Motus Mentis

I know I’ve said this before, but I really am going to get this blog going again now. (I may start with a post about what happened to me to make me lay off for as long as I did, or I may not; doing so might be just a bit too omphaloskeptic — and even worse for the reader, boring.)

For today, let’s pick up where I left off two months ago, which is the war in Gaza. Recently I had begun putting together a post of my own about all the bogus “pro-Palestinian” ructions we’ve been seeing everywhere. (Why are they “bogus”? Because nobody really cares about Palestinian civilians: if they truly did, they’d be screaming for Hamas to release their hostages and stop using their own people as human shields. Instead we’re just seeing people enjoy one of the oldest of human pleasures in this fallen world, namely the ecstatic feeling of being part of an angry mob howling for power and revenge.)

As it happens, though, just now I ran across a month-old post, from “The Writer Formerly Known As Moldbug”, that does a better job of this than I was about to, and more. (I have to hand it to the man; despite his having been immersed for a few years now in the warm, scented soak-bath of celebrity, he still has some zip on his serve.)

You can read his essay here. (It’s quite brief, by Moldbuggian standards.)

I’ll be back soon. It might take me a while to get the old muscles limbered up, and to rouse the Muse from her slumber, but I’ll post something — even if it’s just some brief remarks or a link to something interesting, with regularity.