Daily Shmutz | COMMENTARY / OPINION | 5/22/23

COMMENTARY / OPINION 

Power of the pen, or power of the mob   Jack Engelhard

Often, the urge to communicate is like an SOS. The mendacity is too much to bear alone. Two recent cases where the mob won over truth.Op-ed.

May 21, 2023, 1:00 PM (GMT+3) – A fellow writer tells me, “What’s the use?”

Every writer can understand this despair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald put it like this: “What’s the good of all this writing. Nobody reads me.”

That wasn’t true, of course. Plenty people read him. But for all the wonderful prose, was anything getting through?

Charles Bukowski put this thought on it: “I don’t write to save the world. I write to save myself.”

All of us who write, whether through poetry, through fiction, through journalism, can identify.

Often, the urge to communicate is like an SOS. The mendacity is too much to bear alone.

A generation of our children are being ruined through purposeful gender confusion. In Israel, Palestinian Arab school books continue to teach hate against the Jews.

It’s all a con.

We did not need the Durham report to tell us what we always knew…that Trump was the victim of the con of the century.

Four years it took him to tell us this? Still today the media ignore the revealed truth.

How, then, can we compete against such colossal mendacity?

For me, all I ask is one reader with a knowing heart.

FBI, judicial reform, Mob, Jack Engelhard

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