Sunday, September 29, 2013

Eagles Turned Vultures, Jackals Turned Lions

Imagine yourself watching a National Geographic episode on television, showing life in Africa's Serengeti Desert where a pack of jackals have brought down a small antelope. They are feeding on it when all of a sudden an eagle appears in the sky above. Sensing instinctively what is about to happen, the Jackals move a safe distance away from the prey and watch the eagle swoop down on the carcass. It takes it up into the sky and disappears behind the blue yonder of the firmament for, this is what eagles do.

Just as you're about to turn off the television set, a flash of light blinds you and causes you to fall back on the couch. The next thing you know is that you're waking up from a deep sleep feeling dizzy. You're still on the same couch but a few things have changed around you. For one thing, you feel older than before, so you look at the television screen and discover that you are watching a different episode of National Geographic. You know that time has passed but you don't know how much time. You switch to the channel that displays the time and date where you discover that a generation has passed.

You return to the National Geographic channel where you see that lions – not jackals – have brought down a big wildebeest, not a small antelope. They are feeding on it while a flock of vultures on the ground – not eagles in the sky – are keeping themselves at a safe distance away from the banquet of the lions. The vultures are motionless, waiting for the lions to have their fill and move away so that they may go in and feed on the few morsels that the lions may have left behind.

Being the intelligent person that you are, you recognize this occurrence as being a metaphor representing the world in the way that it has developed during the past generation. The games are bigger now, and so are the hunters. As to the eagles of yesteryear, they have become the vultures of today. They do not take what they want when they want it like they used to do; they now scrounge in dangerous places looking for the leftovers that will appease their hunger and sustain them till they find their next meal.

You think about it with a mix of sorrow and nostalgia, and wish that everyone would see life the way you do now. But you realize this is not what is happening because there are people in this world who still refuse to believe that the world has changed. They do not know they need to adapt to the new reality lest they be eaten alive, and so they sit like a prey waiting to be hunted down. One of these people is Jackson Diehl who writes a column for the Washington Post. He wrote one under the title: “Obama's myopic worldview” and had it published in the Post on September 26, 2013.

It is obvious from the title that Jackson Diehl is describing the quarrel he is having with President Barack Obama with regard to the current state of the world. As you begin to read the article, you quickly realize that this is a quarrel between Barack the man and Jackson the boy. It is the worldview of an adult that is challenged by the worldview of a child who refuses to grow up.

In fact, you get a sense that you are hearing a child say he heard mom and dad say this and that the other day. But you know this cannot be true because you know that adults do not talk like that. You realize there may be some truth in what the child is saying but that his small mind and his imagination have created an entirely new situation from the reality to which he was exposed. Thus, you conclude that the worldview described by the boy Jackson is nothing but a collage of stereotypes made up by the Jewish organizations, and propagated by the active members of the various echo chambers in America.

But then the boy surprises you. Wham! He hits you in the face with the following: “This [Obama's] definition of stability requires ignoring all that would disturb it.” It is as if he did not believe a word of what he was saying while saying it. He is now admitting that some form of stability does exist, but it is one that he does not like. So then, what does he do to attack it? He finds an angle to do just that. He says the stability can be disturbed in the future by forces that are not here, but forces that can materialize down the road. And here too, you realize that this is the influence of the false prophets who predict future apocalypses when they fail to scare you in the present.

But what is it that the boy Jackson wants from the man Barack? Well, he begins by reminding him of the promise he once made: “He [Obama] defined a new set of 'core principles' that the United States would defend in the Middle East, including free speech...” Hey kid, yes you the boy Jackson, let me tell you what you need to do first. You need to work on securing free speech in America before trying to implement it where it is not hindered. Have you heard of someone being blacklisted for half a century because he dared long ago to write an article under the title: Don't listen to propaganda, Egypt is a civilized country? This sort of thing happens here in North America where the Jews are masters, and people like you are but echo repeaters in the service of repeating every piece of crap they stuff into your mouth.

Cover your nakedness, kid before you tell someone else they need to wear different attire. And for God's sake, don't run around saying things like: “As Egyptians and Syrians can testify...” These people will testify to what they want when they want it. They don't need a loser like you practicing your kind of fabricated hearsay in their name at their expense.

Get that, kid? If not, you better try hard because the next thing you know is that you'll wake up from your sleep older by a generation, and find that the lions are munching on you and those like you.