It is indeed a hard knock life we have these days. Most everyone appears to be in a muddled world, even the Uber wealthy who stomp through the world as if they are higher, better than others. They too are finding it difficult. They too are not sure of who they are, what they are, where they belong, where they most certainly do not. Many of the population of the world in one way or another has lost self-direction, lost the capability to join or separate from others in logical, rational positive manner. It is because we do not understand the world any longer and thus, we simply do not understand ourselves.
Too many have lost their connection to a group, a heritage, a constructive directional compass as to how to make one's way through life. Because we have lost that guide pole. or safety rope, or blinking lights pointing the proper path, we find ourselves dwarfed by the pile of worries, concerns and uncertainties, challenged in frightening ways, and too many cling to what they should abhor, seeking desperately at times for their place in the world, their tethers to the truth of themselves - or at least what and where they should be.
In so doing, the noisy, loudmouth attracts them for he seems to know his place and lets everyone know that. His outer confidence attracts those who lack that surety and so he joins up and in, adopting every viewpoint and sacred cow and toxic hate espoused by that leader. If the original thought had a positive side or aspect to it, it gets lost in ugliness ever so much more powerful, liberating one from the rules, set free to shout, to threaten, to argue, to wreak havoc, and create chaos and fear.
It is especially tempting when surprisingly this act of rebellion is actually approved of by a growing number of societies, of societies around the world. Misery loves company. People feel safer in crowds for they can hide themselves within, spout garbage and avoid blame and consequence. No requirement to think, to compose a rational thought, for mob mentality takes over and independent thought is gone.
The ever-present tendency, need, of people to look down on others, of a class or group, of any religion or nationality, anyone whom they can drown in fear and suffocation, and do it along with hordes of others plays a great role in the causation and growth of these hostile movements. At times these mobs of crazed individuals shockingly, contain members of the attacked group, convincing themselves that they are different and no one will have at them.
How stupid, how blind, how vicious, these attempts are. In doing so they cut their ties to family, to friends, to fellow workers, and then shocked when one day the bill comes due. Then they will find that the hand they kissed has no more use for them and will exile them, back to their original classification, used and discarded and all backs will be turned to them. Their original group abandoned will turn away too, deeming them untrustworthy, even an enemy, and will extend no welcome to them. either.
These people are torn apart. They are actually fragile, no strength, no moral fiber within, their beliefs shallow. They too easily and specifically overlook the values they once had. The true values which had provided them with sustenance for life, for living, for love. No longer welcome anywhere, they wander through life alone or worse, facing a blowback of hate upon them. Even of the worst consequence.
In our current times, building upon an ancient trope of hate, there are so many, too many, who have lost their way. Too many who have joined with the mobs of hate actually, for whatever sick reason, hate themselves. Hate their families They hate the world for their own inadequacy, and in vivid viral abandonment of decency jump deep into the waters of fetid swamps of ugliness, of immorality.
They are empty within for they have rejected the values of their past, that which buoyed them, hence the emptiness within, the lack of a soul, the growth of a stone heart. They seek to fill up the empty space within, but it is a lost cause. That is indeed a Sisyphean task, for there is nothing solid or strong enough, nothing to permanently facilitate the evil they now desire and represent, nor to allow proper and true values of life to enter and facilitate repair and atonement.
In their moral turpitude and their haste to throw out all, they cause havoc and much pain. While they persist and remain in strength, it is only for an inevitable downfall and defeat, temporary in time. So we have learned from history but there was so much that cannot be undone. The slaughter of people, the destruction of society, the loss of so much positive gains we have made. Can one come from an emptiness within an even larger emptiness and actually fill in the vacuum?
They try but inevitably fail. Evil grows strong roots and does not so easily cede them to the uprooters.
Too often, the hate when defeated goes underground only to rise again at another time of uncertainty in an environment ripe to richly fertilize and enhance Hate, in particular JewHatred.
The hatred of Jews encouraged, waged by those very same mobs of insanity, with bloodlust growing ever stronger, even rising to the level of murder, individuals and mass attacks. Efforts to isolate Isreal and all Jews from the world, trying with all their might to disappear us from this world.
But I have news for all you vile haters out there. No matter how many foolish Jews forget that we are one, in good times and bad, it is of no account.
We have our Protector, from the beginning of the history of man until now. Some people forget their heritage, deny it, and forget that, they will reap their consequences and I can only pray that they get their due comeuppance.
Some people are torn inside, have torn and shredded their humanity, but at the end of it all, they lose and we win.
Come back, off those protest lines calling for your own deaths. The goal was not the war in Gaza, which they began with a massacre. It is not only the destruction of the state of Israel, the only Jewish nation among so many enemies. It is the desire to kill, yes, kill, all Jews, and like it or not, you share the fate of all Jewish people, good or bad.
Come, repair your battered souls.
Why? Because we are, always,
Am Echad. One Nation.
Lev Echad. One Heart.
Now and forever.
We lived yesterday, and continued into today and will be here, as well, as always, in the tomorrows to come.
Am Yisroel Chai! Lanetzach.
The nation, the people of Isreal, live forever.