Global Political Triage
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ineffabelleWhen I was in the military we were taught to shoot to wound, if possible.
This is so that you take two or more people out of the battle, the injured soldier, and those who attempt to help him. It's a horrible but effective tactic, using the enemy's humanity and empathy against them.
Of course knowing that, one learns to make a sort of Triage with regards to the wounded. Some can be easily helped, some can't be helped, and some of them it's a judgement call, weighing the risks.
And so it is in the Larger Battle.
We must continue to find our own joy somehow in life, despite the horrors, lest we become another casualty and take our own friends out of the game as well. Your responses to the ills of modern life must be tempered by this sort of judgement call, as sad as that is. We're not going to win them all.
But by keeping that in mind, we can win the war.
This is so that you take two or more people out of the battle, the injured soldier, and those who attempt to help him. It's a horrible but effective tactic, using the enemy's humanity and empathy against them.
Of course knowing that, one learns to make a sort of Triage with regards to the wounded. Some can be easily helped, some can't be helped, and some of them it's a judgement call, weighing the risks.
And so it is in the Larger Battle.
We must continue to find our own joy somehow in life, despite the horrors, lest we become another casualty and take our own friends out of the game as well. Your responses to the ills of modern life must be tempered by this sort of judgement call, as sad as that is. We're not going to win them all.
But by keeping that in mind, we can win the war.
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Get out of my head!
Date: 2006-10-02 04:36 pm (UTC)I've been using "spiritual triage" myself to describe our global pandemic of despair. I got a direct dose of it myself this weekend with one gravely wounded soldier.
The single scene from The Matrix that has always stuck out most is where Morpheus is describing it as a system, and explains that those who are not yet out are still themselves part of the very system you're fighting to get them out of it. It's a bewildering and, at times, painful paradox.
But yeah, this is why I refuse to give in to the same despair. The only way I'm going to heal my brethren enough to unplug them is to stay healed myself first.
Thank you for this reminder. Your timing as always is exquisite. In fact, is it OK if I either quote or link to this? I know some folks that could use to hear this.
Re: Get out of my head!
Date: 2006-10-02 05:09 pm (UTC)and also:
Date: 2006-10-02 05:10 pm (UTC)- from The Invisibles by Grant Morrison
I repeat...
Date: 2006-10-03 01:33 am (UTC)Out of my head! I was just last night reading up on de Sade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade) and remebered that I needed to get back to reading The Invisibles some time (started it years ago, never finished it).
That's good food for thought
Date: 2006-10-02 09:56 pm (UTC)