WORLD AFFAIRS | PROSPERITY | PEACE
Okay I think we need some peace now
(and here is how to do it)
Okay. We have robbed them of the orchards of their forefathers. We have stolen from them their houses and everything they had. We have othered them, downgraded them to second rate citizens, and if they weren’t happy with the way we have treated them, we have chased them away and locked them in.
Before, we were their guests and they were our hosts and they have valued our diversity for centuries.
Content with this, we were not. We wanted more. We wanted it all.
We keep hurting them.
And then, when we have treated them like dogs for generations, and finally the hurt souls we always wanted them to be they became — like a mortally wounded animal, they snarl. Which is when we kill them “for their own and everybody’s good.”
We’ve had enough
My life has seen too many of such stories of violence. We keep othering the others. I grew up with stories of Holocaust and Partition. I’ve seen Korea, The Great American War in Vietnam, The…
