The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised Will not be televised, will not be televised The revolution will be no re-run, brothers The revolution will be live. In 1970, in the aftermath of the American Civil Rights Movement, the African American poet Gil Scott Heron penned words urging people to the streets. His iconic words outlasted the Jim Crow laws that inspired them. But in that year, the promise of racial equality was not delivered as the hold of American apartheid remained.
Interesting and intriguing and infuriating all at once. Well written well explained I will keep praying for the people of Palestine from the river to the sea Palestine 🇵🇸 will definitely be free.... In-sha-a-Allah thank you Kalid for all you do for humanity. Keep up the good work. Sallam....
This article shakes me. Here is the disastrous state of our world, all laid out. I don’t see any way to turn back. Or find a light at the end of this tunnel. It is time to truly step up to stop this. In any way we physically can and yet, here we all are. Paralyzed by our phones, and our calls to end this have fallen on deaf ears. The israelis plan to continue this destruction until it is “done”. They won’t stop until they’re all murdered in palestine and then some. Where do we go from here? Are we sitting ducks? We were living in an illusion of what our world was. We see it clear as day now. Humans are capable and evil enough to murder a million innocent people. And our countries allow it to happen.
Others pretend that the United States supports human rights, seizing on a specific moment in time after the Second World War that Washington has thoroughly abandoned in the decades since. America is less a democracy than a military industrial empire able to disregard dissent as long as people continue to work and go shopping. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-genocide-in-gaza-is-a-test-of
The desensitisation of humanity is awful. This angle is one that I think about often. You’ve articulated it so well. It’s sad to read. Sad to think about. Sad to witness.
We are in a precarious situation. How do we tow that line between overstimulation-leading-to-desensitization and reduced engagement for the preservation of emotional sensitivity? It's an important question to wrestle with, and it's great that this article brings this tension to light. In my humble opinion, I think that we must allow ourselves to become desensitized if that is the consequence of bearing witness to the suffering of others. We should recognize that our growing desensitization to the visual horrors of genocide is abnormal. In other words, by acknowledging that our normalization of the abnormal is abnormal, maybe we can keep our humanity alive. I wouldn't necessarily try and "un-desensitize" myself (I know that there are people with critical mental health struggles who might require disengagement for a time). What I am saying is: Let it be because it is. Let the suffering do its work in each of us. Regardless of what each of us chooses to do along the way, just keep moving forward.
Interesting and intriguing and infuriating all at once. Well written well explained I will keep praying for the people of Palestine from the river to the sea Palestine 🇵🇸 will definitely be free.... In-sha-a-Allah thank you Kalid for all you do for humanity. Keep up the good work. Sallam....
Thank you for your thoughts Khaled , keep up the great work! May God protect you 🙏🏽
This article shakes me. Here is the disastrous state of our world, all laid out. I don’t see any way to turn back. Or find a light at the end of this tunnel. It is time to truly step up to stop this. In any way we physically can and yet, here we all are. Paralyzed by our phones, and our calls to end this have fallen on deaf ears. The israelis plan to continue this destruction until it is “done”. They won’t stop until they’re all murdered in palestine and then some. Where do we go from here? Are we sitting ducks? We were living in an illusion of what our world was. We see it clear as day now. Humans are capable and evil enough to murder a million innocent people. And our countries allow it to happen.
Thank you, brother! Your reflections are painfully accurate. Too many forget America’s complicity in previous genocides, and how recently they continued. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/indigenous-lives-matter-from-north
Others pretend that the United States supports human rights, seizing on a specific moment in time after the Second World War that Washington has thoroughly abandoned in the decades since. America is less a democracy than a military industrial empire able to disregard dissent as long as people continue to work and go shopping. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-genocide-in-gaza-is-a-test-of
The desensitisation of humanity is awful. This angle is one that I think about often. You’ve articulated it so well. It’s sad to read. Sad to think about. Sad to witness.
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل.. العالم على مرئى ومسمع على ما يحدث في غزةلكن لا أحد يتحرك..
Allah is with us 🇵🇸✌️
We are in a precarious situation. How do we tow that line between overstimulation-leading-to-desensitization and reduced engagement for the preservation of emotional sensitivity? It's an important question to wrestle with, and it's great that this article brings this tension to light. In my humble opinion, I think that we must allow ourselves to become desensitized if that is the consequence of bearing witness to the suffering of others. We should recognize that our growing desensitization to the visual horrors of genocide is abnormal. In other words, by acknowledging that our normalization of the abnormal is abnormal, maybe we can keep our humanity alive. I wouldn't necessarily try and "un-desensitize" myself (I know that there are people with critical mental health struggles who might require disengagement for a time). What I am saying is: Let it be because it is. Let the suffering do its work in each of us. Regardless of what each of us chooses to do along the way, just keep moving forward.