A meditation on complicity and moral responsibility as genocide unfolds in real-time. When the full truth emerges, what excuse will we have? A Coming Reckoning
I don’t think there will ever be a reckoning, the collusion of the West is too deep. Most of the institutions that could have leverage have been weakened, politicians compromised and the masses succumbed to Israel’s weapons grade Hasbara.
On our darker days we're right there with you - it feels hopeless. The pattern you're describing is real: institutions hollowed out, politicians bought or cowed, and a propaganda operation that's frighteningly good at its job.
But we keep coming back to something Chomsky said. We can give in to pessimism, which more or less guarantees the worst outcome, or we can act as if something better is possible and leave the door open for it. The first is a closed loop. The second at least gives us a chance.
And the history sits with the second one. Every power that looked permanent eventually ran into people who refused to stop pushing. Apartheid South Africa looked unanswerable in its day too. It fell because enough people declined to accept that it couldn't.
We owe it to ourselves and each other not to give up.
I don’t think there will ever be a reckoning, the collusion of the West is too deep. Most of the institutions that could have leverage have been weakened, politicians compromised and the masses succumbed to Israel’s weapons grade Hasbara.
Hello Baz,
On our darker days we're right there with you - it feels hopeless. The pattern you're describing is real: institutions hollowed out, politicians bought or cowed, and a propaganda operation that's frighteningly good at its job.
But we keep coming back to something Chomsky said. We can give in to pessimism, which more or less guarantees the worst outcome, or we can act as if something better is possible and leave the door open for it. The first is a closed loop. The second at least gives us a chance.
And the history sits with the second one. Every power that looked permanent eventually ran into people who refused to stop pushing. Apartheid South Africa looked unanswerable in its day too. It fell because enough people declined to accept that it couldn't.
We owe it to ourselves and each other not to give up.
Agree with all that but when Bush and Blair face the prosecutors at the ICC in The Hague get back to me.