Why you are not made to feel the suffering in the world. Let’s reflect on the following for a few minutes: ‘After Israeli bombing, a 19yr-old woman was pinned inside 2 concrete slabs, her body severed: she died after hrs of pain’, Mahmoud Basal, Palestinian civilian defense.

What this woman went through sounds as bad as the medieval practice of ‘quartering’.

Israel has created the largest torture chamber on earth. We live in a system that reduces individuals and whole groups to abstractions, because the system we live in optimizes not for human well-being, but for wealth extraction.

In the mainstream news victims of imperialism, like Israeli supremacist aggression, are always statistics. They die and they get killed or they perish, but their suffering receives little attention. There are no details and the reader is not made to feel what they went through.

The result is that readers are somewhat informed, but their nervous systems aren’t engaged or activated.

This is to balance two things: The system encourages the spread of information because it keeps people busy and media is a product, it has its role in the wealth extraction system. But at the same time people cannot get so upset they start overthrowing the system. Sterile news keeps people… politically sterile.

And truly insane levels of suffering continue. The machine grinds down anyone standing in the way of its wealth extraction. This woman was literally squeezed into mush. You’re not supposed to fully feel that.

You can’t function properly inside the system if you fully feel these events on a regular basis.

You’d snap.