American Blacks for more than three generations. For Palestinians and American Blacks alike, the industrialized victimhood afflicted upon them by those who are above the consequences of their own actions is a crime against humanity.
You spoke of how many Jewish people are in Israel itself. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has increased the number of Jewish people in Israel as well. It is another world event that has cause more of God's chosen to be brought back to the Holy Land.
It is hard to imagine. As a Christian I believe in the prophecy in the Bible. His people were scattered all over the world. They will be brought back to the Holy Land as well. Many stories out there about why things are happening and who is doing it. The truth is God's plan is being fulfilled. Many levels to look at things in the world. I am signed up to a newsletter from International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. They have been actively engaged in the process of getting Jews out of the warzone in Ukraine and to Israel.
Seems to me that the anti-colonialism theory cited by H. Lindsay describes the difference between societies predicated on tribalism and societies predicated on the rule of law. The more tribalized we become, the less rule of law we can expect in our lives. Perhaps one reason for the accelerating institutional decay all around us these days.
Social justice, racial justice, trans-justice, climate justice, or any other form of justice that requires a modifier is simply good old fashioned mob justice at digital scale.
Isn't killing your oppressor the terminal expression of victimhood mentality in extremis? And aren't all nation states obligated to defend themselves against such nihilism in the name of justice?
That Marcuse and Davis and other leftists of the 60s are associated with the emergence of the PLO is not terribly surprising. The PLO was a vintage secular liberation movement. Today's counterparts, however, are theocratically constituted -- and far more dangerous.
Sorry: I did read McLuhan's Mechanical Bride many years ago. He was a 60's media personality in much same NYC manner and sensibility as Leonard Bernstein, Bella Abzug, and Woody Allen. As media ecologists go, Neal Postman was, by far, the most readable and accessible.
Part of the tyranny of how runaway digital scale began to institutionalize virtually every function of our lives in the early 21st century. The confluence of runaway digital scale and the rise of state-sponsored default addiction is what emerged a few years later as The Rise of Huxwell...
beautifully written. I admire the fact that you can be a Zionist and still have beloved anti-Zionist friends. Sorry about the loss of your friend.
Thank you for the kinds words and sentiments, Khadijah. Good friends are too few and too far between to jettison for something as trivial and inconsequential to the quality of our lives as political or blood feuds...
Unfortunately, the ignorance via oppression will likely keep the victimhood alive and growing in Gaza. There's too much money flowing in the region, that it becomes too overwhelming for the citizenry to change. It's their shackles and chains, so to speak. It's very difficult to rescue them when even our President succumbs to their ruling terrorist leaders.
Thanks for your comment, H. Yes, industrial-strength victimhood is a potent money maker -- not unlike the industrial-strength victimhood mentality inflicted on American Blacks for more than three generations. For Palestinians and American Blacks alike, the industrialized victimhood afflicted upon them by those who are above the consequences of their own actions is a crime against humanity.
Brilliant piece, thank you.
Thank you, Jenny.
Perfect, Jeff.
Absolutely fucking perfect.
ZL
Thanks much, Zephareth. Glad you think so.
You spoke of how many Jewish people are in Israel itself. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has increased the number of Jewish people in Israel as well. It is another world event that has cause more of God's chosen to be brought back to the Holy Land.
Thanks for commenting, John. Hard to imagine how or why any Jews survived the SS during WW2.
It is hard to imagine. As a Christian I believe in the prophecy in the Bible. His people were scattered all over the world. They will be brought back to the Holy Land as well. Many stories out there about why things are happening and who is doing it. The truth is God's plan is being fulfilled. Many levels to look at things in the world. I am signed up to a newsletter from International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. They have been actively engaged in the process of getting Jews out of the warzone in Ukraine and to Israel.
Seems to me that the anti-colonialism theory cited by H. Lindsay describes the difference between societies predicated on tribalism and societies predicated on the rule of law. The more tribalized we become, the less rule of law we can expect in our lives. Perhaps one reason for the accelerating institutional decay all around us these days.
Social justice, racial justice, trans-justice, climate justice, or any other form of justice that requires a modifier is simply good old fashioned mob justice at digital scale.
Isn't killing your oppressor the terminal expression of victimhood mentality in extremis? And aren't all nation states obligated to defend themselves against such nihilism in the name of justice?
That Marcuse and Davis and other leftists of the 60s are associated with the emergence of the PLO is not terribly surprising. The PLO was a vintage secular liberation movement. Today's counterparts, however, are theocratically constituted -- and far more dangerous.
While I admire and applaud those who work hard to draw attention to injustice and corruption, the media ecologist part of me is concerned that we may have passed a media saturation threshold whereby little things like facts no longer matter much beyond our ability to confirm them with our own eyes and ears -- as manifest in the parochial and local issues of faith, family, and community. Please check out the Calls to Action essay (https://qolrm.substack.com/p/intro-to-calls-to-action?r=7hc45&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) on my Quality of Life Resistance Movement substack. I offer them as the antidote to The Rise of Huxwell (https://qolrm.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-huxwell?r=7hc45&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web).
Sorry: I did read McLuhan's Mechanical Bride many years ago. He was a 60's media personality in much same NYC manner and sensibility as Leonard Bernstein, Bella Abzug, and Woody Allen. As media ecologists go, Neal Postman was, by far, the most readable and accessible.
Part of the tyranny of how runaway digital scale began to institutionalize virtually every function of our lives in the early 21st century. The confluence of runaway digital scale and the rise of state-sponsored default addiction is what emerged a few years later as The Rise of Huxwell...
Thanks for your comment, Jb. Not sure I understand. Would you clarify?