i feel like it’s deliberate.
bombarding us with pictures of bombed children.
it’s messing with all our heads – anyone with any empathy or humanity left in them anyway.
and… feeding the others?
but is the purpose weakening us who would oppose them? or strengthening their supporters? or desensitization in general?
is it to increase despair? or normalize killing anyone that gets in their way?
or am I overthinking this, and they honestly just don’t care?
like, this is something they’ve always done, and it’s just that social media now prevents the complete control of narrative that traditional news media used to employ – remnants of which we can still see in how the West is reporting these war crimes that we are witnessing almost live through shaky phones next to Instagram and tik tok reels…
and who stands to gain?
is it just the death throes of a declining empire, a last tantrum of the US of A? the military industrial complex disguised as a country, unable to survive, let alone thrive, without creating conflict after conflict.
is this just the logical next act of a consumer capitalist nationalist world stage?
or is it something even more sinister?
all i know is that yesterday I watched another child’s shredded corpse being discovered by hopeful rescuers, and today i saw her smiling face as she ran down an empty dirt road with a friend, the happiness so palpable, it hurt more than all the pain.
god, what will it take to end this?
and how can we ensure that those responsible aren’t allowed to get away with all this senseless destruction of precious human life??
what kind of society goes after children??
and what does our inability to stop this slaughter of babies for months now say about us as a species?
what will it take?
if even this isn’t too much,
isn’t enough,
what will be?
The Revolution Breathes Fire 