Remember to forget October 7

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We have also learned something, and this is perhaps the most important lesson: they are defeatable. 

Not only in some imagined future, but yesterday, today, and tomorrow — always. You can see it if you look closely enough. I saw it this morning in their eyes, in the way they carried themselves as they made an arrest. 

The movements of their bodies betrayed it: the stiffness, the over-gripping of their weapons, the rehearsed violence that covers over fear. Beneath the spectacle of power lies fragility, an unease that cannot be concealed. For all their weapons, their machines, their claims to permanence, they remain vulnerable, and it is this vulnerability that reveals the truth: they are defeatable.