Morning, CoSo. 🕊️
Today, I summarize some key regional context and ways to think about the news you're seeing about the violence in Israel and Gaza. Hamas, Iran, political spin, Palestinian struggle with local authorities, Israeli internal politics swept aside by these attacks...
It's titled, simply, "War, again", because there is enough gamified media whenever the world falls apart.
The main goal is to retain the better parts of our humanity every single time it does.
@MLClark Hmmm ... The only woman in the photo is way in the back. A translator, perhaps.
One wonders if there'd be more peace if the genders were reversed.
Not so much reversed, but there's definitely business research that suggests a "mixed" work environment is more constructive than any homogenous one. A greater range of ideas and discourse comes into play the more you bring folks from different backgrounds into conversation.
All speculative history now, though! (And funny how ST crews always bypass the morally messiest parts of our past whenever they time-travel into it...)
@MLClark DS9 did the Bell Riots -- which is coming up September 1, 2024. Ironic, because San Francisco has a significant homeless problem right now.
In general, though, I think the Trek universe writes off those inconsistences as alternate timelines.
The TNG mirror-universe novel I posited established that the mirror universe occurred in the timeline where Edith Keeler did not die.
@MLClark As for mixed work environments ...
When I was a police dispatcher in the 1980s, any time we had a family dispute or any other potential for violence I always tried to send at least one female officer (of which we had few). Male officers tended to resolve conflicts with a show of power. Female officers tended to reason the situation. Also, men won't hit a woman but they'll hit a man, so bullies tended to back down.