Basically only the “self” is important. Now the self does include those thought of as an extension of the self, say like children or a spouse (as long as they don’t try to be independent of action or thought). Human trinkets, tchotchkes, as it were, that are there to only adorn the life of the one individual who is the center of the universe.
Hence, causes are also an extension of self. Causes are an adornment. The sanctimonious purveyors of moral superiority give themselves these grandiose airs to say that they are better than their fellow humans because they and they alone know the answers.
It is disturbing really, the amount of self-aggrandizement found within society. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is important if it does not extend the importance of the self. That includes believing in a cause, or making a cause all about how you can center yourself in the tenets.
You can see this in the actions of those who center the self, by making their perspective, their hopes and dreams dependent upon others following along with their choices. Making sure that they and they alone know the truth, culminating in the knowledge that if they are not followed then those who reject their rectitude are bound for hellfire and damnation.
That is why those who navel gaze into a cause use extremes and the vilification of anyone who doesn’t agree with them. It is the manifestation of how egocentric and narcissistic they are that they have defined an issue so to the extreme as to make it all about themselves. They are the holy ones, and those who do not believe as they do are heretics, and we all know that heretics are burned at the stake.
Take for example how the navel gazers deal with Israel. Their ultimate goal is genocide. They make no bones about it. They scream it from the highest flagpole as they burn the US and Israeli flags, wear hamas and hezbollah regalia as they march down the streets of every western nation. Faces covered of course. Because nothing says strength of conviction by being too much of a spineless coward to show your face.
It is interesting in a sociological, but not humanistic way. Why is it that Israel, among the nation’s of the world is the only nation that has to prove it has a right to exist? It has existed in its modern incarnation, for over 70 years at this point. But still the world has decided that every nation, no matter how heinous, has a right to their own destiny except the Jewish nation. Why is that?
Why is it that the “unicause” that has infected every single issue in the world is the one calling for genocide against the Jewish State? Why is it that the unicause that seems to have the world in a lather is the one nationalism, zionism, that calls for the an independent Jewish state, but at the same time calling for another independent Arab state is just fine and dandy? Apparently, the world doesn’t mind nationalism when it comes to any other indigenous people, or a nationalism of any state or nation. So why only the Jewish demand for self governance?
Why is it, do you think, that when Israel preempts a rain of thousands of rockets on her population center by the Iranian terrorist proxy group Hezbollah, the world screams that Israel is trying to drag the US into a regional and probably a 3rd world war? No mention of Iran. No mention of Hezbollah having coopted the nation of Lebanon without a care in the world, destroying the Lebanese people’s future. No mention that Hezbollah have been raining rockets on Israel since October 8? Somehow by not allowing this terrorist proxy to kill thousands of her people, Israel is the bad actor in this very egregious passion play.
There is no mention of the genocidal nature of the the Jew-hatred being spewed out of Iran, and her mouth pieces. The inculcation of the sick exacerbation of Nazi-like rhetoric that has infected the very core of western society is given a shrug and well you know, “the Jews brought it upon themselves, wink and a nod.”
What is it about the almost religious self-centeredness and certainty of the unicause when it comes to Israel? They demand that the US stop sending arms to Israel to accomplish what? To leave Israel defenseless so that Iran either directly, or indirectly through its proxies, can actually commit the genocide it continues to call for? Ask Elizabeth Warren, the Squad (well those that are left), and the other unicause Leftist progressives pols and celebs that so blithely promote this grotesque perversion of reality. What is their end game other than the slaughter of at least 7 million of the world’s Jews? They of course will tell you they are not antisemites. (They say they are upset about the destruction in gaza. But somehow they never cared about the destruction of Palestinians in Yarmouk, the apartheid system for Palestinians in Lebanon, the disenfranchisement of Palestinians in Jordan-to just name a few instances ignored by the unicause.) But the truth is that in their unicause world, their call for Jewish ethnic cleansing is for the betterment of society and the world at large. They declare themselves selfrighteous holy warriors.
This navel gazing, egocentric assuredness that somehow they, and they alone, know the answer to the world’s problems, and it is to get rid of Israel. They do not call for the end of the Iranian Mullahs who murder women if they show their hair or hang gays, nor to free Lebanon from Hezbollah which has led to the basic collapse of that country, nor to free Yemen of the Houthis who have fought a civil war where hundreds of thousands of children were starved to death, nor to free the Palestinians from Hamas whose goal is not freedom for the Palestinians people, but the creation of an Islamic state and genocide of Jews throughout the world. But only the destruction of the Jewish state will suffice in their worldview, leading to the subjugation of those dastardly Jews left worldwide who had the nerve, the chutzpah, to move out of the caste to which the unicause has designated for them.
It’s as if Jewish history has not existed for the last 3500 years, and that somehow archaeology and a factual record do not exist. To the unicause adherent, the navel gazing, solipsistic, egocentric, narcissist, antisemitism wouldn't exist if not for Israel, because in their Orwellian perspective, the last 2000 years in both the Christian and Muslim worlds did not happen. Their narrative and their narrative alone is what is the truth. Reality be damned.
Moreover, like any doctrinaire individual you cannot argue with them. Not only because they will not hear it, but because once the tenet of their worship has been debunked they move the goalposts in order to elicit another fevered dream of unrealistic proportions. They are not there to argue in good faith. They are devoid of good faith. Like any absolutist, they cannot tolerate their worldview being challenged nor can they reckon with the evil within themselves.
The problem we face as a society is when we have those in power who chose to use their status to bring into the tent the solipsistic egocentric unicause movement so as as to allow them to co-opt every other aspect of our own world. They allow these awful human beings to decide what is and is not the path that society is to take. Whether because the powerful see it as a means to maintain power, or to grant themselves a stronger hold on the future, but we can only speculate. In truth, those who allow the unicause into their tent are a threat to all in society.
Not every movement or idea is entitled to a hearing. Not every movement or idea propels society forward. And some movements and ideas are merely the sociopath’s way of making themselves the center of the story.
Societies cannot allow themselves to be used by the navel gazers and the egocentric cult like mania that flows from the abomination that is the unicause. It is not just the Jews of the world who are in danger, but western freedoms and life as we know it since the enlightenment that will cease to exist if we cater to these annihilators.
It’s not preemptive in the context of ten months of missile attacks.
Since the formation of the state of Israel, its destruction and the murder of Jews by its enemies has never ceased and never will, until all the Jews are murdered. The enemies of Israel have told them so. They will never release the hostages even if their absurd demands are met. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Plan accordingly. Act accordingly.