nika on id and war
The reality is that there is no “true identity”,
there is only constant changing of clothes and the inability to match with oneself permanently.
Understanding this, how can you justify war “for the nation”, “for identity”, “for soil”, “for sovereignty”, God forgive me?
With whom to fight if no one is equal to himself?
Who to kill if in each one there are a dozen mismatched characters and none final?
thurman interconnectedness law: when you understand interconnectedness it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying – Robert Thurman (@BobThurman)
via fb post dec 7 4am:
Yesterday I was listening to smart people, who spoke quite confidently about “blood and soil”, identity politics, and national rights, for which we supposedly need to fight. As if a person is a finished chapter from a school textbook: Uncle Vasya is Armenian, aunt Motya is a Tatar, such things.
Simple life experience shows that a person is a process, an imperfection, never and no one is equal to himself:
Today he is the young sharpshooter,
tomorrow is a shallow and meaningless marasmatic.
And it’s all the same: Polish, Russian, Jew, anyone.
You can still tell about the same person in a way that comes out
the revolutionary,
a national genius,
the nazi opera bell ring.
And it’s all true.
The reality is that there is no “true identity”,
there is only constant changing of clothes and the inability to match with oneself permanently.
Understanding this, how can you justify war “for the nation”, “for identity”, “for soil”, “for sovereignty”, God forgive me?
With whom to fight if no one is equal to himself?
Who to kill if in each one there are a dozen mismatched characters and none final?
The Kurds told me that they were going to the mountains to fight, when their old grandmother was forced to speak Turkish, banning Kurdish.
But we were not talking about the creation of the beautiful and great Kurdistan, but about the direct and humiliating violence from which we need to protect right now. They offered no other alternatives than obedience to the Kurds.
In autonomous Rozhava, as far as I know, there are no bans on Turkish or any other language.
There is the only place in the Middle East where everyone lives together and participates in assemblies: Kurds, Greeks, former Europeans, Jews, Arabs and so on.
All of this has existed for more than 10 years, just in case.
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be you. 