Moving and Mazal

Let’s say there was a nation or a tribe that had a particularly lucky moving experience. They discovered America or something and lived happily ever after. I would understand that such a tribe would develop a mythology glorifying a move. But no, talking about Jews, the nation that moved from country to country, from continent to continent only to have their ass kicked in three generations or less. How lucky is that? With such a history it is astounding that people would still repeat un-reflectively that changing of a place is synonymous with mazal. Like the rest of the jewish legacy, this is another unexamined quote that people pull out of context and repeat diligently like a herd of monkeys. But there is a secondary benefit to the suggestion. When the level of impotence in helping another human being becomes embarrassingly obvious, a suggestion of a move is a nice segway away from anything that could actually be useful. Especially when in most cases the suggestion is to “move away from here”. And even when people do say “move here”, they mean, why don’t you move across the rail tracks, people are especially lucky over there.