Genocide is a spectator sport

Genocide is a spectator sport Like everything else. I think we’re all going to find out what it was like living in Roman times when gladiators and Roman armies entertained the pre tv audiences of the day. When smoke rose from the chimneys of Auschwitz and Dachau, when Gaza, Armenians, Romanians, Rwandans, Serbs, indigenous peoples in every nook and cranny of the earth, all of them valiant, valor, honorable for the kings of money. We’ve accepted all this in our name. We hear and see it all, like an incessant drumbeat and dance, pounding throughout our nights, flashes of light like the sun going off and on, something’s coming, it calls us by the names we were given when time began. Sent from my iPad

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