Honestly, anymore, I wake up and I think to myself ‘you know what, self, I haven’t killed any children in Israel, in Palestine, in Europe. Not once have I embarked on militaristic land grabs or ethnic cleansing campaigns or done a terrorism or engaged in war profiteering.’ And, after feeling a certain self-satisfaction at meeting this very low standard of behavior, I feel a profound sense of relief in that, despite the uncivilized nature of what we call civilization, that’s not on my conscience.
It’s telling that the people who control the laws, who preach nonviolence, are also the one group of people for whom there are no consequences for mass murder, what we call war. It is also very telling that they have turned it into a profitable business enterprise or an amoral political game. War is a relic, people. We can’t afford it, morally, environmentally, economically. It’s time to grow the fuck up. War, genocide, mass murder, these things belong in fiction and history, not our headlines.