tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4855270099134089179..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Cost of Anti-SemitismStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42344755038218613262016-08-17T17:07:34.712-07:002016-08-17T17:07:34.712-07:00Ares is a scapegoat. Or a goat. Ares is a scapegoat. Or a goat. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57807066278945739982016-08-17T12:39:53.041-07:002016-08-17T12:39:53.041-07:00The explaination is scapegoating, and it would see...The explaination is scapegoating, and it would seem to be a two way street. You can scapegoat up or down any status hierarchy enen if it looks different each way. <br /><br />You scapegoat up by blaming your superiors for cheating, while this rationalization allows you to ignore social norms and conscience yourself. <br /><br />And scapegoating down breeds contempt and arrogance where you only look at your successes (winning!) And only see the failures of you're inferior rivals who can't get things together. You conclude your success is all your effort and their failures all their lack of effort or skill or wisdom, nothing to do with you.<br /><br />Cultures perhaps are the highest hierarchy. And incidentally America is easily humiliated on Intl standards, but we compensate like the best of them, get big guns and then feel haapy we can bomb anyone who tries to suggest we have problems we're neglecting too. Or high tech is another feel-good symbol of superiority.<br /><br />The Jews have long been ovet-achievers, everyone knows this and it makes sense they'll be scapegoated up all the time.<br /><br /> And you might understand why a little brother might admire his big brother for a while, until he realizes he'll never compete as an equal on a game he's far behind. And that's problem for the older brother, when he feels benevolent but has an enivious brother to help guide while every effort to he!p comes across as condescension and irrational resistance.<br /><br />You can see your success had put a wall with your brother and you can't even risk celebrating your triumphs without making him feel worse.<br /><br />So maybe antisemitism is like that. Psychology can help see the predicaments but there's no right way through, !ike Jesus' rich man trying to get a camel through the eye of a needle or whatever that crazy parable was. If you're rich and afraid of losing what you've won for yourself, your fear disallows you to feel empathy for those without the security you have.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-22798445165329940922016-08-17T12:33:37.103-07:002016-08-17T12:33:37.103-07:00Remember the story of the frogs of no nationality ...Remember the story of the frogs of no nationality in a pot of water, and the one about to get out get gets pulled back by the others? "We must all be the same", say some who intend to enforce the sameness on the others.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com