Today's Monday Media Review is a rough one.
In it, we discuss a recent incident at an Israeli school, and a recent documentary about a settler youth cult in the West Bank.
It should be much easier to talk about how young people have been victimized by this war, but because propaganda has trained people to rationalize the deaths of "enemy" children, it's harder than ever to talk about how this war poisons everyone involved.
And yet, that's precisely what we need to do.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/what-we-have-done-to-our-children
This is heartbreaking.Nothing has rattled me more these past months than the systematic dehumanization. Thank you for this.
I thought 9/11 had prepared me for Jingoism, but I was *not* prepared for how many were eager to take up the mantle of keyboard warrior, reading each new story of human atrocity solely in terms of how it would help or hinder the cause, then leaping right onto multiple forums to spin the cycle however they felt it needed to go.
It's cold-blooded, but also represents a body of people who truly think that this is the best way to "win the peace". We're all just manifesting our trauma here.
@MLClark
This is not the path to peace. This is the path to unending war. You're 100% on the mark about this being an expression of trauma. How do we heal?