A thoughtful and insightful article Carlos. The capture of society by neo liberalism means the outpouring of anger against Brian Thompson is akin to the venting of a pressure valve, from a machine that whirs on remorselessly into an even more horrific future.
Indeed, oppressing others oppresses the oppressor equally, even if they can't name it. They're tools in a hierarchy of brutality, and this also is dehumanizing. But nobody was innocent, in my understanding of the definition of innocence, in terms of the ex-military soldiers killed when the paragliders visited that party. Which also was offensive to any reasonable person in that it was located right there, spilling trance music into the Friday morning Muslim holy day soundscape, baiting any self-respecting oppressed person sitting behind the fence under siege since 2007. What's more, the piece of land where they were taking drugs and raving / having casual sex was depopulated when the grandmas of those paragliders were ethnically cleansed into Gaza. From this perspective, the violence was awkward, but not entirely unprovoked.
A thoughtful and insightful article Carlos. The capture of society by neo liberalism means the outpouring of anger against Brian Thompson is akin to the venting of a pressure valve, from a machine that whirs on remorselessly into an even more horrific future.
Indeed, oppressing others oppresses the oppressor equally, even if they can't name it. They're tools in a hierarchy of brutality, and this also is dehumanizing. But nobody was innocent, in my understanding of the definition of innocence, in terms of the ex-military soldiers killed when the paragliders visited that party. Which also was offensive to any reasonable person in that it was located right there, spilling trance music into the Friday morning Muslim holy day soundscape, baiting any self-respecting oppressed person sitting behind the fence under siege since 2007. What's more, the piece of land where they were taking drugs and raving / having casual sex was depopulated when the grandmas of those paragliders were ethnically cleansed into Gaza. From this perspective, the violence was awkward, but not entirely unprovoked.