Too bad we aren’t hearing them! The world is turned upside down. Kids run the schools as they wish. Cops are publicly denigrated for doing their job. Parents are accused of child abuse in gender use. Nations are accused of genocide as they fight to survive. What kind of world is this we’re living in?
Reading today’s Tor Star, 1-27-24, is to read the confirmation that we living in a world that is upside down. Read Rosie Dimanno‘s excellent column regarding the World Court ruling against Israel implying that the country is on the verge of being guilty of genocide. Do these people use only one eye when reading their research. Hamas, over and over and over, has stated their goal is the ‘total annihilation of the Jewish state.’ Who’s guilty of advocating genocide? Duh!
Crazier? The Arab League, a conglomerate of non-Jewish nations, Arab, one would think that as critics of Israel and supporters of Gaza’s populace, has not given refuge to one single Palestinian. Duh!
But if you think the World Court has slipped up…professionals, educated and experienced lawyers myopic in their concluding decisions, examine the Convoy incident written about in the Insight section at “Emergency Act.” Five letters oppose the truck convoy vs one supporting it. The nay writer speaking on behalf of a law firm, Alexander Boissoneau-Lehner, Johnstone and Cowling LLP. Consider the event, a group of demonstrators holding a city hostage to its cause, regardless the impact on people who have nothing to do with the cause. The freedom to demonstrate, free speech, free congregation of association notwithstanding, a relatively small number of people can disrupt life and business for an entire city. Add insult to injury, the court ruled that the government violated rights. The government with its departments loaded with legal professionals overlooking the possibility of rights violations. Duh!
Then the United States, home of liberty, freedom and equality, bastion to democracy. Without going into the Trump saga, teetering on the verge of national debt bankruptcy, polarized politically where national leaders are denigrated to extremes, where a national candidate incredibly leads the polls even though he is fighting nearly a hundred indictments for criminal offenses. Where a national leader walks out from his trial as the prosecution is presenting closing arguments; where a judge has to chastise and reprimand an adult defendant regarding proper courtroom decorum; where the same defendant, has totally disregard proper court respect: “In closing, [Judge] Kaplan referred to the posts and comments about [E. Jean] Carroll that Trump continued to make during the trial, noting that Trump made his “most reprehensible statement of all last Thursday.” Trump tore into Carroll after saying these words: “I’ll say it again, a thousand times.” That a defendent can show such disregard and disrespect for a sitting judge in an American court and not be jailed for contempt. The world is upside down. Duh!
We no longer abide or respect any authority. We bully our way independently as if we are the definitive authority itself. We question authority ceaselessly defending our right to do so not because we may be right or wrong, but because we feel we are autonomously independent authorities unto ourselves. No one has the right to tell us what to do! No parent, no judge, no policeman, no court, no government. After all, we have rights and those rights trump every authority around us.
“Sir,” “Madam,” “Thank you,” “Please,” “May I,” the lexicon of a bygone era. In fact, when such a phrase is heard nowadays, it jars us into surprise. What? Huh? Strange-speak! Surprising words! The world is upside down. Duh!
And the battle is not even regarded as such as we deal with racism, mysogeny, anti-Black incidents, discrimination, xenophobic events, graffiti and vandalism all in the view of freedom and rights. The world is upside down. Duh!
There is no compromise, reconciliation, accommodation, concession or understanding. It’s my way! FULL STOP. The world is upside down. Duh!
And we live in this world…a world that grows more anxious, more stressed and more disrupted every day while we pay lip service to amelioration and rectification, social services and mental health platitudes. The world is upside down. Duh!
The world is upside down. Duh!
