{"id":259165,"date":"2024-04-15T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=259165"},"modified":"2024-04-10T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:26:48","slug":"gaza-asks-us-a-question-about-what-kind-of-future-we-want-to-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/gaza-asks-us-a-question-about-what-kind-of-future-we-want-to-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Asks Us a Question about What Kind of Future We Want to Have"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A live-streamed genocide happening right out in the open forces a civilization to start asking questions about itself. [Are 21st century human beings savage under the illusion of being civilized? —TMS Editor<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

9 Apr 2024<\/em> – The main reason I\u2019ve focused so hard on Gaza these last six months isn\u2019t so much because of how evil and horrific Israel\u2019s mass atrocity is in and of itself, but because it\u2019s so intimately intertwined with all our world\u2019s other problems, and with the future of the human species.<\/p>\n

In a very real way, the destruction of Gaza appears to be a moment in history where humanity is collectively mulling over whether it wants to keep behaving in a crazy, self-destructive way and continue along its trajectory into dystopia and toward self-inflicted extinction, or abandon this madness and push for something better. Whether it wants to keep buying into the lies and propaganda and tacitly consenting to the psychopathic murderousness of the powerful, or let the light of truth shine in.<\/p>\n

A live-streamed genocide happening right out in the open forces a civilization to start asking questions about itself. If something like this can happen in plain view of everyone, and the people in charge not only do nothing but actively facilitate it, then you have to start wondering if everything about your entire nation is deranged, and if everything you\u2019ve been told about the world is a lie.<\/p>\n

If something so nakedly evil\u200a\u2014\u200aundisguised by anything besides a thin veneer of Zionist gaslighting telling us we\u2019re not seeing what we\u2019re seeing\u200a\u2014\u200acan be allowed to stand by those we\u2019ve entrusted to run things, then it means our entire society is diseased. Our government. Our political systems. Our media. Our education systems. Our worldviews. Our culture. It\u2019s all rotted and corrupted, right down to the core.<\/p>\n

The future we are being shown through the window of Gaza is dark. Dark, dark, dark, dark<\/em><\/strong>. They\u2019re currently using artificial intelligence<\/a> to create kill lists and to determine when its targets will be at home with their families to ensure maximum civilian deaths. We used to worry about a dark future where humans send machines to go kill people indiscriminately, but it turns out it\u2019s actually happening the other way around\u200a\u2014\u200awe\u2019re programming machines to tell us who to kill. The horror in our present dystopia isn\u2019t so much autonomous murderbots as ethical decisions about killing being outsourced to AI.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re being asked to accept this and move forward in this direction into the future. We\u2019re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it\u2019s fine and normal for our governments to knowingly support an unforgivable act of mass slaughter upon the inhabitants of a giant concentration camp. We\u2019re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it\u2019s fine and normal for the mass media to lie and distort and misinform the public about a matter of such urgent importance day after day, month after month. We\u2019re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it\u2019s fine and normal for a blatant genocide to take place right in front of our faces, and then move on as though nothing happened.<\/p>\n

And right now we\u2019re collectively ruminating on the question of whether we\u2019re going to decide to do those things, or if we\u2019re going to decide to do something else instead.<\/p>\n

The Gaza genocide is such a massive thing in and of itself\u200a\u2014\u200athe injustice, the murder, the loss, the unfathomable suffering. But what\u2019s happening in Gaza is also about so much more than Gaza. It\u2019s a moment in history where humanity is thinking seriously about real revolutionary change, and weighing the options between that and continuing along this tired old blood-soaked path we\u2019ve been travelling on for millennia.<\/p>\n

Gaza proves that our entire civilization is cancerous, and that everything we\u2019ve been doing has failed. When you come across information which blows apart your worldview in your personal life, you can either collapse under the weight of cognitive dissonance until you find some way to plug yourself back into the comforting lies, or you can set about the hard work of forming a new way of looking at things. That\u2019s the sort of moment we\u2019re being collectively offered with Gaza. We\u2019ll either accept the invitation, or continue our slide into darkness.<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. Contact: <\/em>admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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