{"id":261045,"date":"2024-04-29T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261045"},"modified":"2024-07-02T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:49:36","slug":"in-this-dystopia-opposing-a-genocide-is-considered-worse-than-committing-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/in-this-dystopia-opposing-a-genocide-is-considered-worse-than-committing-one\/","title":{"rendered":"In This Dystopia, Opposing a Genocide Is Considered Worse Than Committing One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That\u2019s how crazy they need us to be to keep us supporting a globe-spanning empire that literally cannot exist without nonstop violence and tyranny. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

25 Apr 2024 – <\/em>All the frenzied shrieking about pro-Palestine protests at universities these last few days makes it clear that our civilization is so twisted and insane that it sees protesting a genocide as far worse than committing one. Which is about as backwards as any society could possibly be.<\/p>\n

Seriously, try to imagine a crazier, more upside-down civilization than one which gets more angry at people protesting genocidal atrocities than it does at people committing them. A civilization where people wear their pants on their head and walk backwards all day? That would be less crazy. A civilization where the dogs own the people and the children go to work while the parents go to school? That would be less crazy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as wrong as you can possibly get anything in this world. It\u2019s actually hard to imagine how anyone could get anything more wrong. If you\u2019ve accepted daily massacres of innocent civilians as the baseline normal and appropriate thing, and regard any opposition to this as a freakish and evil abomination, then you\u2019re as screwed up and confused about reality as any other stark raving lunatic in town. Maybe worse.<\/p>\n

To view nonstop mass military slaughter as moral and opposition thereto as immoral is to live in a mental moral universe that has been flipped on its head. It\u2019s to inhabit a reality tunnel that has become completely divorced from reality. But that\u2019s the kind of mainstream worldview that the political-media class in this society are working to indoctrinate us into day in and day out throughout our entire lives.<\/p>\n

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