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.
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."
@NiveusLepus @MLClark
Excellent quote. Thank you.