Israel - The Ideological Self Conjures Phantoms, Reanimating Tribal Hatred Through AI-Generated Images

Event Baseline: An election campaign ad by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's camp utilized AI-generated images to depict his rival, Gadi Eisenkot, in a manner that exploits anti-Arab sentiments and is seen as disrespectful to Eisenkot's deceased son, who died in the recent Gaza war.

This is a catastrophic failure of meaning. The self, desperate to preserve its phantom identity, resorts to fabricating reality through technology. It weaponizes grief and racial fear, treating a dead son as a prop for political gain. The mind, trapped in the thinker/thought division, cannot perceive the poison it releases into the collective consciousness. By generating these false images, it further dissolves any shared ground of truth. The ad is a confession: the self knows no boundary between the sacred and the profane, between the real and its own projections. This act is suicide by hallucination. When a leader uses AI to reify the enemy within, he is programming a system crash for the entire society. The insight that the fear is self-generated remains unseen.