Do you feel safer after the US bombed Iran?
I don't.
I also don't know if it was the "right or wrong" thing to do, because I don't have anywhere near enough information. Information pushed through the internet, is not trustworthy. What I do have though is my own past experiences and the belief that the US government, and all governments, do not have the best interest of humanity in mind. They don't care who lives and dies, as long as they are able to keep their position, their control, their money machines printing.
I find it off-putting that so many people trust governments when it comes to these kinds of actions, despite not trusting the same government with decisions that are far less significant. If a government can't even be trusted to make good decisions for their people on home soil, what makes people think that they will make good decisions in places on the other side of the world?
How can the US bomb a country and then say they aren't at war with that country?
While the charade might work at spinning the story to the average American, it is quite nonsensical. And, given all the history under the belt, all of this is likely to increase volatility, not lessen it.
The world is rapidly becoming more dangerous.
*I don't want to live in some post-apocalyptic world, decimated by war and nuclear fallout, and I don't want my daughter to live in it either. Yet, despite everyone seemingly thinking the same on this, it seems pretty inevitable that at some point, that is what is going to happen. And many even fancy themselves to survive in that kind of world.
They are fooling themselves.
People don't seem to fully comprehend how reliant we are on a whole range of social agreements to function. For example, if there was suddenly no government, do you think you would be okay? Maybe. However, will you be okay when 99% of everyone else surrounding you is not? Are you self-sufficient to the point that if attacked by an angry and hungry mob, you would be able to defend?
The average person can't even sit in traffic without losing their shit - just imagine what happens if the pressure rises in an environment where there is no order, and it becomes everyone for themselves. Sure, perhaps eventually we might be able to cobble something together to function, but how long will that take, and what kind of pathway will it take to get there? How many will actually survive. And none will survive unscathed.
It would make the Wild West seem like a walk through fields of flowers.
It is interesting though, as we have a huge amount of information available to us, but it really only serves to increase our confidence in our beliefs. We feel certain about situations we don't actually understand other than the information we have been fed from the media.
Dunning-Kruger effect anyone?
And we know the media lies for profit - and still we feel confident in what we have learned from them, because it supports our belief system. It is like the belief that international laws should be followed, unless it is "our side" breaking them for what we consider a good reason.
"The reason I didn't pay my taxes to you taxman, is because I want more money to spend."
Totally understandable. On your way.
And that makes a fuckload more sense, doesn't it? But hey, if you think the US government makes good decisions for its people, including bombing other countries, then you also think they make good decisions on taxes, and abortion laws, and corporate kickbacks, and lobby groups, and policing, and infrastructure and everything else they do.
Again, maybe bombing Iran was the right thing to do, maybe not. But I assume that those nuclear facilities were not empty and people died in the process. And if you believe that the Iranian government is evil, then you should also believe that they force people to do things that they might not want to do, right? But civilians and scientists are acceptable collateral damage, as long as they are on the other side of the world.
The problem is of course, we don't live a hundred years ago, so war doesn't stay on the other side of the world, and it isn't only fought by professional militaries. We live in a world that is already polarized and getting worse, with radicalisation far simpler, and amplified messaging through a thousand different channels, cheap.
Everyone has an opinion. Mine is:
The world is not safer.
Taraz
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