Conflating the mean with the end is a way of being for a parasite because, well in this case, the mean is in fact the end. But if this was going to be the case for humans then what is intelligence for? Nevertheless, parasitic tendencies persisted anyway and led up to the kingdom of lice that we live in today.

It seems like thinking beings were never able to wrap their heads around it and that is why it persisted. But it is worth thinking where would such perversion stem from for parasitism not to be called out and then neutralized? An article written by a parasite titled “The case for colonizing Gaza” can give you just the hint. For parasitic production is rarely perceived as intellectually-provoking, but rather emotionally-provoking. The result then, either positive emotions by other fellow parasites, or negative emotions with no take or lesson.

The parasite of interest here starts with two introductory paragraphs trashing the notion of “reason” and “history” before concluding their intro with ” the root cause of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians—lies with the Palestinian people themselves and their hate-soaked culture.” So, accordingly, there is no such thing as “historical development,” “cause and effect,” or room for anything other than convenience (parasitic): Palestinians were born blood and hate thirsty. Do not blame this parasite just yet for to advocate for Israel is to advocate for the “origin-less” . With “reason” now out of a picture centered around “certainty” this parasite takes a peculiar position for its nature.

I wanted to entertain a fun exercise of imagining a world where God is a parasite but naturally the rest of the article spoiled it for me. This parasite goes on to make a similar statement about Nazi Germany and fascist Japan as if Nazism and fascism, again just like everything else, good or bad, in their world, has no origin. Interestingly, however, from that point onwards, “we” becomes the dominant theme of the article: “Thankfully in the case of both Germany and Japan, we were able to save their victims and their own citizens, not only from the regimes that ruled them but from the hell we would have otherwise been forced to visit upon them had their salvation been impossible.”

Who are “we”? I am not sure. But according to the article whoever “we” is pointing at, it must be something superior, incomprehensible to anything from without. This, to me at least, is the notion of “God.” But even God can have humor: this parasite talks about how Germany was de-nazified when all that the Western bloc ever did to counteract against their own fascist tendency, in Germany or elsewhere, was a “vasectomy” whenever blood, and murder was achieved in non-conventional means. You can now guess the first verse in the bible of this parasite God, the colonizing God: Thou shalt not jeopardize the “civilizing mission.”

Which got me thinking that conforming with Western way of being and living is exactly this: we are all children of God, but God is also a colonizer. By induction, in such world Gazans are in fact children of the dark as the article says. For they chose to disobey God through the biggest sin there is: liberation.