A World Increasingly Divided

At left we find an interesting perspective.

There seems to be no doubt that the world is increasingly a) divided, and b) more and more willing to inflict great harm on people on the other side.

As has been throughout history, most of this is driven by religion, i.e., the inane notion that my God is better than your God, but there is a secular side to this as well.  By this I mean tribalism in all its forms: racism, xenophobia, the demonization of wokeism.

I’m anything but an expert on the Israel/Palestine issue, but it strikes me that there are cultural and historical differences that are at least as powerful a driving force as theology per se.

From the perspective of a progressive American who is reading about this from the safety of his home on the other side of the globe, this seems like childish bull****.  If you saw your kids bully each other like this, you’d simply tell them to knock it off.

The stupidity of this whole mess is amplified by the fact that it’s happening in the midst of things like climate change and the other existential threats to human civilization.

On top of that, I quote American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.”