Silliness is “so” pre-Oct. 7. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, nothing concentrate your mind as an existential crisis.
In case I used words you can’t understand, the original quote from the 19th century was “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully”, and in case you skip the news, the yishuv in Eretz Yisrael may be facing destruction, and the American Jewish community may be facing catastrophic dislocation due to increasing open and politically potent anti-Semitism.