Along with those words, soon to be explained, we get an acclaimed film fitting perfectly into the crazed puzzle of reality today. And probably of most times, though we do not always recognize that. A Holocaust film, not in the usual track, presents the banality of evil, as per Hannah Arendt, the 'normal' life of a family, domestic, so proud of Papa's success, even as strange ominous sounds leak over a shared wall, one side the garden of the family, so beautiful, well-tended, and the rather mysterious source of those background noises on the other side.
Apparently, we humans do not recognize, nor care to recognize, the Poles in life that have governed humanity since time immemorial. Good and Evil, with the distinction between them not very clear nor far apart, nor immovable. Most important, it very, very clearly, has no impact upon life as skewed values rate successful smoothly functioning life as far more important than methods used to attain that state of being. Whatever goes, whatever works. Evil is whatever works against that state of being. Whatever. No brakes. No boundaries. The banality of evil, merely a desire to get along in life, to succeed, to prosper, to provide for family, to contribute to society and be rewarded for it all. One thing begins to glimmer, almost unnoticed, at the very edge of the scenes of the movie. We begin the movie in darkness and quite frankly, we have not emerged from that darkness, deny it we might. The same godawful antisemitism, limitless, the core of the network of death, prized, praised, along with its chic outer accoutrements - the badges, the flags, the banners, the crowd among whom one can hide, cede responsibility, and not to forget that trendy kaffiyeh.
So - WHERE ARE THE JEWS IN ALL OF THIS? Jews and their extermination absent.
Jews and the end planned for them - absent. Is it to teach us that hate's targets have no role, are of no importance, or even relevance, as anyone could be placed in that role? Anyone would do in that role? Yes, hate and its ugliness know no bounds in its crazed need for blood, its everlasting hunger.
However, the hate of antisemitism has a vicious overlayer far above that of other targets. It is a hate which never dies, even as it is denied, even as its violence is ramped up. Even as it emerges from the dank cellars of immorality and viciousness of people. As it climbs, as a poisonous, suffocating vine, up to the top of society and government, tied down to the lowest ranks, the bestial dregs of humanity. Ignoring this ancient poison is to enable its existence, its justification and delights the haters. Very much so. No rhyme or reason, its toxicity unrivaled. Ignoring it while it is in plain sight does not work, other than to enable and encourage its malevolence.
So, again - Where. Are. The. Jews?
For that answer I refer you back to the title. Nones are those who deny any connection to religion. In many cases I agree with them, for religion has veered from faith, the core of any religion, now become a tool of humanity, used to justify or condemn, whatever is the prevailing need. However, being a 'none' does not mean one abandons the laws of humanity. Not at all.
On the other hand, there are those who use religion to excuse their crimes and excesses. Other faiths are excoriated, often with great glee and malice aforethought. True Faith. Morality. Not of any great importance, too often glaring in its absence, so profoundly causational of much of the evil of the world.
Many of us have forgotten to use the reflecting mirror, the one which reflects the inner being. Where the evil we have allowed to corrupt our souls grows, solidly implanted within us. 'Zopas' are zones of possibilities. It is altered and used as it gives advantages. These days Israel is the go-to approved and convenient target for zopas of disastrous demands and existential consequences, leading straight into a total absence of security for Israel and in fact, allows for, will inevitably result in a bloodletting such as never before been seen and the end of Israel. World Jewry - the blanks are easily completed. The tsk, tsk sounds will fill the air for about two seconds and then life will go on.
If true juxtaposition was in use, the truth is clear, undeniable, yet the world, in its blindness, its acceptance and valuation of the banality of evil pathway, where all is relative, morality quite flexible, will not change. It will refuse to see the truth, will refuse correction to skewed zopas, to religions abandoning faith, continue to ignore the beauty of good people with no attachment to religion as is such.
Only with true juxtaposition, with recognition of truth, of history, of facts, and an end to the attempts to 'disappear' Jews from history, denying their existence, severing the unspeakable Holocaust from Jewish history will there finally be a modicum of good which perhaps will serve as a basis for mankind to step forward, step up, into better zopas, into a recognition that no, Evil is not banal and when we claim so, we become so.
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Sleep tight, my sweet boy. Thís ugliness is not for an innocent, loving soul. Tomorrow is another day, and perhaps a better one.
Love you. Always and forever.
Always and forever.
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