You’re correct, we do. We all assist the operation of this war machine. It may not be in our control, but that does not nullify it. We bloody our hands to live instead of choosing to die, and we are all culpable to an extent for it. Some more than others, though.

People in all societies have to ignore a multitude of moral contradictions in order to live normal lives. That is the manufactured consent all states impose upon their people.

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We do if we pay taxes. Our tax money is going to funding a genocide whether we like it or not. But we can also help change the current administration’s policies and be part of the resistance, whether small or large, both help.

https://www.ceasefirenow.org/

https://ceasefiretoday.com/

https://uscpr.org/take-action/

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

• “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963