David, I grant you your "writing as PTSD therapy," and I deeply sympathize with your battle with depression. However, I propose to you that if you did not preface your posts with the PTSD disclaimer, no one would suspect that as the engine behind your productivity. Your writing is solid and powerful in and of itself, whether one agrees w…
David, I grant you your "writing as PTSD therapy," and I deeply sympathize with your battle with depression. However, I propose to you that if you did not preface your posts with the PTSD disclaimer, no one would suspect that as the engine behind your productivity. Your writing is solid and powerful in and of itself, whether one agrees with it or not. And it is highly obvious, if not to you then to your readers, that you are not writing for yourself. You are writing out of an obvious love for life and humanity, making the hurt from betrayal and disappointment all the more poignant. Do you see your writing as documenting an inevitable decline, or are you crying out to prevent that decline? Why can it not be the latter?
Thank you Ehud. I unfortunately see it as more of the former than the latter. In my analysis the level of human evil is just going to get worse as the population increases, and so too the level of antisemitism as well as broad indifference to it. My mystical practice has led me to identify with the desert prophet tradition. I fear that I am just a voice crying out in the wilderness and few are noticing or caring, and that little if anything will be accomplished by my screaming.
Ecclesiastes 1:17-18
"Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."
As I wrote about on Friday - https://godofthedesert.substack.com/p/2-numbers-which-reveal-the-overwhelming - the numbers of people, especially the younger generations, which have not learned the historical lessons of the Holocaust is horrifying. And I anticipate that trend to only get worse the more time passes, and the more the memories of history fade away.
David, I grant you your "writing as PTSD therapy," and I deeply sympathize with your battle with depression. However, I propose to you that if you did not preface your posts with the PTSD disclaimer, no one would suspect that as the engine behind your productivity. Your writing is solid and powerful in and of itself, whether one agrees with it or not. And it is highly obvious, if not to you then to your readers, that you are not writing for yourself. You are writing out of an obvious love for life and humanity, making the hurt from betrayal and disappointment all the more poignant. Do you see your writing as documenting an inevitable decline, or are you crying out to prevent that decline? Why can it not be the latter?
Thank you Ehud. I unfortunately see it as more of the former than the latter. In my analysis the level of human evil is just going to get worse as the population increases, and so too the level of antisemitism as well as broad indifference to it. My mystical practice has led me to identify with the desert prophet tradition. I fear that I am just a voice crying out in the wilderness and few are noticing or caring, and that little if anything will be accomplished by my screaming.
Ecclesiastes 1:17-18
"Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."
As I wrote about on Friday - https://godofthedesert.substack.com/p/2-numbers-which-reveal-the-overwhelming - the numbers of people, especially the younger generations, which have not learned the historical lessons of the Holocaust is horrifying. And I anticipate that trend to only get worse the more time passes, and the more the memories of history fade away.