Many thanks for this, Alon. Brilliant and yes, beautiful. I have been thinking about this too-- and you have struck the center of the target. Zionism, as a species of racism, settler-colonialism, and imperialist adjunct, embodies the psychotic will to destroy the boundaries of language itself (embodied, as you demonstrate, in geography, morality, culture, resources), to destroy the human, non-objectified body of the colonial subject, the body which includes its history, its society, its sharing in collective experience and truth, and above all, its sheer sentience, its presence for, and respect for the boundaries of, the other.
This will to destroy lies at the heart of its enterprise of dominance-- in which the the sadistic objectification of the other, inherent in the modalities of torture and mass murder, inveterately drives to legitimize itself, to dominate thought to suit its purposes, to destroy historical memory, and literally subvert human conscience. It is the archetype of the vampire, the zombie, and the walking dead, writ large and actualized in history.
You echo the words of Aime Cesaire in Return to My Native Land:
"Heia for those who have never invented anything
those who never explored anything
those who never tamed anything
those who give themselves up to the essence of all things
ignorant of surfaces but struck by the movement of all things
free of the desire to tame but familiar with the play of the world..."
and the insights of Elaine Scarry in the Body in Pain:
“The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absent by destroying it.”
Yes, Zionism and the demented visions of the West have reached their implosion point. But in this interregnum, we all walk a razor's edge.
This was the "reset" I needed today, Alon. I was veering into the destabilization you speak of here, difficulty sleeping, etc. Zionism is an aggressive cancer that is poisoning the world and very few nations (or their leaders) are stopping it.
My mind, my soul will not be colonized. Deep gratitude for your "medicine" today!
What a courageous and expansive final overview and summary of the state of the world today! Breathtakingly true.
Horrifying truths
Many thanks for this, Alon. Brilliant and yes, beautiful. I have been thinking about this too-- and you have struck the center of the target. Zionism, as a species of racism, settler-colonialism, and imperialist adjunct, embodies the psychotic will to destroy the boundaries of language itself (embodied, as you demonstrate, in geography, morality, culture, resources), to destroy the human, non-objectified body of the colonial subject, the body which includes its history, its society, its sharing in collective experience and truth, and above all, its sheer sentience, its presence for, and respect for the boundaries of, the other.
This will to destroy lies at the heart of its enterprise of dominance-- in which the the sadistic objectification of the other, inherent in the modalities of torture and mass murder, inveterately drives to legitimize itself, to dominate thought to suit its purposes, to destroy historical memory, and literally subvert human conscience. It is the archetype of the vampire, the zombie, and the walking dead, writ large and actualized in history.
You echo the words of Aime Cesaire in Return to My Native Land:
"Heia for those who have never invented anything
those who never explored anything
those who never tamed anything
those who give themselves up to the essence of all things
ignorant of surfaces but struck by the movement of all things
free of the desire to tame but familiar with the play of the world..."
and the insights of Elaine Scarry in the Body in Pain:
“The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absent by destroying it.”
Yes, Zionism and the demented visions of the West have reached their implosion point. But in this interregnum, we all walk a razor's edge.
This was the "reset" I needed today, Alon. I was veering into the destabilization you speak of here, difficulty sleeping, etc. Zionism is an aggressive cancer that is poisoning the world and very few nations (or their leaders) are stopping it.
My mind, my soul will not be colonized. Deep gratitude for your "medicine" today!
Brilliantly explained 👏
Thanks, Sam