War is the worst thing in the world. Westerners talk about it like it's a fucking video game, like "hurr durr, we just go in there and achieve our objectives and win," when really war means shredding human bodies to bits.
Children burning to death in front of their parents.
People holding their own guts in their hands as their life slowly slips away.
People getting trapped under rubble and dying excruciatingly slow deaths of suffocation or dehydration.
People picking up pieces of their beloved family members.
Westerners are able to hold this compartmentalized video game mentality about war because war isn't something that happens to us. We've never had bombs dropped on our neighborhoods. We've never had the experience of seeing a severed hand on the ground after an explosion and trying to figure out who it belonged to. We've never had the experience of seeing our child's shredded body after a blast and thinking about how we'd carefully helped them dress that precious body for school just hours before.
We just see the movies. The propagandistic war documentaries. The sanitized news reports.
It's not real to us. It's not personal. It's just this cutesy Hollywood image of sexy Good Guys doing flips and spin-kicking evil Bad Guys off cliffs.
You know this is true, because if it wasn't then nobody would support US wars. If westerners had an actual, visceral understanding of what war really is and what it actually means, and if they could truly, deeply grasp that the people on the receiving end of those airstrikes are human beings just like them, there's no way they'd support inflicting such nightmares upon their fellow man.
Which is why everything in our civilization is aimed at hiding that reality from us. War is made to look heroic and glamorous. Middle easterners are framed as deranged subhuman savages. The flesh-and-bone consequences of western warmongering are hidden from public view as much as possible.
They need to do this because the western empire depends on war. War is the glue that holds the empire together. They need the mass-scale bloodshed to continue, and they need the public to provide no resistance to the bloodshed. The empire cannot exist without war. Peace cannot exist without the removal of the empire.
You watch these bespectacled pundits and pampered politicians babbling about war the way they'd talk about their plans for a kitchen renovation or a trip to Paris, and you just know if actual war ever showed up on their doorstep they'd literally soil themselves. They'd never recover. They'd spend the rest of their lives in shock and trauma, because what they saw would have shaken them irreparably to their very core.
It would impact them in this way because war is the worst thing in the world. Anyone with a functioning empathy center and a truth-based worldview would move mountains to prevent war from happening. And yet we are ruled by sociopaths who actively seek it out. War is the worst thing in the world, and we are ruled by the worst people in the world.
The world will never know peace until we cease to allow such creatures to rule over us.
There is an impossibility of politics in both of the important senses of the word – no real debates between divergent perspectives, and no attempts to change the real power relations. In this hopeless atmosphere, Political Sorcery proposes:
Sorcery in the body – the power to affect and to be affected by (political) reality, through body practices and sorceries in relation to other objects, bodies, events.
The shelter still has some calming effect, protecting a little from this heavy psycho-atmosphere, but it feels like the flimsy shelter that they build in Melancholia movie for a bit of calm before the catastrophic collision with another planet. https://t.co/gu8ZXvs6p4
The calming mood of the shelter made me aware of the fear I've had in my chest for some time. My chest is warming up, fear eases slightly. Multiple fears are still pressing on the shelter.
Fear of war – many international analysts say that elections were blocked by NATO and Military Complex because the pro-peace candidate was winning. Fear of dictatorship, because of how dubious and brutally totalitarian the voting and democracy got canceled.
@nirolf_p@LegitTargets NATO ne împinge în război. Vreau PACE ca toți românii și ca ucrainienii care vor negocieri pentru PACE nu ajutoare militare https://t.co/bDSty3jYZD
"Listen to the Ukrainians," we were told. Well, here they are. And the closer they are to the frontline the more they want peace talks. The further they are from the fighting the more willing they are to keep throwing their compatriots into the gears of an unwinnable proxy war.
@RomaniaU93389 Ești atât de retardat încât nici nu știi să jignești, ce e aia tiraspolinez, ce legătură are cu orice? Mă oftic că țara se înarmează în special cu oameni descreierați ca tine.