The Lure Of Turning Against
Elica Le Bon’s linktree here.
I'm part of the movement wanting slaughtering of innocent Palestinians to stop...
who does NOT feel we should kill the hostages.
Nor say to Jewish people, "I wish Hitler was still here, he would have wiped you all out."
It can sometimes feel inevitable, facing such horrific, unending, atrocity... to not subtly begin losing our humanity in the process. Hard not to hold two seemingly opposing agendas... and not realize they are only one to begin with. Especially when there is a poison that has managed to betray the many generations before them by insidiously being handed down to & by selected some, seduced within these generations, encouraging their strong desire for us... to... not realize... that they are only one.
We likely didn't realize how possible it truly was that we might be susceptible, ourselves, as enduringly staunch advocates for peace & protectors of the innocent... to buying into what some want us to believe: to protect innocents, we must turn against some innocents by deeming some innocents... the other. Thus, not so innocent anymore. By willing ourselves into only understanding so much about them, then deliberately never going further within that understanding, blocking out that understanding. And thus... with the only methods of innocence-protection we can presently conceive of devising in our truly righteous mission... we become more unable to brand certain innocents whose protection we can't reconcile, much less, serve with our plan, no matter how hard we try... for them now, thus, required to be deemed inconceivable as innocent anymore. Despite how much we'd, in truth, recognize that they, indeed, still were if we failed our added mission by letting ourselves remember that truth. And in kind, if we do not fail, we find the... "strength" to become bringers of subtly approaching horror... to those innocents. Planting more seeds, feeding the human cycle into the next generational crop of horrors.
Facing that this inner struggle... within us all at some point... to not fall into an insidious just-gradual-enough-not-to-notice deterioration of our own inner humanity... this is, itself, part of the human struggle. It is, itself, part of the very same path any have taken to embrace atrocity's perpetuation that gradually approaches the impact of the very acts we, ourselves, started off endeavoring to oppose & prevent.
We are all human. We are all capable of protecting innocence, as well as being the ones from whom innocence needs protection. We are all capable of not realizing, if gradually coerced subtly enough by those seeking from our momentum a further empowerment of their agenda for destruction, oppression, and obliteration... we are all capable of one day finding ourselves wondering just when and how we've managed to go from the former to the latter... and eventually become something unrecognizable to ourselves.
Because... something no one told so many of us is that... such... is... a natural part of the human struggle within the maintenance of our own humanity. Growing to realize we're always vulnerable to what we may not always realize... about what can corrupt within us... what can do so if... gradually enough... and connected to enough genuine, still completely valid righteousness.
May we never give up defending innocence. Given recurrent circumstances, it never stops being vulnerable to potential atrocity.
And may we never give up protecting our own. Given recurrent circumstances, it never stops being vulnerable to the potential...
for atrocity.
We'll find our way. And for some of us, another truth never told but gradually discovered: this found way will include... finding the way back.
And when we do, from wherever we are, wherever we've been, and however lost we may have occasionally found ourselves along this way...
the even higher degrees of wisdom and compassion that will come with it... would surprise who we are now.
Yet not at all... who we will be.
