My planet–it apparently is not yours, or else you would be taking better care of it–is groaning in pain. Language is a virus, as Laurie Anderson sang. We are sick. We need to talk together in a tongue(s) of peace. Cooperating releases abundance–your sperm are not going to be active until you beat the guns into glitter!
Remember hearing about the soccer playing soldiers in WWI, of 2015, and others would quit fighting at Christmas? “The Christmas Truce of 1914 was not a unique occasion in military history. It is common in conflicts with close quarters and prolonged periods of fighting for informal truces and generous gestures to take place between enemies. Similar events have occurred in other conflicts throughout history–and they continue to occur.” https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/christmas-at-the-front/history/truce-1914
While Biden plays Tough Guy to Putin’s Mr. Macho, and Zelensky, not to be outdone, acts horrible like Netanyahu, there are yet other conflicts the U. S. is involved in, around the world. Our defense industry is the only thing that’s healthy these days. It has its pudgy fingers in many parts of our society–including child care. But that doesn’t make me love our country ‘s faults.
“This Declaration [of Universal Human Rights] is based upon the spiritual fact that [hu]man must have freedom in which to develop [his/her] full stature and through common effort to raise the level of human dignity,” spoke Eleanor Roosevelt in her United Nations speech in 1948, on page 129 of Great Speeches by American Women, 2008: Mineola, NY, Dover Publications, Edited by James Daley. Freedom, I say, is predicated on peaceful surroundings. All human accomplishment–from individual to planetary–needs time to be built, and its tools come from the labor of love. Eleanor quotes Gladstone Murray: “No man is by nature simply the servant of the state or of another man…the ideal and fact of freedom–and not technology–are the true distinguishing marks of our civilization,” (p. 129).
Roosevelt says, in topic relevant to today, on the Soviet proposed and rejected amendments by the UN, “We in the United States admire those who fight for their convictions, and the Soviet delegation has fought for their convictions. But in the older democracies we have learned that sometimes we bow to the will of the majority. In doing that, we do not give up our convictions. We continue sometimes to persuade, and eventually we may be successful. But we know that we have to work together and we have to progress. So, we believe that when we have made a good fight, and the majority is against us, it is perhaps better tactics to try to cooperate,” p. 127.