Antisemitism visible among the Columbia University Administration. There are some Congrssional staffers that are not proud to be Americans. Forget the stats, forget the nuance, both those statements are bald fact, spinnable perhaps, but fact. How in the world did we get to this point?

It began, academically, with the concept of “deconstruction,” the entire purpose of which is to find fault and problems. But the idea has crept into our national ethos to the point that we no longer try to build anything, and those few that do are bombarded with by “concerns” to the point that the problem is never solved, the thing never built. I have a client that after 7 years and $25M of sunk cost is closing their plant because officialdom in their area just kept finding problems as they tried to expand their facility by about 15%. We shut down the world, doing nothing, lest we get sick – and we all got sick anyway. We seek some ill-founded concept of perfection to the harm of any form of betterment.

That’s our state of affairs. There is no pride because there is no “perfection,” – antisemitism takes ugly root because absent perfection someone has to be blamed. We have become experts at finding problems, issues, shortcomings and fault, but in the process, we have lost our ability to make or build anything. We are all bureaucrats. “I’m sorry, you can’t do that because you 27/b-9 is not properly filled out.” We so desperately want to fix the world while standing in the way of actually doing so.

We live under an ugly form of oppression, not one that puts us in concentration camps, but one that makes sure we know that no matter what we do, it is not quite good enough.

The bottom line is we all see the problems in the world, and we all blame someone, anyone, other than ourselves. That’s how prejudice and oppression is born. It’s not born of hatred; it is born of our own innate sense of superiority and utter lack of humility. Thus, we criticize instead of compromise. Thus, we prevent, but never permit. Thus, we stand in the way rather than move forward.

We have to get past this or we are doomed. Maybe, just maybe the way to solve the problem is not “out there.” Maybe you need to start in your own heart and mind. Don’t worry about their mistakes, worry about your own. Don’t worry about their prejudices, worry about your own. And then go make something instead of criticizing what someone else is trying to make.

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