- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
Man… Gaza is burning. Right now, people I know, families like mine, are trapped, scared, and running for their lives. Israel says it’s targeting Hamas, but it’s us, the civilians, paying the price. Homes are being destroyed, kids are terrified, and the streets are chaos.
This isn’t just news to me, it’s my reality. Every explosion, every death, every piece of rubble is part of our lives right now. People are fleeing south with whatever they can carry, selling what little they have just to survive. And the world… it’s mostly watching.
I’m from Gaza. This is my home, my people, my life—and seeing it called a “military operation” while families suffer breaks something inside me.
While I agree with the sentiment, these have mainly come about due to technological advancements as well as social ones (diplomacy). We are at heart still a war mongering people with a need to dominate.
Do the technological and social advances not show that we are also at heart a progressive people with a need to care for eachother and create a better future?
They do, up to the point where, as we are seeing, technology starts being used by governments to suppress their people. Where social advances have identified many disorders, only for governments to use these medical labels (autism springs to mind in the US) to attack groups of people or refute science to blame these disorders on vaccines for example. Two vastly different sides of one messed up coin. For every advance we make, these advances give tools to governments etc. I get how far medicine has come and how we have got a handle on many diseases, and how technology has without doubt made our every day lives easier. But there’s a flip side to that, and it’s ugly.