🤯 The disconnect is real...
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🍊 I just popped into the greengrocer to buy some breakfast ingredients:
Me: I can't believe you're open on the King's birthday! Don't you have any respect for his majesty?
Owner: He can go f*ck himself for all I care. There's only one holiday I will celebrate.
Me: Oh?
Owner: It's ANZAC day. I will never work on ANZAC day. It's the most important day in the year. I stop everything and make sure I'm part of all the marches and events.
(He goes into a full monologue about how his grandfather was in the war)
Me: War has impacted so many of our families.
Owner: It's terrible what happens to those who served our country. They don't get looked after. They sacrificed everything for us. Paid the ultimate price. And what do they get? Nothing!
🍊 By now he's weighing my items 🍊
Owner: It's the same with the Vietnam vets in the States. They get nothing. You're from America yeah?
Me: No. I was born in Sweden but grew up in Israe|.
Owner: Ah...yeah...
Me: And I'm completely pro-Pa|estine.
Owner:
Me: And doing everything I can to stop the gen0cide.
Owner: The gen0cide? It's never going to stop. I don't see the point in worrying about what's going on over there. We have enough issues in Australia to care about.
Me: 🤯
The disconnect is next level.....
Oh and as I walked out he says: Jaffa oranges are definitely the best in the world.
So next time I see him I'll ask him if he knows who planted the orchards. I think it might be a good way to redirect the conversation.
It is funny. But so not!! It is infuriating and heartbreaking.
That attitude of “over there… so what… their suffering is nothing to do with us. We have enough problems. We have no hearts or minds left to even extend any thought or care to others”.
That mentality… so widespread. So shortsighted. So sad. Because deep in their minds and sub conscious, they must feel how terribly hostile & lonely this world must be because they “know” ( given their own attitude) that should they ever need help or are persecuted, no one will care. Exactly like they don’t care for others now.
The comfort of "us" breeds hostility to "them", so the anti-social poison infects and spreads. Despite mass education, the degradation of the legacy media (now less of an honest broker than ever) means we still face "feelings" as dominant in the official discourse, reflecting experiences or beliefs formed over a long period, impervious to truth, and fostered by vested interests. Fortunately the revelation of the truth of genocide is now apparent to large numbers, who expect their leaders to respond. But how do we connect with the "fed up" voters, prioritising their local concerns over Gaza but viscerally anti- towards parliamentary politics?