The Blogs: Retrospect-Prospect-ive Untidy Anti-Anti-Semitic Meditations in Tree-like Shape

Well, it took the writer a rather long time to finish the long-deferred ‘Hodge Comparisons’ and ‘Brexit Cabal’ online antisemitism exposes, if indeed they truly can be ‘finished.’ And yet, as as per a few days ago:

There will always be those who say that these blatantly antisemitic tropes are behind the news cycle, and of mere historical interest. But of course, it’s precisely those things that are of mere historical interest, that are inevitably most pertinent to the present day; rather as it’s those things that are most intellectual and abstruse that are most relevant to real life. One of those little mysteries of this world we live in!

It’s a mystery worth repeating.

Oh but wait, what’s all this we’re not hearing about not being self-referential?!

Well, dropping the mask, and speaking in all candidness and plainness of speech:

When a truth bears repeating, it is no longer of us, but takes on its own universality; a universality it already bore within it, but is only now coming to, and in, fruition.

Beware the delectable snares of repetition, but no more nor less so, the constantly gnawing zeal for the unfamiliar, the innovative, and the exotic.

Is Twitter’s hate-mongering naught but a Nietzschean Eternal Return, after the manner of China?

The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.

Some may say so. And yet, the gossamer breath of quite another wind, gently murmurs in the ear of those who remain as yet not fully suborned, subordinated, superordinaries, in the spirit of the Age: