Okay, CoSo.
I wrote a piece to offer some deeper and important history surrounding the latest mess in Canadian Parliament.
Yes, the Speaker has resigned.
But that's where the danger begins: when we have an easy target, which allows us to avoid thinking about the historical illiteracy that underpins these errors and allows old wounds to be opened and leveraged in current wars.
History is always a casualty of war. But if we can lessen the size of the wound, we should.
https://onlysky.media/mclark/war-makes-us-terrible-historians/
Thank you so much for this.
Oh, Lise. Thank you so much for sitting with it.
I figured out a small piece of my sadness while writing it.
There is a war on.
And so much of what's written within it, or said around it, doesn't take the stakes seriously enough. Doesn't account for how much war changes us, even after all the lessons supposedly learned from wars this century alone.
We keep losing our humanity to gamified treatments of the most crucial themes.
So again--
Thank you for sitting with it.
And with me. 💙