The word is progress, a defined and desirable
condition in humanity's ongoing quest for meaning
and purpose. What could go wrong? It depends
on whether you are deemed to be in the progressive
camp or whether you become a sideswept rejection
of the progressive mind. It sounds so very benign and
forward-looking, that proudly stated commitment to
social progress, making the world a better place. It is
perhaps a distant offshoot in time of the Enlightenment
when values gave rise to visions of equality and
acceptance; liberty for all to do, to think for themselves
and embrace diversity as a just and lasting virtue.
Before the enlightened masses discarded rejection
contempt and discrimination against Jews came
the final reckoning of an ancient pathology after
which it became a shameful social incorrectness
to spout antisemitism. When came a state of their
dedicated own, progressives became convinced
that slander and rejection had its place after all
renewing Jew-hate for the higher purpose of
empathizing with Arab antagonists who convincingly
re-wrote history to proclaim themselves authentic
inheritors of ancient Judaea, not Judeans. So it is
that Jews in Israel surrounded by lethal threats
must also relive that history of venomous hatred for
the audacity of forging a return to their ancestral home.
A response to the rejection of the great wide world
once complicit in genocide, now committed to return
to the social environment that bred the Holocaust.
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