grinninfoole

I'm really sad about the killing in Israel/Palestine following Hamas's pogrom last week. Quite aside from the shock of massacres and brutality, the war-time polarization overtaking how everyone is discussing the situation is reminding me of the sad truth that sanity is a collective endeavor. I don't want to support Hamas or the IDF as they butcher children, but US foreign policy has taken Israel's side over the past 75 years, and I can't escape that I'm helping to pay for it. And, of course, if we could bomb our way to peace, we would have already done so. I fear being an accomplice to Netanyahu becoming a modern-day Hadrian, and doing to the Palestinians what the Romans did to the Judeans in the first century. It's awful being enmeshed in a society where so many of the people in it with me want war.


In other news, earlier this week I met up MaMEd for the first time in a months and saw Stop Making Sense again. I really love it, and it was good to get out of my shell with my oldest friend. Today, I saw the Cumberbatch-as-creature version of the 2016 National Theater production of Frankenstein a the Amherst Cinema with Stoic and Suave. It's pretty good. Then I got my Covid booster, flu shot, and pneumonia vaccine.