Monday, September 28, 2009
Thinking
People talk about thinking, but for my part I never think except when I sit down to write.” I can’t find these words in my copy of Montaigne, but I agree with the thought, whoever might have formed it. And it’s not because writing helps me to organize my ideas or reveals how I feel about something, but because it actually creates thought or, at least supplies a Petri dish for its genesis. (From Steve Sailer). That is why I write this blog.
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I hate to use you as a character in fiction again, but this popped into my head a few nights ago at work. I was simply going to suggest you hold a potluck, but this short story wrote itself.
(Scene opens on a beach near Tel Aviv, around 5 pm with a large bonfire going in the background.)
J: I would like to thank all of you for attending tonight, for tonight we are going to begin to purge our country of one of the biggest pieces of non-Kosher filth that defiles us in the sight of God and our ancestors.
Right now in Israel we as consumers take the time to check our meat for blood and we employ a small army of rabbis and Kosher-inspectors to check that our food meets standards for ritual purity, and yet for all of this checking we willfully consume something that all of our ancestors would consider non-Kosher: Ha'aretz!
How can we honor our ancestors by keeping their ritual purity laws, while reading a paper that seeks to eliminate Israel and its people as their descendants? How will we honor our ancestors if we have honored the wishes of Ha'aretz and passed from History?
How can we criticize gentiles for reading anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist material online when we pay good money from our checks every month to have such anti-Semitic writing delivered to our front doors seven days a week?
We can't criticize the gentiles for doing the same things we are doing can we? Of course, all honest men know that the answer to that last question is no.
So tonight we will violate the Kosher laws that everyone in Israel, including liberals, strain so hard to follow, while we exorcise our minds and families of the greater uncleanness that separates us from God and threatens our future.
Originally I planned to burn a reporter from Ha'aretz on the large fire you see behind me, but I was contacted by the Israeli police and told that human sacrifices have been banned under Jewish law for several thousand years.
As such we had to release the reporter back to his family.
(crowd offers weak laughter, someone in the back boos)
Instead I have had all of you bring your last copy of Ha'aretz with you, and had you promise to cancel your subscriptions to that fishwrapper. We will sing our national anthem, and then we will throw the papers into the fire.
After that we will eat. I hope all of you enjoy the clams, shellfish, ham sandwiches, and shrimp that each of your fellow attendees have brought to our potluck tonight.
Let us begin!
Ha.
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