Liabilities and reflections. This moment in history: the collapse of morality
The line between good and evil in modern times is excessively fragile. Political correctness in the professional sense is almost non-existent and simple issues like manners are forgotten. Boundaries are blurred and attitudes toward life and death have been eroded. Mercenary and predatory interests became the major drivers of decisions. Modern Political correctness eroded at the same pace and if it is not for a few countries that still understand how to do diplomacy, we would not have any of that left.
The UN and the UNSC with gross disregard displayed how little the human matters to them. Ongoing, we have to change these people. Broader cultural norms are similar to throwing the Christians to the lions, referring to Roman Times.
This is a result of cynical manipulation with an objective to blur and erode the human soul over the past years. Undoubtedly this is a creation of double standards governing the world, permissive to anything dependent only on the interpretation thereof. In such a way, the moral conscience of a large part of the world has been silenced. Let’s examine specific examples in terms of what we see and experience currently to understand this phenomenon.
We knew that we were and are going to take tremendous punishment with our move to a decent and well-constituted multipolarity structure where we can again inculcate the basic human values between people and countries. We did not know that the children in Gaza would be carrying the largest weight of the move, and it broke our hearts. We did not know that the world would start understanding, go out in the streets, and call for a ceasefire to stop the killing designed to supposedly show tremendous Israeli military strength. All it really shows is that they are fighters against babies and their place in the sun should shrink. We did not know that the west, the Atlanticist, the racist centers of power, the new-colonialists that cannot live without plunder, the occidentals would really try and blow the place up although in the process they have just unmasked themselves. We joked about blowing up the place and throwing over the chess board if you remember a few years ago. Well, this is happening.
Aleksandr Dugin nails it here. The western neoliberal “rules based order” is just another form of racist colonialism and imperialism. It fails to recognize the “other’s” right to self determination or sovereignty. “The west has no idea how to treat the other” as they have no idea how to treat one another and insults are considered to be a normal trait of being human.
Others try and make sense of it via the roads of vengeance or eschatological rage? Both Are Genocide in Gaza. Others consider the Israel/Gaza war as a war against BRICS and multipolarity. We’ve looked at the reasoning from Israel experts and excellent journalists to find out how they integrate the Israeli terror in their own world views and this was a worthwile exercise. Pepe Escobar considers this as part of the war against multipolarity. …. ties a great level of Eschatological beliefsets to the actions and so analysts have different views, but yet, it is all the same.
All of that is valid. One can find reasons for Israel’s insane rage but let us look a little deeper.
Why Israel?
Israel made themselves the supposed ‘anti-terror’ experts while selling terror. We all have heard of our police forces being trained by Israeli trainers, guerillas, or operatives. We may have thought that it is just an urban legend but in terms of Israel, they do offer vile training. If one is an expert on anti-terror, it follows that you have to be an expert on terror. And then, you can create terror as a marketable commodity and sell it.
They have a deep belief that they are God’s chosen people, but they also believe that they are victims and suffer from victimology.
Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order, by A. B. Abrams.
Let us see which part of the world order is being shaped and how.
Such deep hatred as we see from Israel to the Palestinians is not something one finds easily in the oriental mindsets. It is schizoid. Oriental mindsets are much more attuned and sensitive to what it is to be human. The cultural and value education and lifestyle become so different that it is almost impossible to identify. One can only know it by living it and seeing it. So far I have not found literature to outline this thoroughly although no doubt there is. Here is one example of how the oriental thinking shapes up:
Cries That Shake the Earth: Military Atrocities and Popular Protests in Warlord China
This article examines a rare instance in China’s warlord period when military officers were actually held accountable for military atrocities. These atrocities occurred in 1920, when retreating Northern troops pillaged and murdered their way through three Hunan counties before being forced to surrender to a Hunan army. A popular outcry immediately arose in Hunan to punish the officers for the crimes of their troops. Responding to this pressure, a Hunan military court ultimately sentenced two commanders and several other officers to death. Nonetheless, it was only the specter of possible political disorder, as protests escalated from angry press reports and petitions into actual street demonstrations by atrocity victims, that convinced Hunan’s new and relatively unstable provincial government to accede to these popular demands. The case therefore illuminates both the potential political power and limits of public opinion and popular protests in Republican China. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20062599
Atrocities seem to be then easier sold to the occidental mindset, (noun. the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations. There seems to be a cultural acceptance and rare excitement when atrocities are publically displayed. There are many that we can mention in the older literature, hangings, think of the French Revolution where heads rolled and people rejoiced, the witch hunts in the US of old, hangings in Ye Olde England where even children were taken with parents to watch.)
(I use occidental as the opposite of oriental to indicate mindset and cultural orientation rather than east and west indicating direction. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/492516/what-are-analogous-words-to-occidental-and-oriental-for-southern-and-norther. Atlantacists or “Occident” is a term for the West, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Western world. It is the antonym of Orient, the Eastern world. In English, it has largely fallen into disuse. .. divide and rule, if it does not go away we burn it down and build it again.)
And if there is no true atrocity, they make one up. The book Atrocity Fabrication cited a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that WikiLeaks published in 2016. The leak included reports on the eyewitness account of a Chilean diplomat and his wife who were present when the PLA made it to Tiananmen Square to disperse the protesters. The pair made it in and out of the square numerous times without any harassment and observed no mass firing of weapons into the crowds. They never saw any use of lethal force, to begin with.
Moreover, the book cited former Washington Post, Beijing Bureau chief Jay Mathews who, in 1998, admitted that “all verified eyewitness accounts say that the students who remained in the square when troops arrived were allowed to leave peacefully.”
The Israel / Gaza war is far from any resolution. The world does not know how to say no to the insane. Our so-called International Law does not have such a method. Israel is connected to the western racist centers of power and goes beyond calculations of geopolitics only … it is an occidental issue with roots in antisemitism, i.e., self-worth and racism, roots not because of love, but a dark history built in combination with a historical teaching of hatred of the other. The middle islamic, Ottoman was the only area that naturally opened up to the Israelites without hate. Palestinians pay the price as a balance was not created. So Israel is confident that their ‘friends’ will stand by her, as they’ve done so in all the previous Gaza haircuts.
The Occidentals are
- Morally bankrupt
- Militarily full of hubris
- Pressurizes others
- Repeat
The Colonial sentimentality regimes cannot survive outside of some kind of international sphere of interest. They need others to justify their stance for them. But it is coming to an end. Israel denies rights of certain ones, and accepts the rights of others. It has just stopped working and the hegemonic regime is being called out across the world.
So currently, they flip-flop between Vengeance or Eschatological Rage? Both Are Genocide in Gaza. It does not matter what the surrounding beliefs are. And the killing of children and innocent does not touch the Israeli spirits and they are in the process of destroying everything so that there is nothing for the inhabitants to inhabit. And now they want to convince others to take the Gazans and Palestinians in as refugees. Yes, it may be the oil deals that we all know about, but that is not all. It is a conglomeration of reasons and motivations.
Every minute of this epic @UN address from @Palestine_UN is worth watching. She dismantles Israel’s lies and disinformation, sets out what Palestine stands for, and why it will succeed. Watch and Share!#Gaza_War #Gaza_Genocide pic.twitter.com/1DTPs8UFot
— Ousman Noor (@ousmannoor) November 18, 2023
Here is a different take on the reasons.
You see, for Israel to cut water & electricity, besiege a city, bomb & massacre civilians is normal behaviour that leaves its officials w/o any remorse. It is normal because we are dealing with the 2d and 3d generations of the Zionist Irgun Terrorist organisation, born in 1931
– Those who created #Israel and ruled it came from the Irgun terrorists. Therefore, it is normal behaviour in a terrorist mentality to torture people and make them suffer before killing them. ZIONISM AND TERROR: THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
– For #Israel, zionist terrorists, it leaves them with no remorse to kill children since 1931. Therefore, don’t be surprised when you believe that the killing of 4500 children might shake the Israeli zionist consciousness because there isn’t one.
– The Netanyahu concern is how to save himself after the war and who to blame for the failure of the 7th of October under his watch. That is it. There is no feeling for ethnic cleansing or exodus or genocide or crimes against humanity as Israel has its back covered by the #US.
– But, for the first time, the social media has the upper hand over mainstream media. We here have the power to influence governments around the world to see what is happening in Gaza, and they can’t ignore it.
– In some of their writings and revelations, Zionists Joseph Trumpeldor, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Menahem Begin, Ben Gurion, and all the Israeli generals assert that violence and terror are the backbone of the plan to enforce the Zionist program. This was necessarily so because the Zionists have invaded Palestine, evicted the majority of the population, and followed this up with further use of force and terrorism.’ The Zionists are convinced “that physical force is the only tangible political reality which carries weight and is significant in the affairs of nations…current Israeli political vision is mostly conceptualized in terms of jets and tanks.”
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy:
Israeli society has surrounded itself with shields, walls, not only physical, but also mental. I will simply give three principles that allow us Israelis to live easily in this harsh reality.
First. Most, if not all, Israelis deeply believe that we are the chosen people. And if we are the chosen people, we have the right to do whatever we want.
Second. There have been more brutal occupations in history. There have been longer occupations in history. But never in history has there been an occupation in which the occupier presented himself as a victim. The other day Professor Falk spoke about this double strategy of Israel: to be a victim on the one hand and to manipulate on the other.
And finally, I come to the third set of values that allow us Israelis to live in peace with occupation. This is perhaps the most important and worst of them. And this is the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians.
Because if they are not like us, then there can be no talk of human rights. And if you scratch every Israeli, you will find it there. Almost no one will treat the Palestinians as equal people, as themselves. After all, how many Israelis have ever tried to put themselves even for a moment in the shoes of the Palestinians, for a moment, for a day?
The Israeli regime is deliberately using “disproportionate force” against Palestinian civilians during its ongoing brutal onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip in an attempt to showcase its so-called “military force” to Iran and what it claims to be Iran’s affiliated resistance groups, an official document has revealed.
The special term for Israeli fascism is of course Zionism. There are only two more countries that openly call themselves the chosen ones and that openly say “we can do anything.” These are the USA and Ukraine. Super nations, super people who do not consider others to be people. Draw your own conclusions.
The wars fought by Israel and Ukraine seem to share little in common beyond American military support. Yet, at their core, they may be driven by the same collective ethos of victimhood and entitlement rooted in the horrors of World War II. In both cases, national identity has been derived from and fostered by the sense of an existential threat. Is reconciliation with neighbors even possible within such a worldview?
People across the world are breaking down, can’t sleep at night after seeing pictures of the mangled bodies of civilians, many of them children, who are being slaughtered in Gaza. They are shocked by the sheer scale of the devastation and the impunity of those who commit war crimes before our eyes. They experience very high levels of anxiety and feel powerless to stop the genocide of Palestinians. It seems that the West is pursuing not only the destruction of Gaza but also the destruction of people’s faith in humanity and is trying to break their will to resist. It demands submission. The genocidal West is at war with those who don’t submit, and not only in the Middle East.
In order to resist you need to practice mental hygiene and dispel fears of impotence. This is a war on our minds as well and that’s why we need to protect ourselves. Read more about anti-imperialism, about its victories, and not only about its setbacks. Learn from Palestinians, whose resistance wasn’t broken by any of the massacres they suffered. Luckily for us, the number of countries that refuse to submit to the Collective West is constantly growing. This is a long march, and we all need to be fit enough to keep fighting on many fronts.
What did Nietzsche mean when he wrote: “If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you”?
Nietzsche makes his remark about the abyss (in Beyond Good and Evil ) just after cautioning the reader that someone who fights monsters risks becoming a monster himself.
That can happen to the man of ressentiment. (Hostility directed to those that you consider are the architects of your misfortune). This man is convinced that his various disabilities are caused by someone or something out to get him, and that if only the scourge were eliminated from the world all would be well.
If this is your attitude, Nietzsche is saying, you’re going to get really good at ferreting out the nasty parts of life, wherever they might be hiding, and you’ll uncover one hitherto unrecognized injustice after another: first racism, then structural racism, then elitism, then heteronormativism, ableism, lookism, microaggression…. You may get to the point where you can see nothing but monsters. Someone who sees nothing but monsters can’t fail to develop an affinity with monsters. You may become the kind of monster known as a “moral saint.”
Now, should we interpret what Nietzsche says next, about the abyss gazing into you, as a restatement of this thought? An amplification of or addition to it?
Well, the theme of this aphorism, to judge by the first sentence, concerns the hazards of the life of the free spirit – the one who undermines existing values and creates new values of his own.
Nietzsche seems to mean that if your highest value is truth and you pursue it at the expense of everything else, you risk encountering truths that cause you to question the value of life. This kind of truth can potentially drain you of energy and inhibit your will to power, which Nietzsche thinks is the most valuable thing there is.
The healthiest human being, Nietzsche thinks, is one whose sheer love of life is so powerful that he or she enthusiastically desires the eternal repetition of everything that has happened and will happen – good, bad, and evil. Such a person affirms life without qualification, absolutely. Only a person like this can afford to know all the truth. But how do you know whether you’re that kind of person? Or whether there are some truths about the human condition that, if you acknowledged them, would inhibit your love of life?
The only way to find out is to stare deeply into the abyss of truth. An abyss is something that is bottomless: there’s no end to the search for truth. The issue is where the bottom is for you. At some point you may find that the abyss is staring back at you, and then you’ll know you’ve hit bottom.
What Nietzsche is saying could be construed as “Know your limits – be cautious.” Or he could be construed as asking “How strong are you? You’ll never know unless you search the abyss.”
And the process itself is dangerous because we see Palestinian babies may become a monsters in the mind of some, because we handled the abyss to split the atom of good and evil.
Team B and the Jerusalem Conference: How Israel Helped Craft Modern-Day “Terrorism”