It's wonderful to see significant and dedicated fractions of the population take to the streets, or at least the campuses. But where is everybody else?
The settler colonial state provides jobs, toys, blinkered law, and unjust order for the compliant, at the expense of the discarded displaced and dispossessed for their resources of oil gas and water.
To all tribes of Chimpanzees, including our own, security and stability in the social order are paramount. The young are more prone to "acting out" as they are less conditioned by the social order. We can take heart that they are pointing to the injustice in Palestine, in which our government is complicit. The elders of us have seen this before. We are jaded by our government's complicity in much of the destruction of the world. War and destruction is what our government has been doing all of our lives. We are, after all, just chimpanzees striving to survive.
The settler colonial state provides jobs, toys, blinkered law, and unjust order for the compliant, at the expense of the discarded displaced and dispossessed for their resources of oil gas and water.
To all tribes of Chimpanzees, including our own, security and stability in the social order are paramount. The young are more prone to "acting out" as they are less conditioned by the social order. We can take heart that they are pointing to the injustice in Palestine, in which our government is complicit. The elders of us have seen this before. We are jaded by our government's complicity in much of the destruction of the world. War and destruction is what our government has been doing all of our lives. We are, after all, just chimpanzees striving to survive.