Who ‘tells’ what happened — “our story” and how “we tell it”
and the difference it all makes . . .
Is this the story? — really depends on who is telling the story
When Israel was in Egypt’s land
Let my people go
Oppress’d so hard they could not stand
Let my people go
Refrain:
Go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt’s land
Tell old Pharaoh
Let my people go
Who’s telling the story and to whom is it being told?
“the telling”
Excerpted from: Gorbachev’s reputation rests on the world’s amnesia
The Washington Post, August 30, 2022 / George F. Will
Secretary of State George P. Shultz in 1987 explained to Gorbachev the world’s transformation from the industrial to the information age, making the foundational Marxist distinction between capital and labor obsolete because “we have entered a world in which the truly important capital is human capital — what people know, how freely they exchange information and knowledge.”
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What will we will “tell” the future
(our past – our future)
Sapir:A quarterly journal of ideas for a thriving Jewish future
Prophetic Fervor and the Jewish Writer / VOLUME EIGHT WINTER 2023
The decline and fall of everything has been a Jewish study since there was an everything to decline and fall / HOWARD JACOBSON
A new prophecy for our times is what we look to Jewish writers for now. A flurry of art, hot from the mouth of God, as alive to the teeming world of men and women as were Jeremiah’s denunciations, but no less admonitory, perhaps a little less Chicago and Newark street-smart this time around, and a little more “old European” in the Singer style, or “new Israeli” in the tragic manner of David Grossman, but still manic in its high-mindedness, blasphemous, hilarious, and above all unapologetic. The great prophets knew what to say to the back-sliding Jew, long before the back-sliding Jew had Zionism as his excuse. They cannot be a light unto other nations who denigrate their own.
