This is excerpted from a longer essay and deeper dive, "Personal and Global Reckoning, and Gaza". You can read it HERE
Gaza is the moral litmus test of our time. A mirror. A line in the sand.
If we cannot face a genocide unfolding before our eyes, armed, bankrolled, excused and protected by our own governments and mainstream media…then any claim to guiding humanity toward a livable future is a lie we tell
ourselves.
We have been trained to look away, to excuse, to call it complicated. To retreat into “both sides” or “neutrality”, or to believe someone else will act.
We have been numbed by euphemisms like “collateral damage,” where burned children are described as logistical mishaps or human shields.
We have been seduced by spiritual bypassing that says, “I cannot judge, onlylove” while stepping over the bodies.
But what we permit in Gaza, we permit everywhere.
History shows the reckoning never begins with those in power: it begins with ordinary people refusing to obey, refusing to be numbed and refusing to normalise the unthinkable.
We cannot inherit or build a New Earth with these shadows intact, the massacres ongoing and the shredded bodies and blood still wet on the sand.
We enter a New Earth not by bypassing what is burning, but by turning toward each other: awake, accountable and committed to the survival of all life.
It is not too late to be credible. It is not too late to be human. And it is not too late to face the mirror of Gaza, or of polycrisis metastasising everywhere … and choose to become the people that our descendants and the history books, movies, museums and universities will remember, and to become the people that the future will thank for standing, honouring and defending.
→ Explore further: [RISE UP: In Times of Great Upheaval, the Awakened Rise] — (HERE) — where we go from disillusionment to awakening with clarity and courage.
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