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When The Game is Over
— Joseph Fasano
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“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
~ Chris Maser, ‘Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest’
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Let’s not restart the Trojan war
— Simone Weil
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Atrocities are committed in the wake of very passionate language that sounds logical but isn’t because there’s no examination of words and what they actually mean. We use language to stimulate and direct blame and a sense of injustice to achieve revenge. The suffering of defenseless children and other life forms we call “collateral damage,” as if it’s the unfortunate and completely unintended side effects of a just war. We “know” that nothing that can be done to avoid it.
Does that logic convince you? Do you notice anything missing in it? Might these actions create a history and cause reactions that perpetuate more human-made catastrophes? Where is the end? Do we even want it to end?
