Wide open red tulip against the blue sky. The full quote from THE END OF ALL WARS is: ‘We normalised war. We made it into something that naturally occurs.’ ‘True. We observe our actions, and then we enshrine the observed as truth instead of realising that we can shape the way we act.’ ‘What exactly do you mean?’ ‘We know that nations have waged wars for centuries and so we assume that war is something we naturally do. There have been calls for peace—’ ‘—a long time ago,’ one of us mumbled. ‘True. But despite of these calls, we never truly questioned war. We said we don’t want wars, but we didn’t explore how to make sure that wars could never happen again.’ ‘We normalised war,’ one of us repeated thoughtfully. ‘But not just that. We normalised injustice, inequality, exploitation, hunger. In fact, we never challenged the way we deal with each other, the way we settle, the way we live, the way we do business. We didn’t dig deeper. Mostly we let things happen. And many of us simply accepted the systems around us as something that is, not as something we invented.’
#TulipStudy
and a #Reminder that
We normalised war.
Not just that.
We normalised injustice, inequality, exploitation, hunger.
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#EndAllWars #NoWars #EndEcocide #EndGenocide #tulips #photography #bloomscroll #flowers #doomscroll #nature #EverythingIsConnected
