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Null Pointer's avatar

Thanks for this. Alot of what I have read about this on substack has been disappointing. Perhaps me seeking out 'takes' on this on substack is also part of the hyperobject. The word that comes to mind is defense mechanism.

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DJ Schiffman's avatar

Thanks for this courageous 'non-stand'. Reading this piece, I wept. These tears are more painful than tears of grief. These tears spring from a sense of helplessness about what’s happening - not just in the Middle East, but pretty much all over the world.

Righteous indignation is often the favored “dissonance management strategy”, but it is like licking honey from a knife. Rather than taking up the battle cry of any particular position, true courage may rest here, with facing - unflinchingly – the recognition that carnage is the inevitable outcome of a politics of outrage and the instrumental logic of those in power.

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