Posts tagged peace

I’m not sure how I feel about Memorial Day.  All I can see it that it supports war and nationalism. Neither of which I identify with.  Yet if I were to say otherwise, I would be instantly labeled as unpatriotic, as someone who doesn’t support our troops, that I don’t honor peoples sacrifices.  The only response I can give; it is for those reasons that I cannot support Memorial Day.  When I see people honoring soldiers, it is not because they are reminding themselves of the atrocity of war, and that for the memory of those lives killed and ruined because of war they must work harder to prevent and stop it.  I only see people furthering their hatred of others, and enforcing their ideals of murdering others to somehow save themselves. It’s a us vs. them Memorial Day. 

I could be wrong, maybe a lot of people don’t treat Memorial Day in this way. 

It ties in very strongly with one of my last posts.  “Our old mechanistic paradigm with its ingrained dualism and separation has made people see the world as a collection of objects to exploit…Such a vision is not only inaccurate but destructive, making our relationship with nature and the rest of the world into a struggle for dominance.” -Diane Dreher … and that’s how I feel about war and nationalism.