In the endless cycle of the Social Media doom scroll, I came across a meme not too long ago that illustrated the transition of man from strong-to-weak based on the times created by his predecessor.
We have been blessed to live in a time of extraordinary wealth, privilege, and living standards. We have taken for granted the things that even our grandparents would have found remarkable and landed in the world of the uppermost echelon of Maslow’s hierarchy – ‘self-actualisation’. The pro-level of human needs.
And so it is that our social media feeds explode with a plethora of hashtags championing any range of social causes with outrage and supposed impatience for change. These are the only virtues that hold currency in modern-day polite company as each of us, in turn, needs to scream louder about how benevolent and post-prejudice they have become. Surely these virtues would apply universally? All for one and one for all.
The depravity of fundamentalist religious sects in our world is nothing new and neither is the sewer of antisemitism that has exploded onto our streets in subsequent weeks.
What is indeed new is the accompanying shock of many in the West to the protests, along with the condemnations and hatred directed towards Israel and the Jewish people.
Moreover, the resulting shock emanates from a wilful failure to recognise the insidious elements buried deep within each and every single ‘Woke’ cause from #MeToo to #BLM to campaigners for the Voice.
The perpetually offended crowd of activists who make it their business to be outraged at every injustice – perceived or imaginary – almost always contain an overt or covert scent of antisemitism. No march down Swanston Street is complete without a Palestinian flag and the supposed intersection of the Palestinian struggle and whatever ‘struggle’ is fashionable on that particular day.
The grotesque acts perpetrated by a medieval death cult known as Hamas against innocent Israelis on October 7 should have served as a reminder to the so-called rich world that the hatreds and values previously considered to be confined to the pages of history are very much alive and well in our world in 2023.
As a Millennial who has only ever voted for conservative parties and values, I consider myself to be very much an oddity within my generation. When my peers would talk about the need for change and so-called social justice, my response was to apply a careful, judicious, and meticulous analysis to any such proposals and reverse the onus of proof on proponents of change to argue for their virtues rather than have me defend the status quo. The desire to conserve is the quintessential foundation of being a conservative.
The march of the Left has so enervated our institutions of the will to fight that we have the previously unthinkable situation unfolding in peace-loving Australia of Jews being barred from Circular Quay for fear of being assaulted because of their race. It’s almost as if the road to public hatred has been paved by the virtues of tolerance and justice.
We are in the fight of life for our way of life and recent events prove that no grassroots popular movement is coming to stand with us or take the knee in protest.
History’s eternal whipping boy shall once again confront the ghouls of evil with or without the enlightened fighters for social justice. Let’s hope that these dark times create enough strong men and women to weather this storm.
