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They have elected hamas to plunder them (represent) so instead of going after warriors they slaughter innocents. Its all dog snd pony and bern trying to broker deals for my lifetime but iran (shiite dogs) want israel blotto. You get what u vote for look at us here its fubar. You think these 20 million plus invaders our government is facilitating entry and settlement here are coming for a ted talk or burning man conference? Sit around campfire and kumbaya? They are here to take. Its a war and everyone here buys into all these distractions better get your own house in order.

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You've expressed something so important and done it well. But i can't help wondering if there are several strands of observable things being interpreted before they've been adequately described. Descriptions are more likely represent things outside ourselves, while interpretations reveal our relationship to those events.

There is an "entertainment" feature to events reported and i am aware that western economic systems have Co- opted the means of informing people as a way to generate profit. Horror and nonsense are "stocked" indifferently for consumption. But is this a collaborative determination to reduce the value of human life, even specifically Palestinian (or Arab) lives? I am not sure that is a clear case. The invasion of Ukraine wears on. Images and discussions of that atrocity have faded from center stage but the nightmare of living in Ukraine, being a refugee outside it, all continue.

I have no issue with your critique of the strange capacity we seem to have of distancing ourselves from the mirrors that beg us change ourselves. But I've worked with students who experienced severe trauma at the hands of their own parents. Dissociation is a means of survival. I purpose that it is not simple callousness or evil lack of empathy or villainous de- humanizing of the victims of these horrors that drives MOST ordinary people to distract themselves with the banal or the silly. For most people their empathy is still overwhelmed in the face of pain they believe they can do nothing to stop and they are simply dissociating. You, and other strong people, may have the endurance to tolerate the information because you believe in your own ability to fight back. Here you are writing after all. But for those raised to believe they make no difference in the larger picture, taking an interest in frivolous things is a respite from that trapped, helplessness that has infected the minds of most of humanity for most of our history.

If we are to reshape a human made existence that serves human needs ethically, shouldn't we first accept humans where we are, with what we are? We are a mess. The world we create is a mess. Nothing is cut and dried, simple, or solvable in some imagined steady state answer. We are processes in perpetual relationship. It's those relationships that need repair. Repair cannot begin with rejection, of ourselves or one another, no matter how ugly or dissappointing we find one another.

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