I was feeling a little out of it yesterday--gaining a serious allergic reaction to Jingoism, methinks. All the people wavering between "let's goooo!" and "that's it?!" had me sick to my stomach, but I know the armchair-warrior eagerness for war is just another form of trauma.
Here was Tough Times Tuesday: a reflection on how much we need to adjust to life under climate change.
Today's piece will come later. It's a tough one, on how we've abused the memories of the dead.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-myth-of-climate-havens-is-bursting
@MLClark I'm not sure that armchair eagerness is necessarily from trauma. It looks a lot more like excitement most of the time.
@AskTheDevil @MLClark War is sport to some people. Rah- Rah go team, kill the bad guys!
It's an ancient human condition, built out of fear and tribalism. We see it in the crusades, we see it with the greeks and Romans.
The Term Barbarian after all originally meant "those who do not speak greek"
Ironic that no matter how you define it we live in quite the barbaric age.
Excellent quote. Thank you.
@NiveusLepus @MLClark There is all that, isn't there.
@AskTheDevil @MLClark
In a time where the media grants a distance to war, and allows so easily for the other side to be dehumanized I remember the words of Paul Farmer...
"It is the idea that some lives matter less that is a source of all evil in the world."