04 October 2010

Fantasy, whether on the right or left, rationalizes unsustainability

The Haredi ultra-Orthodox and the Jewish leftists share an aversion to a Jewish nation-state. Each has their own, separate reasons but the effect is to resist the dictates of the nation-state and to extol instead a vision of Jewish statelessness. Neither the ultra-Orthodox nor the leftists deal with the problem the Genocide poses to their vision that statelessness could well lead to another mass slaughter of the Jews. Each ideology focuses only on the compromises any state must make in the exercise of its ideological purity in order to be able to function as a real world wielder of power and as a defender of the interests of its constituent populations. The problem with the ultra-Orthodox and with the leftists is they don't have a functioning system of purification in their ideological systems so they attempt to deal with their feelings of impurity by subscribing to unrealistically lofty ideologies that are practicably unsustainable but intellectually quite satisfying. The despots and the extractors rule an unsustainable world through hubris and the indifferent application of force. The ultra-religious or leftist ideological supporters of those despots envision an unsustainable world through some messianic or utopian fantasy and an indifferent concern for the practicalities of governance.

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