I would rather escape into fantasy, than have to write about the open displays of antiSemitic behaviour we've seen in the UK and elsewhere since the attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.
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We may understand that antiSemitism is an expression of fear; the antiSemite is in a state of terror.
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Let us look at the timeline of human psychological evolution, as far as we know it.
Observing the behaviour of our children, we may see major events in our deep past which shaped our psychological evolution:
A the invention of lying; B a period of exaltation; C a huge natural catastrophe Three events which occurred in what George Frankl called the cultural infancy of our species, events which happened perhaps as much as 2 million years ago and which are marked in the behaviour of our infants now at 2, 3 and 3 1/2 years old.
The settlement at Olorgesaille, and conditions for our ancestors there, is marked by what is known as the latency period in our children between the ages of 6 or 7 and puberty at 13.
We do not know for how long the site at Olorgesaille was settled by our ancestors, nor when the site was abandoned; estimates vary wildly. However:
"In 2018, evidence dating to about 320,000 years ago was found at Olorgesailie of the early emergence of complex and modern behaviors, possibly associated with early Homo sapiens … The emergence of these behaviors … approximately corresponds to the earliest known Homo sapiens fossil remains from Africa … [It] is speculated that the site at Olorgesaille was abandoned 400,000 years ago and that homo sapiens emerged 200,000 to 300,000 years ago." Wikipedia Evidence has recently been found of volcanic activity in the area of Olorgesaille at around the time of the emergence of Homo sapiens, and we may understand that any such violent natural event would stir up the deeply hidden trauma of C, the Great Catastrophe. We may say with confidence that trauma was so devastating that our behaviour is dominated by it still. We may rationally speculate the Homo sapiens emerged having made the decision to fight - anything that they saw a threat. 60,000 years ago Homo sapiens first went to Australia, 46,000 years ago Australian megafauna became extinct; 40,000 years ago Neanderthal man became extinct. There is no conclusive evidence that Homo sapiens caused these extinctions, however the last ice age began around 40,000 years ago; our ancestors would have felt very threatened and would have looked for someone to blame; Homo sapiens who settled in Australia would have felt threatened by megafauna … And nature itself is seen as a threat and there is a lot of evidence that Homo sapiens, we, destroy nature itself, which we see as a threat.
———-- It is very difficult. Frankl's Proof: human nature is fundamentally good; all babies are born good and loving. And we know it, each one of us feels that goodness in ourselves. But then this terror arises, as if from outside ourselves, comes on us; there seem to be two common reactions to this 'alien' fear, a retreat into fantasy or rage. But the terror is within us and from us, and is a breakthrough of the repressed memory of the terror our ancestors experienced in the cultural infancy of our species at the Great Catastrophe.