Next week, easier and shorter posts.
In under the line for Thorough Thursday, but today’s was a tough ending to a tough week of topics.
Here, I reflect on the wide range of emotional responses to war that are sometimes masked by appeals to “pragmatic”, “rational” thinking about the “cold, hard science” of conflict.
These too are stories we tell to cope with the spectacle of violence. We are all affected by it—whether we think we have a lock on its histories or not.
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/realpolitik-and-other-highly-emotional
@MLClark have you ever seen this episode of Star Trek? It's stuck with me all these years...
@hallmarc
It really is a shame we don't have a major scifi show addressing war the same way today. We've commercialized storytelling in a way that leads to fewer risks, and prioritizes "inner conflict"-driven plots over societal-scale ethical questions. The Expanse did a great job of holding POVs in balance, but we need much more of that.