Bouvard on Navigating Antisemitism and Philosemitism

There are definitely ways of steering between the Scylla of antisemitism and the Charybdis of philosemitism but it takes ingenuity, discipline and fixed goals. It's out there, but it's like spotting a bald eagle.

@truepeers I’d need another analogy then

@truepeers It couldn’t be tribalism because it’s for non-Jews. Let’s say “sentimentality”

@slooperbia50068 I don’t know

@slooperbia50068 First I've heard of it.

@slooperbia50068 Anyway, what would I say about it?

@slooperbia50068 I do not.

@slooperbia50068 I'd have to look into it before saying anything, but I'm obviously not familiar with all forms of technology, how they work, how they don;t work, etc.

@slooperbia50068 I don't know if it was ineptly worded or just represented expectations that were too high. It's also right before Purim, and tradition has it that Haman was of the tribe of Amalek. Amalek may represent a kind of Jewish Schmittianism--a concept of absolute enmity.

@slooperbia50068 Clearing someone's name is avenging them against whoever smeared them. It probably goes back to a time when there wasn't a clear difference between having an avenger and being guilty, since not being guilty mean exempt from retaliation.

@slooperbia50068 It's not like this is the only review you've ever had, is it?

@slooperbia50068 Maybe you have to trust your potential visitors to sift through it all.

@slooperbia50068 And what is greater revenge than having your opinion affirmed?

@slooperbia50068 Carl Schmitt--defined politics as the friend/enemy distinction.

@slooperbia50068 Maybe he's wrong. Maybe the sense of powerlessness lingers eve when some power is obtained.

@slooperbia50068 People do carry out acts that seem to fit the definition of "revenge"--the Jewish holiday coming in this evening marks such an act--but I suppose you could always say, well *properly,* that wasn't really revenge. It is also not necessarily the case that revenge is contemplated

@slooperbia50068 only when powerless--the mafia are not powerless when they avenge one of their family being killed. Orwell is being liberal here and missing the point that revenge is not first of all a feeling but a ritual and political institution.

@slooperbia50068 Enough, if you channel your desire for vengeance in realizable directions. Sometimes, of course, you've got to let it go.

@slooperbia50068 The feeling is second-of-all; the ritual enactment and political calculation is first of all. The feeling Orwell describes is Nietzschean resentiment.

@slooperbia50068 No.

@slooperbia50068 I don’t think so. If the threat is over they move on. Like we would do with a hurricane.

@slooperbia50068 Let me know when you come across it.

@slooperbia50068 The question of the day is whether AIs can seek revenge.

@slooperbia50068 What is the front page of AI?

@slooperbia50068 I see. None of that is clear--it is not necessarily revenge and, of course, we can't ask them.

@slooperbia50068 I think there are other possible interpretations.

@slooperbia50068 It must be because there is no human nature outside of culture.