Let Yourself Be Shattered By Gaza

Let Yourself Be Shattered By Gaza

Dec. 12, 2024

U.S. and ISRAEL IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

In the suburbs they live with animals in their homes who they treat like people and love like children while ignoring real children in Gaza.

They'll take a baby dog away from its mother and hack its ancient canine conditioning to mistake a western nuclear family for its wolf pack in order to fill the void in their hearts which yearns for unconditional love, all while hoarding their own love so far deep in their chest caves that they cannot feel anything for a Palestinian burn victim in a bombed-out hospital who is screaming because there's no painkiller.

We have so far isolated ourselves from nature that we need to fill our homes with potted plants and docile, domesticated animals just to feel whole.

We drink our wine and chuckle at memes and talk to our dogs like we talk to babies while the world turns to fire and feral dogs feast on corpses in Gaza.

These last 14 months have shattered me. Shattered me beyond the power of recollection.

But sometimes it's good to be shattered.

Sometimes it's good to be dashed to the floor and cracked wide open so that life can get a word in.

Sometimes the heart must be broken to smash through the calluses and cataracts which accumulate on its surface and return us to our original tenderness.

This world will break your heart and then pour plant medicine into the cracks.

It will show you a dead Palestinian child, and then show you a white kite in the sky.

It will drop you to your knees screaming in anguish, cursing a God you don't even believe in, bawling your eyes out, only to open them and stare in wonder
at a dandelion growing through the cracks in the concrete.

It will annihilate everything you believed about humanity in a blazing holocaust, and then leave you blinking and bewildered in a mysterious universe of unfathomable beauty, the rusted chains of preconception incinerated from your eyes.

Again and again and again we are shattered to dust and scattered to the wind by the cruelty of this world, slowly learning that, if we can fully surrender to the shattering, it will return us to that primordial clarity we abandoned long ago when we set out to create this mess in the first place.

Let yourself be shattered by heartbreak, by loss, and by Gaza.

Let your whole universe be reduced to ashes.

Let it all die away, and then stand up, and rejoin the fight, eyes no longer clouded by anything that could be destroyed by truth.

Reading by Tim Foley

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