I wish old Walt were around. He’d tell it like it is. Where have these impartial, wise journalists gone? I feel like old, Diogenes, wandering the streets of Athens with my lantern, asking “Where is an honest man?”
I would ask, why have we not been working hard for peace? What is this failing in us - a failure to make a world of “never war again”. We just don’t work for peace anymore. It’s not even part of the world order. And then we have the crazies who think they can fight, slaughter, bomb our way to peace. OMG.
The war drums beat on. It’s a crazy thing, how irrational everyone gets during the “fog of war”. Primitive. Very much like McClaren’s Neighbors.
Meanwhile, I’m disturbed by all the cries of “Look! Real fighters of freedom! Not like those truckers! —- It’s amazing how little people know about Ukraine but still feel like they are right, they know the truth - when (again), they are just being spoonfed messages to hate, to prepare them to support continual war.
The truth is (and I was there), Kyiv, the capital was occupied numerous times for months on end. Defying the government (elected) and insisting on freedom. It was in the dead of winter, cold, tents all over Maidan and down Krischatek. Finally in 2014, the occupied forces in the capital won - they fought for their freedom through protest and won! They are truckers - the Ukrainians.
One great example of war propaganda is Zelensky's own image. So many sharing his “military” image with false photos or photos from years ago. He’s the new macho Putin. And don’t you mention his bank accounts, billions in Costa Rica and Br. Virgin Islands. No. No. No. Yet, it sits there in truth - he stole and is in bed with some bad motherfks. I do admire the man for staying and his messaging, defiance. To understand is not to condone. Watch Offshore 95.
But basically here is where we are at … a war drama of right vs wrong. Heroes against villains. Whereas the truth is a lot murkier and less clear. And the poor nonetheless, the regular Joes suffer and have to deal with the consequences.
It is crazy, our world of information that is really just tailored messaging. Controlled. Manipulative. The Russians are brainwashed - it is just an “operation”, not war. Etc …
The truth is, we too are being “messaged” and brain-fed. Drip, drip, drip. Bringing us to buy into the mess, continual war, continual sides.
Here is Brian Peckford, the last living signer of the Canadian Charter of Rights And Freedoms - talking about how we’ve been duped. Our freedoms were trampled on by the Trudeau government.
But alas, with all the BS everywhere, you got to get out into nature and find yourself. I did some hiking recently, chancing on this turtle trying to get to the water, a tree on its back.
And when all else fails, remember …