It's good that some people keep shining the light on this, it becomes potential energy for resistance (a statement that will surely put me on even more watchlists).
Most of my "everything you’ve been told about the world is a lie" deprogramming occurred during the 2008 recession, including the conclusion of losing my religion. The universe is a hard but beautiful place and humans are a product and reflection of it: brutal, careless, but sometimes charitable and loving. Ironically I found that this existential revelation was more motivating to at least small actions than the enthrall of the fantasy (because now there ain't no "God" whose going to lend a hand). So I ended up involved in local things that, while they don't move the needle on the grand scale, they do make the charitable aspects of that grand lie not so much a lie at the local level. Even if the Gaza holocaust desensitizes/radicalizes most of the world further and previous gains against the brutal side of human nature are rolled back, there will always be some that cannot follow that path and form the resistance.
It's good that some people keep shining the light on this, it becomes potential energy for resistance (a statement that will surely put me on even more watchlists).
Most of my "everything you’ve been told about the world is a lie" deprogramming occurred during the 2008 recession, including the conclusion of losing my religion. The universe is a hard but beautiful place and humans are a product and reflection of it: brutal, careless, but sometimes charitable and loving. Ironically I found that this existential revelation was more motivating to at least small actions than the enthrall of the fantasy (because now there ain't no "God" whose going to lend a hand). So I ended up involved in local things that, while they don't move the needle on the grand scale, they do make the charitable aspects of that grand lie not so much a lie at the local level. Even if the Gaza holocaust desensitizes/radicalizes most of the world further and previous gains against the brutal side of human nature are rolled back, there will always be some that cannot follow that path and form the resistance.