Dear Friend,
I write to you this afternoon in hopes of not just reaching you , but also to articulate a pattern of pressures that cause me to suffer inflection : how do you manage the moral weight of living in a world where nearly every purchase you make, every service you use, inevitably funds those who profit from atrocity?
Take Palantir, for instance. We may ask ourselves whether the CEO or any other figure investing in such a company becomes complicit.
Yet when I look closer, I see how impossible it has become to separate the consumer market from the machinery of power. One way or another, the money always cycles back into the hands of those who hold stock, those who direct these institutions from afar.
How then can one boycott effectively, when the very fabric of global commerce is stitched with the same thread?
And also, isn’t it uncanny, almost sinister, how such corporations cloak themselves with the promises of “updates” and “improvements”? They release their firmware, boasting of enhanced quality, end-to-end experiences for artists and listeners alike, while beneath this polished surface the ethical corrosion deepens. A veneer of progress disguising the rot.
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You are one of the brightest minds I know, and so I ask this in earnest: what directs your judgment?
Is it your faith, your integrity, or some unshakable intuition that keeps your intellect tethered to truth? For surely you must also see the monstrous reality on display : the genocide being inflicted upon Palestine for the world to witness in real time.
Here lies the tension I cannot escape: how does one sustain intellectual contention against the actions of Israel without collapsing into caricature? Without becoming either the raving lunatic hurling darts at the board, or the one accused of antisemitism outright? Where is the line between moral outrage and destructive obsession, between truth-telling and the poison of hatred?
For myself, I know it is my faith that compels me toward acts of good intention. It calls me to question not only the deeds of nations but the inner alignment of my own spirit.
Yet, faith without scrutiny becomes blind, and scrutiny without faith descends into cynicism.
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I confess to you, Friend,
that I wrestle with how to compartmentalize the atrocities. To what extent does your perspective allow you to trace the intricately- patterned-Web-of-interconnected Evils — that sustain the State of Israel?
How far does one descent into this belief that Evil is afoot? Or rather, no matter the suspicious , to what extent must I ask myself, does my Lord allow for this to exist without Reason ? I guess I am curious what matters most to you ?
In case I need to articulate what evokes my thoughts into action, in reference to this Deep-State, — •••
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—Consider, for example, how Heavy is the cost of their Steps? Recognize how entrenched becomes of one’s movements, one’s conviction to infiltrate, and reshape, or assert their dominance within political life.
Consider what External Power and internal separation might occur within the bodies of these people who benefit from atrocity? There would be no means to such ends. Do we deeply believe that this will ever come to halt?
Is it age itself that confounds men into Bitterness? What about the Circle that Swallows him Wholly ?
What begins as the rise of a cult or party becomes normalized, bolstered not only by extremists but gradually by the government, then the populace, and then by culture itself.
When people change, culture follows. When culture changes, the land itself is altered. And when the land is altered by corrupted hands, history itself becomes poisoned. This is the trajectory of human ruin: from ideology to governance, from governance to the soil beneath our feet.
And so again, I ask you plainly: how do you hold all this in your heart without being consumed by it? How do you remain human in the face of such systemic dehumanization?
Until we speak again,
C.
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