In the course of our (approximately, 1,000) essays, we have admittedly, for the purpose of emphatic articulation of the respective, contextual themes, taken the liberty of conveniently pirating vocabulary from the medical arts, for their analogical utility. Thus, “pathological,” for worshippers of instruments of lethal potential (guns), “metastasize” for the spread of negative phenomena (such as prejudice, ignorance, and anti-democratic memes), “anemic,” (for baseless, proclaimed theories), “virulent virus,” (slanderous accusations), “pandemic” (for the spread of popularly held, offensive and meritless, opinion) and “surgical incision,” (for the specific correction of “too-broad” judgments), as well as other usefully, expressive, terms, used in the medical lexicon. Having fortuitously, to date, escaped sanction, from the A.M.A., we would, brazenly, hazard the employment of yet another, contextually utilitarian, medical term, for the purpose of analogical emphasis, “extravasation.” It is our understanding that the medical term, “extravasation” refers to the leakage or emergence of a substance (usually, blood) out of its previously, contained space, into the surrounding area.
In this writing, we, once more, have utilized medical terminology as a useful analogy. We refer to the sudden emergence of previously, reclusive, unobtrusive societal outliers, and malcontents, into the public as conglomerated hordes of individuals evincing nihilistic opposition to reason and democratic equality, and lacking in moral compass. We are interested in the dynamic cause for their dangerous, mass emergence, viz. their sudden “extravasation” from a static condition of relative obscurity to an organized and daily publicized, societal threat to Main Street, America. With regard to the clinical problem, the treating physician is tasked with the discovery of the medical etiology of the dangerous condition. We, too, have deliberated as to the cause of the sudden onset of the analogous social pathology and have concluded that it requires an effective catalyst, whether a human being or an event.
Simplistically, but, necessarily, observed, the early childhood rosy, “Mary Poppins” worldview, empirically, morphs into a more maturely, circumspect perception of a nuanced mankind. We, before long, come to realize, experientially, that, in contrast to our normal socialization and mainstream perception of and adherence to the moral compass, there, disappointingly, are a great many human beings who choose not to share our perceptions of personal and societal rectitude. Most of the latter are insular, finding disappointment in their desultory and unenlightened life; these, become vocal detractors of our sense of communal responsibility, interdependent morality, and equality. Their limitations in outlook and personal direction can be productive of bitterness and the defensive need to find an objective ameliorating, causation, often productive of a hatred against minorities, black and Jewish, transgender, etc. Unhappily, this varied catalog of the discontented is numerous, but, other than the felt opportunity, on occasion to vent their spleen, remain insular, and disconnected, thus powerless.
It takes an effective catalyst to cement the amorphous horde of the ignorant and discontented, into a conglomerate, capable of evincing an impactful disruption of civil society. The cement binds together the diverse sources of rebellious discontent, being the commonality of (assorted) grounds for discontent (social, financial, personal, etc.). In the recent “American Tragedy,” (apologies to Theodore Dreiser) the (human) catalytic agent was the person and bizarre, unconventional behavior of Donald J. Trump. The huge and negatively impactful horde of ignorant and discontented citizenry was cemented into a unified conglomerate with cultish, obeisance toward the perceived, unconventional, and anti-establishment President, Donald J. Trump.
To encapsulate the dynamics of this phenomenon by way of the lingo of trite slang, the persona and immoderate behavior of Donald J. Trump was the productive catalyst for the action of the morose and unruly citizen, “termites coming out of the woodworks” or “extravasating” to the surface and participating in Trump’s four years of shameful damage to our Nation, and its upright citizens.
The Nazi-style, anti-Israeli-anti-Semitic, bloody, invasion, by Hamas, supplied the apt dynamic catalyst for the public emergence of latent anti-Semites and unconscionable, hate-based, acts of violence against Jewish people and synagogues. This identified, species of emerging, or, extravasating, termites from the woodwork, has continuously perpetrated tragedy, on the Jews for 2,000 years. Since Constantine’s Holy Roman Empire, there has eternally, been a human or some contrived, random, and conveniently perceived, catalyst for killing Jews, viz. plagues, poor harvests, Torquemada, Adolph Hitler, Christian White Nationalist Militias, and so on, eternally, ad finitem, ad nauseam.
The recent, horrific Hamas travesty has, as was historically, capable of prediction, catalyzed and elicited acts of anti-Semitism, just as the bizarre ascendancy of the egocentric and autocratic Trump to the Oval Office, lured the bigoted cockroaches out of the proverbial woodwork. Moral citizens need to be on their guard and do their utmost to remain aware of any and all perceived, malicious infestations awaiting an effective stimulus for their timely emergence and unprincipled action.
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