In an episode of the medical drama “House,” the patient at the center of the mystery is a brilliant physicist who has intentionally made himself dumber.
He takes a careful mix of the drug dextromethorphan and alcohol every day, which lowers his IQ — but only while under the influence of the cocktail.
He does this because he finds it less stressful and less lonely to live in ignorant bliss.
The Gaza discourse is filled with such people.
Over the weekend, the journalist David Collier revealed that the Palestinian child who’d been used by nearly every major news organization as the living representation of the mass starvation of Gazan children was in fact suffering from cerebral palsy and hypoxemia, plus apparently a genetic disorder.
The ubiquitous image of the boy’s skeletal frame in his mother’s arms is indeed heartbreaking.
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