Today I'm working on a piece to push back on the Monday morning quarterbacking.
The "solution" to war, & to kidnapping, can look pretty damned easy from the outside.
These 6 weeks, it's not the gruesome footage I've pored over that broke me.
It's the glib commentary.
The dehumanizing rhetoric. The warmongering from people who see this as a game. The geniuses who think they know *exactly* how to fix everything.
Sometimes the ethical thing to do isn't to rationalize. It's simply to grieve. π―
One haunting addition is the realism of videogames. Some of the videos of Hamas moving through Israel on 10/7 could've been ripped from Call of Duty - and grimly, probably will serve as the inspiration for some future, macabre franchise, a few years down the line.
I know games like CoD have been both therapeutic for some vets, and also *massively* triggering for others, so this isn't me blaming videogames for human desensitization.
Only noting that remembering what's real takes work.
@MLClark
We have many desensitizing influences in our lives today, and I can think of very few sensitizing ones.
@MLClark
"Game" exactly.
Red Team, Blue Team, all binary choices.
No real consequences for the sports fans regardless of which team they choose.
I actually liked the introduction of gamification to make some tedious or difficult tasks easier, but Life is not at all like Football.