Both-Sidesing The Gaza Issue Is A Sign Of Psychological Immaturity by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-11-10 at 21:42:13 )

Both-Sidesing The Gaza Issue Is A Sign Of Psychological Immaturity by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

You are neglecting a whole dimensionality of understanding if you just leave it at "well I can see both sides so I have no responsibility to pick one".

You can not both-sides everything. You can not live your life that way.

Yes it is possible to see both sides of every contentious issue. You are supposed to be able to do that; it is a sign of intellectual maturity!

If you can not see both sides of an issue your relationship with abstract concepts is too rigid, and you are probably lacking in empathy.

It is just a basic part of growing up to learn how to stand in other peoples shoes and see where they are coming from.

But just because you can see both sides does not mean you should live your life as though they are both equally true, or as though they both have equal merit!

If you want to have a truth-based relationship with reality it is not enough to see both sides; you have got to grapple with it and figure out which side is more truthful, which side has more merit.

You are neglecting a whole dimensionality of understanding if you just leave it at "well I can see both sides so I have no responsibility to pick one".

There is a type of personality that has a strong attraction to feeling like it is above the fray; like it is detached from the disputes and dichotomies of the common riff raff, looking down at it all from a lofty place of transcendent understanding. Such people are, without exception, insufferable wankers.

If you want to be an authentic human being, you have got to get down in the muck where the humanness is happening.

It is good to understand that all concepts are relative and that none contain absolute truth, but this necessarily means that some concepts are more relatively truthful than others. And we need to be real with ourselves about that.

And if we are honest with ourselves, none of us live our lives as though all things are the same and all concepts are equally true!

We do not get up in the morning and pour ourselves a cup of bleach, we pour ourselves some coffee every time.

When we want to go to the store we take a specific route to get there, we do not just head out in some random direction and hope for the best. We all make abundant use of relative truths in our day to day lives.

So why should issues like Israel-Palestine be any different?

There are a lot of people who have heard both sides of the argument and are content to just leave it there with a shrug, either because they do not want the social backlash that comes from from picking a side, or because they do not want to experience the cognitive discomfort of facing difficult truths and re-orienting their worldview, or because they just enjoy feeling smugly above it all. None of those positions are worthy of respect, in my opinion!!

People are dying!!

Our western governments are helping Israel kill them!!

This threatens to expand into a much larger war in the middle east, which could end up affecting us and people we know very directly!!

If you are working hard and raising kids or whatever and have no time to grapple with issues of foreign policy that is one thing, but if you are just psychologically compartmentalizing away from this issue for your own comfort that is quite another!!

That is just living the life of a coward!!

This is not even that hard!!

Israel-Palestine is easily the simplest and most straightforward conflict I have had to cover in the time I have been at this commentary gig, and the Gaza massacre in particular is even easier to understand!!

It does not take long to get lucid about this thing!!

If you have got the time and the psychological wherewithal to engage this subject then you should do so, and you should do so until you have figured out who is more right and who is more wrong, because this is very important!!

Get down off that fence and come join the rest of us here in the muck!!

Come and be an authentic human being!!

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