Let us learn, again and again, to Dare to Care
David Graeber said the moment we think we cannot talk to another human being is the moment we have decided they are no longer human.
I think about this as I watch people speaking of other humans as animals.
In this extraordinary masterclass of humanity and compassion, Gabor Mate addresses a woman who calls the Palestinians animals.
Sometimes, talking to another is hard. When an Israeli casually said that 40,000 dead Palestinians is not enough dead Palestinians, as happened to us in a conversation in Sri Lanka, the mental implosion that happens can make a response feel like a mountain too hard to climb. Indeed, it was the shock of this casual response to mass death that stripped any possibility of speech from my mouth. I could not reconcile the words and the tone. The speaker might well have said that it was a lovely day as he mentioned that many more needed to be dead.
As Hannah Arendt wrote, it is when evil becomes banal that we know a threshold has been crossed that strips us of our humanity.
But we must respond. For the mountain to climb against bigots and those who have been infected by propaganda is an easier mountain than the one to climb after rights have been stripped, or the banality of evil has been thoroughly normalised.
The Molochian media and capitalistic complex seek to divide us. The puppets played on the strings of the Molochian strategists spew hate speech.
For us to react with violence, or silence, is for us to continue to play the game we are encouraged to play. Only a few win.
It is not the majority of humanity.
Let us learn, again and again, to Dare to Care.
Photo Taken November 5th 2024, Article written November 6th 2024
