It’s Time For Our Obligatory Two Minutes Hate
Animals! Barbarians! Murderers! Rapists! Baby-killers!
We are talking about Hamas, of course.
I am not talking about the politics of the situation, I am talking about the media coverage of the situation, and how the “enemy” is portrayed as:
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Let me continue by saying: war is an atrocity.
The larger point is: Orwell was right in his observation of the human tendency and enjoyment of hate, and how this hate is used to control a population by focusing everyone’s anger and fear toward a common enemy, always shifting enemy — which enemy it is doesn’t matter, only that there is an enemy.
There always must be an enemy.
In my lifetime, the enemy has been Russia, China, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, France, Vietnam, North Korea, Lebanon, Panama, Afghanistan, Syria, the Terrorists, Terrorists, Terrorists.
In each case, we are asked to hate these people.
Hamas is only the latest focus of our collective rage and hate.
Again, this isn’t about politics. I don’t care of you’re pro-Palestine or pro-Israel. The point is the hate, the always shifting alliances, and the continuation of new foci for all of our collective rage and hate.
