We wake up, open our eyes, and take in the world. A moment later we switch on our phones and start doomscrolling.
Oh, what a beautiful day.
News headlines of death, depravity, and destruction. Stories of pregnant mothers being executed by weaponry operated by brainwashed zombies who cannot know the depth of their crimes. Pictures showing wanton desecration of innocent people’s homes, lives, and dreams, generations of honest work shattered in instants that scream through eternity.
We appear to stand on the threshold of a global war, predicated on the muddled wishes of leaders ensconced within delusional echelons. The lessons of history continued to be ignored, and so the axiom prevails when describing how history repeats itself.
Is this objective terrorism – this unending state of chronic confusion, insecurity, and resultant destruction – biological? Can this almost illogical need to mercilessly execute for the sake of purported ideals be ascribed to a chemical urge to flush the world of that which, ironically, is ordering its own destruction? Or is this objective terrorism – enacted primarily by states which subsequently force the hands of insurgencies – a product of nurture, it materializing as a need to compensate for both the personal and projected paradigms of lack that its perpetrators feel?
So much of life appears to revolve around the politics of lack. Whether it be fighting for resources, illusory power, ephemeral status, or the lies of legacy, lack continually needs to be compensated for. This stark reality – materialized through leaders defined by lack – is the catalyzing agent and driving force behind the terror that currently defines our lives.
Only when silence reigns in warmongering hearts will anyone truly be free.