The Israel Supporter And The Sandwich CAITLIN JOHNSTONE DEC 31

 

He who by nature is coarse and violent, and who by dint of resolution becomes gentle and amiable, often becomes capable of great and difficult undertakings in the service of God; because that very stubbornness, or that natural obstinacy, used in a good cause, knows neither defeat nor discouragement.
St. Ignatius of Loyola

     

I first heard about the American expat playwright in Berlin, C.J. Hopkins, in November 2020, when someone sent me a link to his essay The Germans Are Back! in which he wrote the following:

The danger is that you concede an argument about a personality or an event, then find at some future point that you’ve accepted new systems and structures that are far more broadly applicable than you noticed at the moment you accepted the new rules. Everyone of every political persuasion should see the weapon on the table, because it’s going to be pointed at you and yours: libertarians, anti-war leftists, populists, paleocons, others too weird to name. Outliers. If your votes and your views fall outside an extremely narrow band of corporate-state “centrism,” what follows is about you.

So.