Epigenetics of Despair

A survey of 1,095 registered voters from the conservative news network FOX showed that Biden is leading his presumptive Republican rival, Trump, by two points (50 percent to 48 percent).

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“When Hamas is talking about eliminating Israel, it’s talking about not killing all of the Jews. It’s about eliminating the idea.'"(When one of the panelists, Free Press columnist Eli Lake, erupted in laughter, she continued.) “Sir, can I just finish this sentence? It’s about eliminating the idea of a Jewish state, ending a Jewish state, ending an ethno-national state, and having a state more like what we have in the United States.”--Bernie Sanders' former spokesperson and co-host of The Hill TV’s Rising, Briahna Joy Gray

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Today there is an article in the NYT arguing the U.S. is a theocracy.

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The WashPo says today that the Iranians are three weeks from nuclear weaponization.

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Epigenetics of Despair

It's nice to see continuity in the culture. And in social disorder. It is as if there are basics at work that can be dealt with. That thesis that 3.5% of the population is necessary for confrontational social change is beginning to make a lot more sense.

Our current anti-Israel demonstrations on campus now remind me of a few years ago when Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were arrested at a demonstration for attacking a police car with Molotov cocktails.

Both are attorneys. Above is a picture of the esteemed counselors.

This should raise some serious questions.

Is the orderly legal function of the state seen, by its very agents, to be illegitimate? Is the education of those agents of the courts so inadequate, or the choosing of candidates of such so inadequate, that the citizenry has reason to fear them? And what laws can be broken with impunity? Are the rest of us able to break laws because of our political vision, or for some other reason we see as valid? If so, which ones?
Or, is it only some special people among us that have such privilege?
How does this lawlessness differ from the abusive lawlessness of the police they are protesting?

And, is the damage or failure of this community so great that even achieving the trappings of apparent success, that the rest of the culture admires, is inadequate? If so, what will substitute for the social and economic advances that previous cultures have viewed as their ambition and the evidence of their success?

And, as an aside, what is the implication if the 3.5% social revolutionaries are judges, legislators, and attorneys?