Dismissing it because it is normal is the wrong reaction. Our sense of rage at injustice needs to accumulate into meaningful action in order for anything to improve.
What I think they’re getting at is that this is and always has been what the US does, but they are usually very insistent that it’s ‘DELIVERING FREEDOM’ or some other spiel.
Growing up is realising the bluff and then getting mad at how long we’ve been tricked.
Disillusionment is real. Personally been a pretty pretty depressing journey, I wasn’t even that “tricked” by the whole thing to begin with. But the last 20 years have been just outside of reality. Obama was a great orator and led with a calm poise, but our global policy was still unrelenting.
Dismissing it because it is normal is the wrong reaction. Our sense of rage at injustice needs to accumulate into meaningful action in order for anything to improve.
What I think they’re getting at is that this is and always has been what the US does, but they are usually very insistent that it’s ‘DELIVERING FREEDOM’ or some other spiel.
Growing up is realising the bluff and then getting mad at how long we’ve been tricked.
Disillusionment is real. Personally been a pretty pretty depressing journey, I wasn’t even that “tricked” by the whole thing to begin with. But the last 20 years have been just outside of reality. Obama was a great orator and led with a calm poise, but our global policy was still unrelenting.