Critical moments in history - now [Content Warning - violence, suffering]

There are moments in time - moments in history, personal and global - that are critical moments when decisions are made that are fateful. Examples of these moments include     the decision by the USA to invade North Korea after the North had been driven out of South Korea,     the failure of the USA to support Vietnamese independence after World War (part) Two,     the July  crisis before World War (part) One,     and     decisions to go to war and assassinations and violence generally. 

The failure to take early action on what was climate change in the 1980s has led to our current egregious and existential climate crisis - although actions are still available that could help (see my weekly news reports for links).

The decisions and in-decisions that allowed the rise of the n____ in Germany in the 1930s are particularly to the forefront of many people's minds of late, given the war (see most of my weekly news reports over the last few years for links) by extreme right wing groups now on democracy - including their transgenocide.

There is another area where a genocide is still being perpetuated: burma. 

An article which well summarises the situation is “military violence in [burma] is worsening amid fierce resistance and international ambivalence”, at https://medium.com/the-conversation/military-violence-in-myanmar-is-worsening-amid-fierce-resistance-and-international-ambivalence-48dab96d7ac0.

In a few years or decades, how are those decision-not-makers going to feel, looking back at their non-decisions? How are WE going to feel about having allowed it? 

This is not like World War (part) Two: we all know that the climate crisis and the two genocides mentioned above are underway. What are we - including you, Good and Gentle Reader, going to decide to do - or not do?

 

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Finally, remember: we need to be more human being rather than human doing.