Concerned Citizen

Small gestures of kindness are a form of daily activism. Just showing concern for a fellow human can them. If everyone practiced this daily, the world would come together. If we ever get to the next higher form of society, they will look back on the "social media arc" of human history and say "small gestures of kindness and smiles are meaningful"... "remember when hate was magnified algorithmically, and we scoffed and sneered at each other on the street; full of mistrust and fear"... in many ways the "fake it til you make it" is real... in other words, what you practice becoming, you will become. When we’re young, and everything is black and white, it’s easy to think all the "good vibes" stuff is just nonsense and that people just are or aren’t "good"... But we need to realize that "good" is what we practice, not a thing we are. And, if a creepy uncomfortable smile is all you got, it’s better than nothing ;) *W...

At the core of Israel’s vicious and ongoing Genocide of the Palestinian people —is Religion. It fits perfectly with Biblical prophecies... that Jews are to reclaim “their” land, and ethnically cleanse the area of "enemies of Israel" before Endtimes. Christian/Zionist extremists are actively welcoming in "Armageddon", World War III scenarios, with "nations against nations", "famine", and total mayhem on Earth as the situation in the middle east teeters on the brink of wider world conflict, in order to self-fulfill their insane religious prophecies of Rapture and Jesus’s return. Many of our U.S. politicians are in fact devout evangelical Christians who back Israel's every move in this regard, all in the name of God. For to s upport Israel is to obtain "God’s blessing", as "God blesses the world through Israel".  This is all one big “religion is f**kng up everything” scenario… Proof that religion is not benign and neutral as ...

March is Women's History month. It's a reminder that fundamental changes can and HAVE been made to society throughout history, when we come together and organize to do so. Our systems are not immutable laws of the cosmos, they are made by us, and we can unmake them, reshape them. Activists like to say that changing the system isn’t possible, that attempting change within a broken system is futile… but what happens after successful protests, LAW gets made...and that is the enduring part. Conversely, progress is by no means “inevitable”, it must be fought for. And achievements gained are always susceptible to erosion without our active engagement, as demonstrated by recent undoings of reproductive rights in the US. Radical change begins and ends with “talking” and the exchange of ideas… another action commonly dismissed as futile and “doing nothing”. But, words are powerful, they are the very means to "meaning", they give shape to ideas, which come to shape the world w...

Israel has committed a 95% civilian death rate (compared to Hama's 45% on Oct 7th), enforced a total siege on resources and aid, has perpetually bombed civilian infrastructure, schools/universities, hospitals, entire fleets of ambulances, government buildings, UN shelters, farmlands, cemeteries... displacing 2 million people left to just starve and dehydrate to death — This is a Textbook case of Genocide... the worst thing since the Nazis. If one remains unconvinced of this brazen genocide, then no possible set of facts would convince them. Have we learned nothing since the last World Wars. We came through the Nuremberg Tribunals, we had the Geneva conventions, we established international law, the United Nations, to protect against exactly this level of insanity so that it never, ever happened again. The whole UN structure needs to be reorganized/replaced, clearly, just like the League of Nations was. Rule of law is the last remaining glue holding our failing civilization together...