Nothing is OK and Everything is Normal
Nothing is OK and Everything is Normal
Deep down, do you still believe everything will be OK?
Normally at the start of every school year there is a teachers strike over low pay. It’s been like this for as long as I can remember. Every year, as September looms, parents who have just spent 2 long and brutal months with their kids know there’s a good chance school won’t open on time.
It’s not OK. It shouldn’t be like this. We pay our taxes and there’s no reason teachers should strike over low wages, year after year. It’s not OK, teachers should be more respected and valued. But it’s just the way things are. It happens normally, as a matter of course, every August.
Everybody knows it’s always going to be like this. It’s a given. There’s nothing we can do about it. As they say, the things we cannot control we must accept. It is normal to accept things you cannot control, healthy even.
This year too there is a teachers strike, but this time it isn’t over pay, it’s over dead hostages. Hostages that survived for 330 days, but executed on Day 331 with bullets to the head. Parents eulogizing their children. It’s not OK. But it’s normal here now. So many parents have eulogized their dead children over the past 11 months that it has become normalized.
Murder, mutilation, rape, hostage taking: these are not OK. And they are also not abnormal.
If nothing is OK and everything is normal, why should anyone care? What did you think, that this was a normal house? Did you think that hostages survive? Did you think children outlive their parents? Do you think you can protect your children?
Did you ever think you’d see Israel tear itself apart as it’s being torn apart by savages? Deep down, do you still believe everything will be OK?
It’s OK. You can still believe that everything will be OK if it makes you feel normal.
Incidentally, when news of the executions broke, the Shekel lost 0.7% of its value. Six dead hostages led to a 0.7% drop, not a 6% drop. By the end of trading, the shekel showed signs of recovery, meaning currency traders didn’t think this was abnormal. The market closed, the currency traders got into their nice cars and drove off into the sunset— per normal.
It’s not OK, but this is totally normal. Blood is a commodity and a currency. Tomorrow the market opens again.
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