The narcissism in the West of thinking that they/we can somehow make Palestinians no longer violently anti-Semitic is another kind of narcissism. That's the kind of narcissism we suffer from. Thinking we're so special that we can make other groups of peoples with decades of blood feuds somehow think differently using our logic, values, a…
The narcissism in the West of thinking that they/we can somehow make Palestinians no longer violently anti-Semitic is another kind of narcissism. That's the kind of narcissism we suffer from. Thinking we're so special that we can make other groups of peoples with decades of blood feuds somehow think differently using our logic, values, and principles. Some problems literally just have to bleed themselves out on a long enough timeline until one side decides they've had enough. That's how I see this conflict ending, and it's not likely to get to that point within my lifetime, but it won't stop generations of western narcissists into thinking they know enough to overcome that sort of thing with western values and logic. You can't reason people out of a thing they didn't reason themselves into. Only time combined with sustained loss can cripple culturally emotional motivations, and it usually takes a good while of both.
I see American narcissism much more broadly and deeply than you describe here, but I agree that our hubris regarding involvement in foreign affairs has been part of it.
The narcissism in the West of thinking that they/we can somehow make Palestinians no longer violently anti-Semitic is another kind of narcissism. That's the kind of narcissism we suffer from. Thinking we're so special that we can make other groups of peoples with decades of blood feuds somehow think differently using our logic, values, and principles. Some problems literally just have to bleed themselves out on a long enough timeline until one side decides they've had enough. That's how I see this conflict ending, and it's not likely to get to that point within my lifetime, but it won't stop generations of western narcissists into thinking they know enough to overcome that sort of thing with western values and logic. You can't reason people out of a thing they didn't reason themselves into. Only time combined with sustained loss can cripple culturally emotional motivations, and it usually takes a good while of both.
I see American narcissism much more broadly and deeply than you describe here, but I agree that our hubris regarding involvement in foreign affairs has been part of it.