My Weltanschauung creates a lot of confirmation bias because
I do not interact with people who willfully wage war.
I do not have a set of lessons/sermons. But, given that I am
no longer a facilitator of other peoples’ learning, this is a good thing. I am
no longer obliged to fill the brain buckets of students with COWDUNG
(conventional wisdom of the dominant group.)
The media employs the Dimbleby brothers
to facilitate “Question Time” and “Any Answers” where ‘personalities’ respond
to questions from invited guests. Mouths open, bellies rumble, and applause
machines provide an illusion of great audience participation. No issue is given
more than five minutes of noisy name calling. To label the puerile processes as
discussion or debate is to trivialise the terms.
I don’t understand zealots and suicide bombers. Moronic myth and magic. Propaganda. Demonization of the enemy. And an affiliation to
win/lose rather than to win/win. Genocide has been around for a long time.
There is a problem with enculturation, with nature, nurture and serendipity.
Devoted parents, dangerous politicians, and deluded children with a ‘reality’
to live and die for.
And there is the military/industrial complex. Make extremely
expensive bombs and encourage ongoing carpet bombing. Wreck the enemy soldiers
and civilians and their hospitals, schools and key infrastructure. And arrange for
your pals to win the reconstruction contracts.
I survived a mortar attack in Zambia. Some of the school
staff were killed. My souvenir is a razor sharp fragment of an anti-personnel
mortar designed to chop people’s legs off. Which human minds designed,
manufactured and marketed such things? And now there are smart drones with
massive payloads – safe murder gone to scale. And let us not forget Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
It is in the minds of men that wars are created and in the
minds of men that peace must be won.
Changing Weltanschauung.
Changing minds.
Anti-war.
Politics where we all win.
Yoh.
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