Conflict Is Not Abuse

do we continue trading injustice for injustice forever and ever?

these actors displayed distorted thinking in which justifiable behavior was understood as aggression.

the anxiety from the action.

people have contradictions,

actual Trauma and the fetishization of Trauma. It is the identification of traumatized people with bullies, who cannot be opposed or acknowledge mistakes. The Jews have an opportunity to deprogram themselves, as some of us have chosen to do when faced with the Palestinian challenge. We change our self-perception, our myths about ourselves. We chall

“Hamas” is an excuse to justify all kinds of cruelties. It’s a Monster or Spectre that has been invented as a dehumanized repository of everyone’s blame. I am not religious and I don’t support religious parties.

Then, via a spectacle of protection-through-dominance, they used the tactics of myth-building and accrued might, rooted in themes of European racial Supremacy.

My thesis is that at many levels of human interaction there is the opportunity to conflate discomfort with threat, to mistake internal anxiety for exterior danger, and in turn to escalate rather than resolve.

But it is another thing to hear about what your group-bonding ritual is actually doing to another human being’s life.