Don’t Think
Twitter remains a go-to space for reasons I’ve not been able to figure out. But let me try. For one, I get to bear witness to the state of the world as it plays out. And get to see the world and its events through the eyes and hearts of a range of human-shaped beings, from most corners of the world.
Take the genocide being committed in the biblical Canaan. In the Twitter-verse, there’s a bunch of people in Gaza reminding us that they are still alive. This is a good thing.
How much longer they will continue to remain alive is anyone’s guess. Or in this case; it’s known their lives are in the hands of an army and political project hell-bent on exterminating every shred of Palestine and its human-shaped beings.
Now in real-life, I am asked what I think about what’s going on in Palestine. Thank you for asking good sir, but no. I don’t think.
What is there to think on. This is a genocide being committed not just in full view of the world but with it’s explicit support. Think? I think not, already it has been thought out for us. Now the genocide is in progress and soon enough, we will have what comes next. Likely, also carefully thought out for us.
Let’s not forget that while a genocide is being committed in Canaan, the world cheers rugby in the city of light. Because as I’m told, by people who think; we are powerless to stop this. There’s contracts to be fulfilled and television rights worth millions and jobs will be lost. Flights will be cancelled, think of the economic costs if these players just stopped playing. None of us can afford for this to stop.
Think? I don’t. All I can do is imagine. Imagine if a mere 660 human-shaped beings could change the course of all of human history. Now, imagine if each one of the players in this world cup, every one of them just stopped and refused to play this game while a genocide goes on a mere 2000 miles away.
Hard to imagine that right? Maybe less to ask me what I think than to ask yourself why you can’t imagine such a beautiful thing for the world.
So, thank you for asking good sir, but no. I don’t think.
Don’t Think is a reminder that thinking might be overrated if not unnecessary for human life on earth, circa 2023.
