The U.S. military has an extremism problem. Full stop. Anyone who denies this is uninformed. But that’s not it. That’s not the whole tweet. An inadequately short thread.
Until we stop thinking of ourselves as separate, from each other and from the earth, we will continue to walk a path of collective self-destruction. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
A 24 hour emotional truce would be a really good idea about now. Everybody saying that today I will work on surrendering my own shortcomings and give up patrolling what I perceive to be everybody else’s for a change. One day. Just one day for a much needed de-escalation and reset
there are more geniuses and visionaries alive now than any previous point in human history, but because we approach resource distribution from a scarcity and hoarding mindset, most of them have neither time nor money to realize their dreams
imagine the world we could build
.@ACLU The 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” THIS is “cruel and unusual punishment!” truthout.org/articles/i-was-…