What Gives a Few Powerful People the Right to Wage War?
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The Activist Emotional Landscape section of Activist Explorer is where I reflect on the emotional ups and downs of being an activist. Sometimes it’s a personal emotional airing. I remember the Cuban missile crisis. I was a little kid, but I remember how nervous the adults around me were. A prospective nuclear confrontation. Horrific, apocalyptic. They had us do drills in elementary school, hiding under our desks—as if that would protect us from nuclear destruction.
Striking read! Conjures similar sentiments I expressed in ‘War-Free’, though your commentary is far more in depth. Have the knowledge a few of us are unabashedly ‘pacifist’, as I wrote in “Is a promotion a character check?” I wish war on no one, and glad to learn we are in good company.
Saw this happen yesterday in Lisbon .... a small thing, but made me think of you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1yzjsbjFWY
Striking read! Conjures similar sentiments I expressed in ‘War-Free’, though your commentary is far more in depth. Have the knowledge a few of us are unabashedly ‘pacifist’, as I wrote in “Is a promotion a character check?” I wish war on no one, and glad to learn we are in good company.
A tweet:
#Ukriane it is so sad
#StopWar of men mad
#Putin will be buried with gold
#PutinWarCriminal it will turn to mold
#TheGodmother should had seen
#TheGodson was so mean
she could have given him #timeout
So world wouldn’t be #burnedout
I love the way you point to a system controlled by and profitting the rich rather than just accuse individual poliiticos of injustice.
Good essay!