запощу что-то по-английски с важным видом
If you want to start blaming the refugees, just think about this for a moment:
they’re running from this exact nightmare. They’re running from
stabbings, shootings, explosions, horror. Now
the stabbings, the shootings, the explosions, the horror are following them.
What is scarier, I wonder, to realize that the atrocities are in your own house, or
to realize that there’s no way to escape them? I don’t know.
I’m not a refugee, but I’m running. Mostly from ultra-right ideas,
I am sad in Russia because of them. But France has all the same issues,
as it turns out, and so does the US. And now the sticky nightmare that
makes living in most parts of Asia and Africa unbearable is available for home delivery.
Where does one hide from it? Nowhere.
Today it’s most obvious to me that the struggle is inclusive.
It’s not like there was Paris and outside of it, utter darkness.
Why do we think of Paris but not Beirut? Sushi for dinner and Josh Homme live
— I like it a lot, but none of this is the goal of the struggle.
It’s just some intermediate result. And if one
just eats sushi for dinner and goes to cool shows,
if one does not think of education for women who have to live in IS territories,
or of saving Syrian gay men from executions, the world will not change.
The world will stay fragile. You can't treat the world in a way that divides it:
where there’s sushi, there’s freedom, and the rest is wilderness.
This way, the wilderness remains outside of your window.
And you can get killed while eating sushi for dinner or listening to Josh Homme.
The world does not work as a video game, where the ultimate level's boss is
the biggest, the worst, and you already have all the skills to beat them.
Hate is something round, where everything comes together. The struggle is inclusive.
That’s what I take away from this. It makes me less afraid.
I see a logical succession, and I see that things are connected.
I feel that if I try hard enough and not just lament the missing sushi,
I can become part of the solution. I will not put the Eiffel tower of the French flag
on my profile picture. I live 15 minutes away from the 9/11 site, and
I see how much capitalist exaltation the aftermath of a tragedy can bring.
I don’t mind, as long as it offers closure. But my goal is different.
I want to love the world, and I refuse to be scared of it, even on days like these.