Hanging with the Dung Beetle

(In Kafka's famous The Metamorphosis, a salesman is changed into a Dung Beetle)

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Israelis and Jews are used to being politically gaslighted, so now the heat and the glare may not bother them as much as it would us common folk. As Jews and Israelis live in a Kafkesque world of moral inversion and double standards, perhaps they are habituated to seeing Kafka’s giant dung beetle walking by them on the way to the kitchen, and now they are no longer alarmed; they simply engage in casual banter with the monster beetle, perhaps complaining about the terrible cost of groceries in Tel Aviv.

In the case of Israel’s response to an act of war being declared against it, once again, we see the double standards and the expectation of unheard-of military practices. Of course, this is always suggested by those completely unschooled in military strategy, but it still makes us wonder why what is good for the goose is never good for the gander.