Without a lineage of guided practice, only an impoverished artifice of distraction, deflection and denial remains. Jurisprudence, for instance, has been inverted and reduced to a fancy set of lock-picks and escape tricks.
Levels of public awareness are not sufficient to stop a genocide, even when it is carried out in broad daylight and live-streamed. When enough of us see, it may stop. But the sight is itself damaging to humanity.
Their dogs liked our cats / Albeit the like was not mutual / But they loved to garden
Nature (and human nature) preclude, at least for the moment, the choice to live forever. Illness, accident, and crime cut lives short every day despite the perfectly normal desire to continue living.----But the desire to NOT continue living, for whatever reason, brings up a choice that rightfully belongs to all mentally competent adults. Entirely. Completely. Without exception.
The policies of the Biden Administration concerning Gaza are affecting our standing in world opinion and are very likely to influence the next presidential election.
