Questions about Charlie Kirk that even the ‘normies’ are asking
My daughter sent me this a few days ago:
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For years and years and years, she kept calling me a ‘conspiracy theorist’, and hated it any time I’d suggest the MSM and government was perhaps not as truthful as we’d all hope and expect.
Honestly, I’m not sure what’s changed – but these days, I am offline, mostly, and it’s my kids who keep sending me stuff that is challenging the narrative.
Like this three minute clip about Charlie Kirk, that sums up so much of the information that clearly shows we are all being played, and it’s just another move in the grand chess game, with the Evils moving all the pieces around the board so they can get their WW3 between ‘z-ists’ and anti-z-ists’ really kicked off.
God forbid.
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As always, *reality* changes with us, and by us.
And particularly, the efforts each one of us makes to try to overcome our bad middot, have more emuna, and to put God in the picture.
We can’t change anyone else, only ourselves.
That’s the truth.
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BH, the very intense ‘birur’ of the last couple of weeks in my own life is starting to slow down again, and I am starting to feel way, way happier again.
Not least, because I am learning the lesson that I don’t need to make other people’s drama my drama, just because they want to try and dump it on me.
I can opt out, and instead choose to focus on the people who really care about me, and who I really care about.
Thank God, there are still a few people on that list.
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For now, I will continue with the Rav’s shiur translation, and perhaps soon, we’ll return to the discussion of ‘reasonable expectations’, and how to deal with toxic people in an emuna-dik way.
I am still pondering a lot of things, and working stuff through.
But one thing I can tell you: it seems that everyone is going through a big birur in terms of their relationships right now.
As the ‘bullying power’ ramps up individually and nationally, we are all having to deal with it, and to address it.
And it can be super-challenging.
Especially, when you’re still not quite sure how much of the problem is really you, and how much of the problem is the other guy.
I am not having this birur experience with bullying you’re sharing but I am observing a shift in the collective. I see the chasm that erupted even within my own chevra back in 2020 with the “pros” vs. “antis” is beginning to bridge back together, something of a collective neuroplasticity and rewiring. I feel very moved and reassured by the warming of old friendships I thought were irreparably lost.
shortly before RH I was invited to a new-ish friend whose middot I value – warm-hearted, generous, grounded, speaks with kindness and empathy to her children. she worked as an allopathic healthcare provider for 20+ years. and without knowing my worldview let slip she’s anti-antivxxrs. looking past the obvious programming I asked her what it is about “them” that elicits such a charged reaction? instead of going off about everything wrong with them she said “well I do think they make some good points. maybe they can be spaced out and maybe they can be given later.” ah! we have a shared view in this fraught dialogue, a point of connection. wow.
a friend was at shiva last week and found a couple old friends we assumed believed the narrative of simchas torah (as they repeatedly served in miluim) in fact know we were sold out and question many other mainstream narratives. they touched on the ice wall and lost history among other things. I was floored!
though we are in the season of autumn when we shed the old, there is palpable renewal… I’m excited to witness continued flourishing!