You have a idea of war informed by Hollywood and WW2 documentaries, war is both more normal and more horrifying than you think.

Baudrillard has a (3?) part essay on how the gulf war never really happened, which by that he meant how we in the West understood the war is that of a media event rather than that of real war. At least that’s the heavily simplified version of it. Alot of people’s imagery of a war is essentially like drone footage and headlines about Gaza, Few of us can comprehend the idea of being in an active war. I have relatives who have and their anecdotes make war seem more normal and scary the same time.

We really do not know what we are getting ourselves into.

Curious, whats a “better world” to you?

Mostly spent time alone, I was too naive to understand how broken I really was, would be nice to back to that

When I travel I sometimes get sad seeing how far Western culture as come and changed societies, feels like the McWorld has won (Even as someone who aligns very much with that culture). Would be hypocritical to judge them though