Infinite Resources

Infinite money. Infinite cultural cohesion. Infinite capacity to absorb damage. Infinite moral strength. We have all of those things, at least that's what I think I'm hearing.

As I've watched the Israel - Hamas War begin and seen the reactions all while the Church is holding their Synod on Synodality, I'm struck by the utter inability of our leadership class to recognize that we do not have infinite resources. I'm not going to embed tweets on this post. I'm sure you have either seen the ones I'll reference or equivalent ones. The same data points are available in many different forms.

Hamas' attack was different from what we've already been experiencing only in degree. As Ben Shapiro said on his Monday show where he didn't spare his viewers from seeing the most hideous videos and images, it was the face of evil. He was absolutely right and he was right to insist we see it.

You can, like the Synod, deny the existence of evil so long as you live in a world of infinite thingies like those listed in the first paragraph. You can talk about the children in Gaza being bombed by the Israelis as long as you don't see an existential threat. Moral equivalence is easy when you're safe and fat.

Hamas' attack was raw evil, played at almost the loudest possible volume, but we've tuned out raw evil up to now, favoring inclusion and forgiveness instead, as our children have been sexualized and mutilated, as our nation has been bankrupted and our borders overrun. Don't judge! There's no reason for it when you have infinite resources.

I saw a post from Sweden where a journalist said they now have 61 no-go zones and are seeing the use of child soldiers in the country. It's the African migrants they imported doing this, of course. Here in San Diego, I tried to visit a microbrewery downtown this weekend, but ended up skipping it because all of the parking lots had drug addicts loitering around in them. Another 15,000 migrants dumped on the streets by DHS ought to help that.

There have been pro-Hamas protests across Europe, North America and Australia. One of the Aussie ones featured calls for the Jews to be gassed. 31 student organizations at Harvard have issued a statement blaming Israel for the attack.

We haven't yet reached the stage where all of this causes a sea change in our Elites, either Team Faculty Lounge or the Vatican. They still feel safe and secure enough to dismiss it all with a wave of their hands and go back to worrying about Global Warming Climate Change, migrants and white supremacists.

How much longer will that delusion continue?

Super Special Bonus Tidbit

Lawrence Summers, former president of Harvard, issued a statement saying how disillusioned he was with Harvard that the statement blaming Israel was released. That says everything you need to know. The guy who ran the place while it was decaying is surprised to discover that even dear old Harvard doesn't have infinite moral resources to absorb the filth and hate that was spewed by its professors while he was president. Even now, it doesn't seem like he realizes what happened while he was there.