Hamas War

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Struck by the Mesorah bug, oy

***Here's moze's continuation of the bug!

The one and only Cosmic X struck me by the Mesorah bug. I guess it was to distract me from Mt. Zion's danger of being given to the Vatican.

The idea is to comment on the following which was published by Ha'aretz:
The Jewish public's pessimism* can apparently be ascribed to the state of affairs today, which leads an overwhelming majority of 74 percent to expect that even if Israel withdraws from all the territories beyond the Green Line and the occupation ends, Palestinian violence will not stop and may even intensify.


*Pessimism? emphasis mine
It's pragmatic realism! Just listen to what the Arabs say; they aren't being shy. They want us all dead and the country gone, and that includes Tel Aviv and Kfar Shmariyahu!

Now, I'd like to know what Moze has to say.

7 comments:

Esther said...

No, the arabs are NOT being shy about what they want. Why won't anyone take them at their word?

Batya said...

Thanks, I should have struck you.

Anonymous said...

Batya,

The Mesorah Bug (mb) caught my eye. It could be valuable. There's something there for sure.

Assuming the mb rules are flexible then one could send the mb to more than one peer. Say three or five, for example. Then when someone, who already had the mb posted, receives it again they could "repost" the mb-item, that is; repost their original on their weblog. I know that seems potentially redundant but a webloggers' latest posts would weave in and out of any mb reposts.
That would keep the "idea" represented by the mb alive in many places simaltaneously. See what I'm getting at? All you do is set a time date to stop the mb. The date could be anything, a month, two months, a week?

Even if the mb gathers conflicting opinions, all of the opinions still promote the "idea" by sheer verbosity. It could keep an idea in prominence, alive.

Best,
JTP/SmartyJones

Anonymous said...

Batya,

One more thing, and to the point. The Haaretz article represents that mechanism again. The repetitive negativity directed at the population.

You have to take this in stride because it is like a trick. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you or anyone else constantly reflect the negativity, expressed by entities of authority, then one risks being discounted as a malcontent. That is an amoral aspect of opinion generating.

Here in the states I notice that the LeftWing politicians are appearing often in media with their subtly "America is bad" point of view. Everytime I turn on cable news one of them is there with their grind, though the War vote was virtually unanimous. To me it is subterfuge on a grand scale and it is very much representative of the moment, the return to normalcy for lack of a better term.

I can't prove that this is a deliberate trend in Wash.D.C. reporting but it is real and having an impact.

But my point is that I notice it aggravating me. If I'm not careful I'll be contentious instead of shrewd.

I am also referring to my email where I pointed to necessary contradiction and tactics. That is; necessary imo.

Respectfully,
JTP

JoeSettler said...

To JTP:

One slight error I made initiating this Mesorah Bug (as it is now called) was seeding it to only one recipient.

Clearly, to prevent it from failing at any point (to early in the game at least) it requires more than one addressee.

Perhaps this recipient would feel free to expand the rules and direct it to more than one peer.

Batya said...

Moze promised to continue, but she's traveling now. I trust her.

Batya said...

Moze struck back
http://mozemen.blogspot.com/2005/11/struck-by-muse.html