The Children Will Lead

I just rewatched this episode of the original Star Trek and was struck by how it resonated with what we see on some college campuses these days; the only difference was the age of the children involved.
In both the Star Trek episode and real life, children seem to be getting seduced into following an evil force - the Gorgon or Hamas - by someone older who means to raise an army of followers and then wreak death and destruction on those who oppose them. The college protest leaders are calling for a global intifada, which is surely going to be a bloody affair just as the Gorgon proposed to inflict on the people of Marcus 12 who resisted the children. Just as the children in the episode were indifferent to the death of their parents, the older children on the campuses are indifferent to the 1200+ Israelis who were murdered on Oct 7 2023.
Kirk finally helped free the children from their indoctrination by showing them happy times with their parents and then the parents graves. Maybe we need to try that with the pro-Hamas crowd: show them the documentaries about the young people massacred at the Nova Music Festival or the people of all ages killed in their kibbutzes near Gaza. I wonder if that would help them find their humanity again?
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Rhino