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Not Someone's Scale Model

 

Wherever you go, there you are.

(Confucius)

 

One thing that political ideologies seem to have in common is that they put politicians and ideologues as the most important people in the World. It’s never about seeing everybody’s role in Civil Society as equally important, like, the real solution being mostly about people with the X profession being a better X, not only technically but specially ethically. No. They don’t want it, because it would not make us all feel as if politicians and ideologues hold the magical power in their hand. They have to make us believe that there is A simple political direction that if we follow, will solve all our problems.

To make us believe in that simple political direction, they obviously have to simplify everything, make us believe That everything that happens in the World Fits in some simple political equation.

You take what’s happening in the Middle East. We need some History to understand things. The fact is that the end of the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^{th w}as the time when the Big Empires ended. The British Empire, the Austro Hungarian, the Ottoman. There was a lot of fight in the World – good or bad that’s how it was – and a lot of Nations got their independence.

In the middle of that, a small Nation was born in the Middle East. The Jewish state, Israel. Maybe very few years later than when others got their independence, but what is that compared to the centuries of the Empires? Jews were expelled from other countries in Europe and the Middle East, and an equivalent number of Arab Muslins left or were expelled from that area as the Jews got their tiny peace of a region in which they were always present. Those are the kind of things that happened with the end of the Empires, and the Middle East remains 99 percent Arab in area. Check it.

But the ideologues need to fit all that in their equation. The Jewish State can’t be a Nation that just got their independence painfully like the others, because it represents something they don’t want to see in their pictures. Leftist ideologues can’t accept the prosper as the right side in a story.

And somehow it is indeed about pictures, pictures of poor people. Nations like some Muslin nations in the Middle East, where the bosses are extremely rich and the peasants poor and extremely unhappy, still give us good pictures of poor people, so we will defend those Nations.

As for poor people in the Democratic countries, who are in trouble but still with better chances than the ones of the non-Democratic country. Well, the ideologues divide these people into good poor people, that vote with them, snd stupid poor people, who vote contrary. So, poor people are good for pictures and maybe social poems, but they really listen and talk to people who vote with them, poor or not.

But when it comes to a country as far as Israel, they can say everybody is bad, everybody is oppressor, even people who live in small apartments, even people who are left leaning politically. All bad. Somehow, demonizing Israel fits their battle against the “Evil Capitalist West”. Israel never had any Empire or was part of one. They took from the West what they thought was good, freedom to seek prosperity and also the advantage of seeking good relations with Democratic countries.

What I think the ideologues like in the non-Democratic countries are precisely the strong pictures, the very sad stories of poverty. They probably think that showing images of poor people suffering in the World, and not thinking too much about the ways of the leaders of those countries, will make people angry with the prosperous West, and therefore come to the conclusion that our freedom is evil in it’s nature. So people will want to fight against the fundaments of our Societies as a whole.

In fact, I think these Academical people who do that, need to do that to keep relevant, because even with all political polarity most people would agree that there must be a balance between social help and individual freedom and responsibility. Almost nobody who lives real lives in the real world are actually interested in socialism for real.

So Israel is perfect for that. It’s far enough so you can demonize everybody, and we have images of Gazans suffering, and the people in the West cities have no memory of being attacked by armies – it was an army – of cruel indiscriminate murderers, so the students can even get some support of normal people and therefore feel that they are real humanist fighters, not socialist fanatics that live in a bubble.

“Everybody will end up agreeing with us because wars are bad, and it doesn’t matter all that much how they started. Because, obviously, if you are powerful enough to win a war, you are obviously powerful enough to completely avoid it, right? I think Sun Tzu must have said that somewhere…”

It all works, but at the same time it is delicate, it seems that those people can’t let a drop of truth come in. So, even if most of the media is making a real show with the suffering of the Palestinians, they will be angrily attacked if they show any suffering on the Israeli side. Not a drop of the other side of the story.

Imagine talking about fallen Israeli soldiers and their families… Even posters of Israeli hostage people, including children, were torn because people might ask “who are these children?” And you could obviously talk about civil deaths in Gaza, but you would have to explain the whole situation.

You would have to talk about October 7^th. The description of October 7^{th  -} –  I can’t see it, I only forced myself to read the partial description from a trusted source, and even felt horrible because that person have seen that – but I don’t think he was wrong – anyway, the description of October 7^th would make people think, “well, something have to be done”, which brings us to the next step in the conversation, “What should be done?” You would have to say what Israel should do instead of what they are doing. And you don’t seem able to.

It is better to keep a perfect picture of a horribly rich and extremely white country, that confirms all you preach to your students, the students of great American Colleges, who also probably think they are the only people in the World smart enough to really see how bad the wars are.

Instead of explaining that people are dying because a group of leaders, with tyranny, make people believe, including children, that it is unacceptable that the end of the Age of Empires also gave birth to a small Jewish State in the Middle East. A tiny country for a people with no country, right there were they once first published the Genesis for us all.