confessions

Recently I have seen 5 videos of decapitated children in Gaza, of parents and rescue workers cradling the disembodied heads of children. 

Today, I saw a young girl with half of her mouth missing, the other half hanging off by a shred of skin. I could go on and on, I've seen bodies flattened & broken by tank treds.

I am disturbed by how inured people are, where did our culture go wrong to accept this violence? When I talk about it, some people justify (!) why those children must die. I feel so alienated from a culture that doesn't just accept this violence, but even glorifies it. Under every video, I'll read replies mocking the dead, making jokes about their slaughter.

I don't know what to do, I feel helpless and ashamed to live in a society that is so violent, that discards human life so cheaply from the comfort of our televisions and iphones thousands of miles away. 

I don't talk about it here because we don't really talk about politics on Farcaster, but I can't stop thinking about it.

I feel the same.   I feel also stuck between having the luxury of "reducing my circle of control" to attempt to be there for my partner and kids, etc.  but it is rediculous how this is occuring and how it's being funded.  I just don't know what to do.