This weekend I have an essay in the Financial Times Magazine riffing on the familiar protest chant, “No Justice, No Peace”, which is being heard again as people take to the streets to demonstrate against Israel’s destruction of Gaza
You have to dream. The resources exist. Can wills be brought to bear? Shakespeare has always had a keener sense of the human animal than any authors of the Bible. He was urban, educated, and modern, things lacking in the writers of the Bible. Our hunter/gatherer evolved sensibilities may serve us better in the coming ocean rise/climate disaster. Or not.
Israel will not tolerate a Palestinian state with any incarnation of autonomy. Palestinians will not tolerate being homeless and stateless. Reconcile. I didn’t think so. Can we heap mercy on Netanyahu or Hamas? Is there mercy for Trump or MBS? Putin anyone. Even Biden is afflicted by reflexive support for excessive violence. The lesson from 9/11 was that the proper approach was a police investigation and response. The military offered little help with the exception of diversion and enriching the MIC. Capturing and executing Bin Ladin extrajudicialy was something any group of SWAT team goons from Hometown, USA would have loved to participate in. Nice touch tossing the body in the ocean. I wonder if they cut him up with a bone saw?
Is there a justice possible for generational injustice?
Parallelish religions, which all believe great and final wisdom comes from the study of ancient texts. Sins from antiquity prevail into the future. The study of ignorance cannot help.
Our earth can handle less than a million humans before environmental degradation begins. Agriculture is by definition the destruction of natural systems and replacing it with a man made system. Religion is the natural reaction to the loss of nature and freedom. Since the fateful turn away from nature we have just fucked it all up. I fear the desert landscape that I will never see in person but is preserved beautifully in Lawerence of Arabia will become radioactive glass shards that will consume us all. What would those characters have thought of today visage? The British can be such asshats.
You have to dream. The resources exist. Can wills be brought to bear? Shakespeare has always had a keener sense of the human animal than any authors of the Bible. He was urban, educated, and modern, things lacking in the writers of the Bible. Our hunter/gatherer evolved sensibilities may serve us better in the coming ocean rise/climate disaster. Or not.
Israel will not tolerate a Palestinian state with any incarnation of autonomy. Palestinians will not tolerate being homeless and stateless. Reconcile. I didn’t think so. Can we heap mercy on Netanyahu or Hamas? Is there mercy for Trump or MBS? Putin anyone. Even Biden is afflicted by reflexive support for excessive violence. The lesson from 9/11 was that the proper approach was a police investigation and response. The military offered little help with the exception of diversion and enriching the MIC. Capturing and executing Bin Ladin extrajudicialy was something any group of SWAT team goons from Hometown, USA would have loved to participate in. Nice touch tossing the body in the ocean. I wonder if they cut him up with a bone saw?
Is there a justice possible for generational injustice?
Parallelish religions, which all believe great and final wisdom comes from the study of ancient texts. Sins from antiquity prevail into the future. The study of ignorance cannot help.
Our earth can handle less than a million humans before environmental degradation begins. Agriculture is by definition the destruction of natural systems and replacing it with a man made system. Religion is the natural reaction to the loss of nature and freedom. Since the fateful turn away from nature we have just fucked it all up. I fear the desert landscape that I will never see in person but is preserved beautifully in Lawerence of Arabia will become radioactive glass shards that will consume us all. What would those characters have thought of today visage? The British can be such asshats.