The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Hamas is a Figment of Your Imagination What is Hamas? Fuck if you know. Yes, it’s true. Hamas is a figment of your imagination. I understand that your impulse is to ask about decapitated babies and mass rape and bearded men hiding in the treetops, but it will do no good. Those are also figments of your imagination. Now, I don’t necessarily blame you for these fever dreams. Hamas is all you hear about from aggrieved Zionists and corporate media (two groups with no meaningful distinction). Of course you’re fixated on Hamas. That’s the point. The fixation stops you from thinking about everything else. (“Everything else” includes wholesale slaughter of civilians, shelling of schools and hospitals, arrest and murder of medical personnel, chemical warfare, ethnic cleansing, homicidal rhetoric, forced starvation, and systematic dehumanization. In short, a genocide.) I’m not here to explain what Hamas is or how Hamas operates. I can tell you that it is in fact real even as it is also

  the real dangers of the virtual life becoming rosencrantz and guildenstern and losing our way EL GATO MALO i recently came upon this tweet about the increasing prevalence of a sort of basic functional incomprehension and found it thought provoking. i think this idea can be extended and provide some useful insight into just how things get so out of control. first off, take a read. pay particular attention to the part about a previously unknown sort of ignorance. there’s going to be a quiz. leaving aside this baseless calumny against 10 year olds (as all the 10 year olds i knew could have given you chapter and verse on juptier and the milky way), this is a really interesting set of nested takes and it got me to thinking: indeed, much of childhood as i recall it was experiential. it lay in picking things up, interacting with them, exploring, climbing, riding, falling. it was all a bit of a mess, but it was an interactive mess full of stuff to figure out, games to invent, daily proto-soc