Actually I'm somewhat surprised by the coverage the people of Gaza are getting by the msm. By which I mean the front pages of the NYtimes, the Washington Post and the Guardian. This is in comparison with the coverage of the Ukraine war.

Zelensky was the second coming of Churchill, the Russians were bumbling stooges, Putin is Hitler, has cancer, died, etc. The ukrainians are winning, just need a few billions more to keep up the good fight, etc. Given anyone who has even moderately followed the news over the last few years, let alone decades knows it's the most monumentally corrupt country on the planet and one of Trump's impeachments was daring to question Biden's involvement.

Yet the front pages of the papers are regularly showing blown up buildings and bloody children's bodies. While the reporting is mostly pro Israel, there is some degree of balanced commentary and a few pieces from the Palestinian side.

I live in an area with a large Jewish population and there are no Israeli flags, like there were Ukrainian flags.

It's like Israel is that off the wall, but lovable uncle, that's off on one of his benders again and while we have his back and will cover the lawyers bills, we really wish he would quit pulling this shit. The neighbors are starting to do more than just talk.

I think it's safe to say it isn't just due to some latent antisemitism, given how shallow our culture has become anyway. Though in Europe there is a lot more, not because of the history of pogroms, but all the Islamic refugees and colonial transplants.

So what is the reason?

I suspect it is that rather enormous civil tension between the liberal, cosmopolitan, globalist side and the conservative, nationalist, religiously conservative side, that while it is the dominant political discourse in the United States, was bordering on civil war in Israel, before Oct. 7th.

As the extremely fundamentalist religious side of the Israeli population starts gaining the upper hand over the Western, liberal side.

Given that in the West, it is this liberal side that controls the media.

The reality is, the logical basis of the Western paradigm is built on a number of logical fallacies that are coming home to roost.

For one thing, the conventional concept of God, in the words of Pope John Paul 2, the all-knowing absolute, is a contradiction.

The premise of God as an ideal of wisdom and judgement, doesn't make it an absolute.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The creeds and heroes around which communities and nations coalesce, like Moses and the Ten Commandments, are ideals.

The absolute, on the other hand, is universal and with no distinctions, divisions, differences, etc. The only modern application is a temperature of absolute zero.

There is no partial absolute, like there is partial truth, or subjective absolute, like there is subjective beauty.

So assuming there can be only one true ideal creed must mean that not only are all others false and misleading, but an affront to the one true belief.

It doesn't take much imagination to see why this creates a world of all against all.

Remember that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures and when the West went back to them, it required a separation of church and state, culture and civics.

We can either reset the program, through war and start over again, or we can go back and try to debug the software driving society.