Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Between the mundane and the high-minded

There is no doubt that all genres of fiction fire-up the imagination of the audience. This is true even though most fictional works imitate life. Certainly, most dramas do that, as do most comedies to a lesser extent. There is, however, a genre which sets itself apart from the others in that life seeks to imitate it more often than the other way around.

That genre is fantasy. It is so vast, in fact, it splits into several categories, ranging from the horror stories to the highest-minded science fiction. In-between you find the adventure type, which is what the editors of the Wall Street Journal chose to employ as metaphor to illustrate the points they make with regard to current events.

The editorial they wrote came under the title: “Kerry's Invisible Bridge” and the subtitle: “The Secretary takes a leap of faith on Iran's self-inspections.” It was published on August 26, 2015 in the Journal. The invisible bridge they refer to is the one that's featured in the film: “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” They say that in the matter of Iran's self-inspection, Secretary of State Kerry is acting out a leap-of-faith similar to: “Indy, standing at the edge of an abyss, sticks out his leg to discover an invisible bridge that will get him to the other side.”

This is an analogy that works, of course, but it is an adventure fantasy that is no match to the high-minded science fiction that came before it, and may well have inspired that scene. I am referring to the series of films “Back to the Future,” one of which had a train headed towards an abyss where there was no bridge to take it to the other side. But this was happening in the past, whereas a bridge existed in the future. Luckily, by the time that the train had come to the edge of the abyss, it reached the required velocity to pass into the future and onto the bridge that took it safely to the other side.

This too is an analogy that works, but it does more than that. The comparison between the adventure fantasy used by the editors, and the science fiction they could have used but did not, compounds the analogy in that the choice they made reveals how mundane they have been, opting for the adventure fantasy instead of the loftier science fiction … preferring the mundane over the high minded.

And so it is with the way that they view the relationships which exist among human beings, as well as those that exist among nations. The reality is that the human race is moving away from the view that people are inherently evil, or that they must be made to fear the consequences of their actions to make certain they will act correctly. In fact, trust among the people had always been the attitude in America. It was the currency that made the people take risks and go from there to build a magnificent civilization.

And then the Jews came to America, fashioned as they are by an apocalyptic ideology which views human nature as being inherently evil. And slowly but surely, they infused the American culture with the distrust that has transformed what used to be optimistic America into a suspicious and pessimistic society. America is now the place where the two parties that used to form the wings of the political eagle, turned against each other with the one that happens to govern at any point, investigating the other for real wrongdoings or for imagined ones. This goes on till the party in power loses an election, thus gets to be investigated in turn. All the while, the business of America has become paralyzed while that of Israel, a Jewish foreign entity, was placed on the fast-track.

Having wrapped the political system tightly, and having placed it safely in their pocket, the Jews refashioned America's foreign policy, turning it into a weapon they unleashed on the world. They did so with America's relations in the Middle East where there used to be the proverbial Garden of Eden, and there is now – thanks to America's bungling – a Dante Alighieri style Hell.

The Jews continue to pull the apocalyptic strings they employed to wrap the political system, intending to use America's various powers to do to Iran what they did to Iraq and Libya. This time, however, they lunged against an Obama-Kerry team that said enough was enough. And so, the Jews are trying to make of them the enemies of America, hoping they will be treated with the contempt that the parties in Congress treat each other.

Their scheme is to see the Congress bring to the table enough treasure for them to gather and distribute among their own in Israel and everywhere else in the world. And for the Congress to pledge enough American lives to sacrifice for the glory of Israel, the way they did it in Iraq.