"Enjoying The Show" As The World Burns

[Natus Videre]

We are physically in the same boat as the psychopaths and their authoritarian followers. Water has pierced the ship's hull and is pouring in, but our heads are still above the surface. There is no other vessel we can use to escape the ship, and even if we had one, it would be sabotaged by angry sharks (4D STS). We are officially stuck; the psychopaths are steering the ship in their cozy cabin while their authoritarian followers are dancing to loud music on the dance floor. Yikes! What can we do? Well, we can stop the music, but too many people are rhythmically engrossed in their favorite activity. Why would we stop them from having fun? After all, learning is fun! Yes, this is what we do—we inform them that learning is fun! We paint a few Cassiopaean quotes on the wall, produce a few "end-of-the-world-party" pamphlets, plant a few crystals around the room, and wait for the first disenchanted dancer to exit the room.

"Welcome, sir! Did you know that water has amazing properties?" asks @Joe.

"No, just give me some water, I'm so thirsty! Someone confiscated all the water bottles!" responds the dancer.

"It's your lucky day. Saltwater is very abundant these days," says @Joe.

"Saltwater?" ponders the dancer.

"Yes, but don't take my word for it. See for yourself," says @Joe as he opens the trap door.

The dancer realizes that the ship is about to be flooded.

"Oh no! We're all going to die!" exclaims the dancer.

"Eventually, yes, it's inevitable, but that isn't the issue," replies @Joe.

"What is the issue?" asks the dancer.

"The choices we make can protect us! The question is: what are YOU going to do now that YOU know the amazing properties of water?" says @Joe.

 

[Alejo]

Gaza is neither the first nor the last of these massacres.

Correct, but it's ours, it's the one in our lifetimes, in our now. I believe that is one of the differences, injustice always exists and darkness is everlasting, and perhaps that's part of it. Not so much that the thought of everlasting darkness serves as consolation, although it helps processing things I reckon. But rather, how does one respond to darkness now?

And this may or may not add to the main topic of conversation at hand, but it came up in conversation recently and I wanted to share it here FWIW. I find it absolutely amazing, how the entire pathological blood thirsty, cruel, cold and monstrous darkness has been unleashed on Palestine, with absolute impunity, with unlimited resources, in the most imaginative ways.

Almost any level of digging through the experience that they have to endure, in Gaza, the West Bank, in Israeli prisons will leave you disgusted and shocked at how this darkness operates when it knows it can get away with anything, it is no wonder that the population of psychopaths in Israel is so high. It's as if the signal was being sent out that, in here... anything goes.

And yet, they're unable to break the spirit. It was very visible when announcing the killing of Hamas' new leader, how they almost felt like they had scored such a great victory, and I wonder if they feel obfuscated, angry and confused when life just keeps on living. For whatever reason, I get the sense that they thought that after one year of torture they would all have given up, left, valued survival more, but hard as they try, they're unable to extinguish the light.

If there's a way to illustrate the difference between a psychopath, which is probably the biggest instrument for the expression of darkness and evil, and a corageous human being, this is it. Israel thinks it can eradicate life by killing it, because that is Israel's character. While Palestinians have been given every reason to leave, they have stayed, yet... there has been an exodus of Israelis leaving the country.

There's so many allegories and principles in this, cowardice and courage, spirit and body, weakness and strength, indeed.. light and darkness. You can't kill and idea by attempting to eradicate its physical expression, yet that's all Israel understands. And they have thrown everything at it, and they have failed.

I think that for the spirit there indeed are fates worse than the death of the body, yet.. for Israel there isn't, since this is all they have, this physical existence. So, it is amazing that despite all they have done and committed to their efforts, they have failed every single day.

 

[Evan]

Iceberg schmiceburg. Those of us who play instruments can expand the Chateau Band globally and all learn Nearer My God To Thee. Let the psychopaths kill their way onto the lifeboats. We have a lighthouse!

Too soon for an injection of dark humor?