this is our world

[harborshore]

What the fuck are we doing to it?

Horrific racist riots in Moscow, and there was just a suicide bombing in Stockholm. The guy doing it died, but no one else, which is practically a fucking miracle considering the season and that it's Saturday night and that it happened in central Stockholm. I cannot deal. I cannot fucking deal.





This I want: I want people to think for themselves. It makes it harder to believe the easy answers.

Actually, I want two more things as well: give love, when you can. Stay alive, and give love.

Comments

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I am so--I can't even. *hugs you tight* ETA: It's just--hatred, you know? It's terrifying. The riots in Moscow are in many ways more upsetting, but I can't take the hatred inherent in both these acts.

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

yes. did you see the young girls in the photos? the young boys? hatred, and stupidity, and - there's a story on both sides, and somebody on the top stirring and heating it. and maybe tomorrow there will be retaliation, too, and it will be also horrific. and nobody ever learns anything, nobody. and i'm just - what to do? what do you do not to be a part of it? i have no idea.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

As much as I want to stand on top of something with a very loud megaphone and yell until people listen, I can't see a way to make it happen. It's like Candide said: you tend your garden, meaning you make your part of life on earth a good one, you care for people, you speak up against prejudice. It's--it feels so paltry, especially today, like empty words, but if we can get enough people to not stand idly by, enough people who don't perpetuate this cycle, I think that's the best chance we have. The only chance. I love you, my darling. Hate terrifies me so much, but there are people who learn, there are.