#Gaza We watched this last night. It was the most traumatic thing I hsve ever seen. It shows how systematically Israel has destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system and killed doctors. This is ongoing - just yesterday many killed at Indonesian hospital.
I feel irrevocably alienated from all the lovely people around me who choose to just ignore all this. Not watch, not see. For almost two years the most barbaric slaughter, aided by our governments here.
Part of the issue is that there is a threshold of atrocity where it reabstracts itself into something you cant do anything about. I was just griping about how bearing witness doesnt do enough after a certain point but alienate - my angle is more on the 'what do we do about it' and the answer being 'bear more witness and drag others into it' and that being demotivational if you already have been shaken by it - no, you want an outlet to fight back, not pass along the worst things youve ever seen.
Its a starting point to get folks asking what they can do, and Id be fibbing if I said atrocity hadnt motivated me, but its more complicated once you get it. Theres a group of women in my neighborhood that hold a vigil for the children of gaza and its like, i love them and theyre doing the thing they think will help but its like, im already affected, I need the 200 level courses on how we sabotage boeing and maersk so Israel doesnt get weapons, ya know?
Pauline von Hellermann
Ciggy Bringer of Smoke