Here is an example of how arbitrariness,
used in the definition of words, has been instrumental in creating the
upside-down logic that brought down an empire in its infancy.
The example is an article that came under
the title: “Iran's eroding proportionality,” and the subtitle: “Feeling the
pressure of US sanctions, Iran becomes more dangerous.” The article was written
by Jed Babbin and published on July 30, 2019 in The Washington Times.
What's wrong with this piece of work?
What's wrong is that it advances two diametrically opposed arguments in the
same breath. From one side of the mouth, Jed Babbin is saying that Iran did not
respect the principle of proportionality by overreacting to America's
provocations. From the other side of the mouth, he is saying something which
goes like this: Boy, did we get those Iranians real good where it hurts them
the most. We cornered them so tightly, they had no choice but to lash out ...
Well then; think about it, my friend. Isn't this an admission that Iran
under-reacted (not overreacted) to America's monstrous provocations, by a long
shot?
Despite that admission, Babbin remained
undeterred about relying on the upside-down logic that's currently infesting the
American culture, and proceeded to advise America it must, in turn, ignore the
principle of proportionality and go all out after Iran. Imagine the gall. But
really, since when was America like that? Good question. The truth is that
America was never like that until a few decades ago. So, the question to ask is
this: what happened that caused America to degenerate to this level of rotting
logic?
The answer is that it all happened when
the rabbis took charge of America's fountain of clear logic and confidently but
stealthily turned it into a fountain of muddied logic. The rabbis began
attacking America’s childlike innocence half a century ago by advancing a very
subtle argument. It was to the effect that all things associated with the Jews
or Israel count as one pile, whereas all things associated with the rest of
humanity count as a separate pile ... and the two must never be allowed to mix.
Ironically, the rabbis developed that form
of inverted logic and had it embedded into the American culture by employing
the very loud trick of braying their discontent about the discourses carried
out by gentiles at the time. Like jackasses in the wild, the rabbis trained
themselves to bray a lament that sounded something like this: You can't
compaaaaare, you can't compaaaaare. They relied on this lament to establish a
principle that boils down to this: What we say and do is kosher; what you say
and do is not … and the two must never be allowed to conflate.
And there was something else that added to
the farcical nature of the Jewish logic. It is that despite the establishment
of the virtual principle that made them different from everyone else, the Jews
had their rabbis shout from the rooftop the demand that they not be treated in
a manner that might suggest they were different from anyone else. Try to wrap
your head around this concept, dear reader. I'm still working on it.
Years and decades came and went, and
during all this time, the rabbis' rotting logic was subjected to mutations of
all kinds. Sadly, the end result is what we see in many of today's works––a
pattern similar to that established in Babbin's piece of work. We see attempts
to use upside-down logic to justify what a civilized society would never
countenance. Here is a condensed sample of that work:
“Is proportionality failing? Or is it that
Iran, feeling the pressure of American sanctions, is behaving like a cornered
rat? If Iran were offering to negotiate while the sanctions were still in
place, in the hope of earning relief from them, that would be entirely
different. It would indicate that Iran lacked the power to continue. The rat
isn't cornered yet”.
Imagine someone uttering words to that
effect when describing the murderous activities of Israel's Jews. After all,
the word “proportionality” did not enter the modern-day discourses, were it not
for Israel's army of occupation going after the unarmed protesters of
Palestine, using live bullets, tank shells, helicopter gunships and F-16
warplanes armed with American-made smart bombs and guided missiles.
Year after year and decade after decade,
dozens of nations, hundreds of organizations and millions of people around the
globe, expressed their disgust verbally and in writing at Israel's
disproportionate responses. But no one came out and called the Jews, “rats”
even when the latter harvested the internal organs of the Palestinian children
they murdered in cold blood.