Warzone Living
Researching in preparation for ‘Never Closer’
Warzone Living
And yet . . . in a strange way, I was not home. I was still waiting, still looking for something.
John Sherrill • The Hiding Place
Jimmy and Dee
The thing is…it was our “normal”. We didn’t know any different. It was normal to see soldiers on the street. It was normal to hear and/or see an explosion. It was normal because it happened. Of course there’s nothing normal about any of this.
reddit.comSomeday not so far away, everyone alive right now will graduate from the world, many of us having lived believing we were strangers, oblivious to the fact that we had all along been in the same class. Had the same century as a teacher. Just different beliefs about who was or wasn’t a bully. I adore this brief and clumsy life. And because of that, I... See more
Andrea Gibson • The Tears That Got Me Here
Harry
Typical story where I'm from, (about the bombers) young ones persuaded to do crazy shit for the cause by older manipulative cunts.
reddit.comIs it better to leave in search of greener grass or stay and water the grass beneath your feet.
the Israelis continued to re-enact their own historic trauma on the people who were not its cause.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
He is the fruit of a cycle of hatred perpetuated by adults who never tried to save their children from their sins. Prisoner of the walls, then prisoner of his island, Eren is not fundamentally different from the Palestinian child who lives trapped between the atrocities of Hamas and the apartheid policies of Benjamin Nethanyaou. He is a
... See moreAttack on Titan, an endless cycle of hatred
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“He’s [Eren] always been possessed by an altruistic kindness that could give way, at any moment, to an uncontainable rage.“
“He is the fruit of a cycle of hatred perpetuated by adults who never tried to save their children from their sins. Prisoner of the walls, then prisoner of his island, Eren is not fundamentally different from the Palestinian child who lives trapped between the atrocities of Hamas and the apartheid policies of Benjamin Nethanyaou. He is a consequence, because no one has had the courage to point the finger and put a stop to it.”
“For this reason, he begins his march at the head of an army of Colossal Titans to eradicate the rest of the human population, with the sole aim of ensuring that nothing will ever happen to those he loves.”
“everyone can be perceived as a god or a demon, depending on who is telling the story, just as one person’s terrorists may embody a form of revolutionary beauty for another.”
KEEP READING - up to “A Tale of Perspective”
Eh, the joys of having to get off the school bus and walk through the barricades to enter the school, while the school was still being searched in case the bomb was located there....
It tended to pull people in one of two directions.
1. "themmuns" are horrible and we should embrace our... See more
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