Environment & Energy

My mother had a soft spot for the state of Israel. It was partly a certain contrarianism evoked by the bullshit of a specific type of Indian left, if Indira Gandhi etc can be considered left. Arguably someone who enacted the emergency and was responsible for the massacre of many Sikhs is somewhat suspect as a leftist. But so much of human politics is more bloviation than rationality.

She didn’t like extremely mechanically predictable worldviews. Her own were fairly fluid to the extent that they were responsive to new information rather taking a rigid stance and ossifying. Outside of environmental issues, where the balance is tilted way too extremely against the earth.

And she liked Jewish writers like Herman Wouk and Leon Uris. Though we both agreed that “Exodus” was unreadable and that Ari Ben Canaan (an insufferable macho type) was very annoying.

But it seems as if Israel is on a suicidal path and its so called friends are not real friends but warmongering defense contractors and a species of sycophants dazzled by toughness and buying into grotesque stereotypes about Jewish power only wanting a cut of it.

An unequal society of bullies and sycophants on a suicide march. Speaking of bullying, I have to go bully Hennessy some more..everything is the fault of computers.