Human Soul
Updated 2024-01-05
2023-12-09 The Endless Dropping of Bombs Is Sabotaging Humanity’s Ability to Evolve Will we be able to overcome the wreckage we are inflicting on ourselves? The game of war is beyond human control! The lucky among us get to watch and roast marshmallows while it’s going on, hoping for the best. The unlucky ones get to watch their children die in the rubble, or get their own heads blown off. And if “a miscalculation amid tit-for-tat attacks” results in the use of nuclear weapons, well, too bad. It’s been good to know ya. We’re spectators at our own demise.
As Dennis Kucinich put it in a recent interview with Chris Hedges: “We have almost a closed-loop system that guarantees that we will continue to go to war. There is no counterbalance for diplomacy or peace. That doesn’t exist.” War, in other words, does nothing but create the certainty of more war. And peace is no more than an occasional pause as the combatants reload. And there’s no official questioning of this world —certainly not by Congress, certainly not by the media. “So there’s very little deep thinking that goes on,” Kucinich added. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-evolution-bombing
2023-11-24 Cornel West and Gabor Maté on Gaza and the Human Soul The two discuss the incomparable heaviness of the war, shared philosophies, and their love of music. “I don’t know about you,” Dr. Maté says to Dr. West, “but for me, what’s going on is one of the heaviest things, if not the heaviest thing, I’ve witnessed in my whole life. I don’t know how to compare tragedies, but there’s something about what’s going on right now that seems heavier and darker.” West responds: “When you watch precious human beings being literally killed, crushed, demeaned, degraded, day after day, it makes you think that this particular historical moment has a certain grimness and darkness that others don’t.” The two men use their complex histories with tragedy and suffering to analyze the horror of the current moment. https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/cornel-west-and-gabor-mate-on-gaza
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