Published: 10/11/2023, Edited: 24/11/2023
I'm watching dozens of dead Palestinian children, and their mothers cry out for help, after 200+ Israeli people were taken hostage and protests either against Israeli Government's historical injustice or Hamas. None of them deserved this, but this is how Israel mows the grass every couple of years.
The insufferable pain that they have experienced makes them go numb, as it does to every person in the Western Neoliberal Plutocratic world that feels their plight and sees their own givings as the misgivings of those less fortunate. This is how the world order is designed at the moment.
It treats those who are living in circumstances that have followed a historical injustice as less human than those than have benefitted from the circumstances of a historical injustice - like a postcode.
If you are born in the Democratic Republic of Congo today, you will mine cobalt for the ignoramuses of the Western 'Liberal Democratic' world until you die, with a daily pickings of food, and the basic necessities that you need to survive, while the Western Neoliberal Plutocratic world can't exist without you.
If you are born in most countries of the Western Neoliberal Plutocratic world, you will be taught personal responsibility, to treasure what you own and that it is your property to keep and that no one can take it away from you no matter what, and that the state will protect that. The state will also tell you that it's doing an adequate job to rectify the centuries of blowback that it has received from the generations of anti-colonial resistance against it, that it will listen to your needs as a member of whatever marginalised minority you're a part of when you are not asking for any of those (mostly property) rights to be bestowed upon yourself as an individual, because you don't care about yourself as an individual as much as you care about our collective wellbeing, and our collective wellbeing starts with us as individuals accepting that our legacy should require the people that we've wronged to lead the conversation about how those wrongs can be rectified, or at the very least involve them.