Matt Haig's The Humans (2013) uses sci fi, 'speculative fiction', for what it does best: reveal to us how lethal human beings are and how we need to control technology before it turns us into monsters and reduces planet Earth to … Gaza. This time it's a simple tale of the seductiveness of 'going native' faced with totalitarian alienation, and genocide by the latter against those oh-so seductive natives.

The US has become ground zero for gaylib, its rise following WWI, turbo-charged by WWII … and its slow decline following the dramatic AIDS crisis, which swept the world in the 1980-90s and lingers on today, proof positive that the 'gay lifestyle' is toxic, pathological. Three memoirs provide snapshots of the life and death of gaylib:

Meet Joe Black (1998) is basically a 2 1/2 hr anecdote, where an angelic Brad Pitt, the angel of death, comes and saves the day by impersonating an IRS agent investigating and exposing the vile young suitor Drew, as Brad takes fiancee Allison's father (Anthony Hopkins) to heaven. Brad quotes money-grubbing Drew: You can't avoid 'death and taxes'.

Yes, Death gets us all in the end, smokers and nonsmokers,

How can a cat be alive and dead at the same time?

I love how science has rediscovered religion. Leaving aside the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, the universe itself is conscious. In the beginning was consciousness -- inner light. Then there was outer light, etc. Mind you it took billions of years, but what's that in divine reckoning? Religion was the first 'science', followed by astrology. Now both despised. How times have changed.

Peter Beinhart, Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza: A reckoning, 2025.

My first thought on seeing Beinhart's title was: Argh. More Jewish angst, holier-than-thou hand-wringing, but leading nowhere. Half-way through I had completely changing my mind. Angst, yes. But lots of meat to chew on, ok, spitting out some grissle, but it was mostly intelligent, informative, and even inspiring (for a goy no less). Beinhart marshalls statistics that confirm my own extreme anger at not just Jews but anyone who does not mobilize themselves to fight this ongoing, LIVE, genocide.