Let me entertain this line because I can begrudgingly accept that the genocide only activated a significant but narrow set of Americans. That makes me curious about Bibi’s value over replacement player. In the post of a genocide, isn’t the only wincon keeping America involved? It’s basically doing intentional fouls at the end of a basketball game. Would a different coach just let the clock run out? No! That’s how the game is played.
Genocidal leaders don’t like peace and they need bodies for the grinder. Fascism is a death drive, after all. How could an ethnonationalist society do otherwise? How could you be Israel’s leader and behave differently? Just be the leader and not try to undermine the peace talks?
How could you be Israel’s leader and behave differently?
I would simply not do the whole genocide thing and instead start purging genociders, but that’s just me and that would be pretty unelectable in Isn’treal.
It’s kinda the fascist Base and Superstructure, the economy of Israel is entirely based in colonialism and genocide, and the politicians and civilians are mutually locked into a death spiral where they just keep making eachother more genocidal.
Tangentially related, but I think the Epicurean paradox is so philosophically solid that it obviates the concept of God as Metaphor.
Christianity has such a weirdly anthropomorphic view of God that just doesn’t make sense to me as a Jew. Even the Rabbi of my pretty middle of the road Reform synagogue growing up was very explicit about the view of God as a metaphorical concept rather than as a literal Magic Sky Daddy, which would be blasphemous in just about any Christian church.
I fucking love the concept of god as a sense of personal morality. Like whether something is permissible is “between you and god.” Or things that are up to chance are “in god’s hands.”
Let me entertain this line because I can begrudgingly accept that the genocide only activated a significant but narrow set of Americans. That makes me curious about Bibi’s value over replacement player. In the post of a genocide, isn’t the only wincon keeping America involved? It’s basically doing intentional fouls at the end of a basketball game. Would a different coach just let the clock run out? No! That’s how the game is played.
Genocidal leaders don’t like peace and they need bodies for the grinder. Fascism is a death drive, after all. How could an ethnonationalist society do otherwise? How could you be Israel’s leader and behave differently? Just be the leader and not try to undermine the peace talks?
I would simply not do the whole genocide thing and instead start purging genociders, but that’s just me and that would be pretty unelectable in Isn’treal.
Yeah, I was sort of circling that idea. Sort of like an opposite world Epicurean paradox.
If the leader is not genocidal and the country is not ethnonationalist, then whence cometh Israel?
It’s kinda the fascist Base and Superstructure, the economy of Israel is entirely based in colonialism and genocide, and the politicians and civilians are mutually locked into a death spiral where they just keep making eachother more genocidal.
Tangentially related, but I think the Epicurean paradox is so philosophically solid that it obviates the concept of God as Metaphor.
Christianity has such a weirdly anthropomorphic view of God that just doesn’t make sense to me as a Jew. Even the Rabbi of my pretty middle of the road Reform synagogue growing up was very explicit about the view of God as a metaphorical concept rather than as a literal Magic Sky Daddy, which would be blasphemous in just about any Christian church.
I fucking love the concept of god as a sense of personal morality. Like whether something is permissible is “between you and god.” Or things that are up to chance are “in god’s hands.”