The universality of Amalek

French philosopher Voltaire said that those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. It’s a profoundly perplexing phenomenon – seemingly intelligent people are thrust into the embrace of madness and words turn into atrocities.

That, to me, is Amalek. The concept I wasn’t familiar with. The kind of evil which is transcendent and irrational. The kind of evil which can be found throughout history in many texts and stories.

In theology, ponerology (from Greek πονηρός ponērós, “evil”) is the study of evil, by extension, one might say – Amalek.

Pathocracy is a government of psychopaths. The kind of government that forces people to undergo euthanasia to escape poverty, as they are a liability.  These people are so poor, sometimes disabled, that they see euthanasia as the only way out. Alas, even then, they must pay for their own demise in some dirty hospital room. Get every cent, every shekel, even in death. That is, indeed, Amalek. Energy vampirism. The alleged fact that slavery is more widespread now than in the Roman Empire. Unforgivable before God.

I sometimes wonder if this world has been condemned by God. It seems like it more and more. Hostages are sure going through hell right now. Maybe this world is hell? Who knows.

And as above, so below, the rest of society ruled by psychopaths mimics them to get ahead. That, too, is Amalek. Look at what world Amalek has created. Greed off-the-charts. Apathy. Atrocities. Animosity.

Streets filled with people walking around like zombies, bodies contorted as if they are possessed, because they either can’t afford anything else so they buy or steal drugs to tune out or are just slowly killing themselves to escape this wicked world. That, too, is Amalek to me.

No sane society would ever allow such sad scenes to be so prevalent.

All the while the same government falsely and propagandistically claims that every life is precious and there is no gradation of life based on net worth. Some of the pathocratic government officials are even going to quote scripture or other religious texts to show how deeply they care about each life, while not giving a damn about a single word they have quoted from religious texts. Shekel-worship is their only God. No morality, no conscience, nothing. Just pure evil. Golden Calf worship. That is Amalek to me, as well, albeit a more corporeal, tangible, expression than the transcendent evil.

Amalek has different names in different languages, it seems, but it describes the same idea. Reminds me of the word – demon – that is described differently in different cultures, but, ultimately, it’s the same idea of evil that can’t be reasoned with, sometimes evil imbued with metaphysical qualities. Irrationality and absurdity weaved into one, sometimes personified by humans, such as psychopaths, sometimes by demons. That, to me, is Amalek.

How can you make a population believe absurdities, which ― in time ― will lead to Amalek-level atrocities? You need to control the language by ensuring the population is indoctrinated into your way of thinking. You need to form a narrative by weaponizing the language. No government system is more skilled at weaponizing the language than a psychopathic regime or a terrorist organization such as Hamas, both ultimately controlled, even possessed, by Amalek-type of thinking.

Just cruel and unusual evil we find across the world, even though the concept of evil is a cliche one, even cartoonish sometimes, because it’s so simplistic and depends on a multitude of perspectives and factors to ascertain what is evil and what isn’t, unless, of course, we’re dealing with genocide and comparable atrocities. Then it’s glaringly obvious we’re dealing with pure evil – the kind of evil which is often scarily banal.

Amalek. The kind of evil which can’t be explained by anything other than some external, even metaphysical, aspect permeating human history and influencing, even possessing, people’s minds – that, to me, is Amalek. And while it might be blasphemous to some, it sounds like an universal idea to me, which has always been present throughout history.

I see a child dying in a hospice and a rich son of a bitch enjoying a carefree life scamming people. I don’t understand, God. I just don’t. Oh, hello, Rabbi. Have a clever quote for me to explain it away? No? Didn’t think so.

We simply name it differently in different times. Psychopathy. Demons. Ad infinitum.

Some think abracadabra comes from the Hebrew phrase “ebrah k’dabri,” and means “I create as I speak,’” while others think it comes from “avra gavra,” an Aramaic phrase meaning “I will create man” — the words of God on the sixth day of creation. The word is also meant to ward off against evil spirits. Who knows, maybe it can be recited as protection against Amalek.