Thread by @homemadeguitars

I look at the questions of race, of Israel and Palestine, of extreme wealth and poverty, and I am completely without a solution. If I could flip a switch and make a world with no race wars and massacres, what would that be?
I don't understand what drives people.

2. Look at the Tulsa massacre. Beyond abstractions like racism, what causes this? If you have it, how does one cure it? Jealousy, hate, resentment - I am without solution. I see what happened. I see Rwanda and their genocide in similar terms.
This was an attempted genocide.

3. We have two votes already for greed & power, and yes, but it's connected directly to otherness as well. To my white person's eyes, Hutus and Tutsis look like the "same race" and yet there was an other-ing which led directly to slaughter, as in Tulsa and other places.

4. The people who committed the atrocities didn't gain anything to speak of except the doing of it, to not have to look at a successful other, no real gain that I can see, so greed isn't quite right. Power, that's more direct, for sure. It was a power trip like few others.

Starting the first time somebody plowed a field, and slowly over millennia, the entire Earth has been reduced to Property (of some human) and each and every person is currently occupying a designated spot on Earth.
So, like, if your part gets submerged in the ocean, well, 🤷

6. Before the white folks got here, the nations before them were many, and they quarreled, people killed one another over otherness - it may be hard wired, I don't know.
I think we could manage actions a lot better than we do. It's a lot more important what somebody does.

7. So, back about when I was born, this thing happened in Palestine and the current mess was born.
I can't get there from here. I'm sorry. We have to start with today's mess.
And I just don't see a way out without some people being allowed to occupy some other spot on Earth.

8. Under the current global economy, the nation / state, subdivision, subdivision, county, township - everybody has their assigned spot, and if it really sucks, well, tough shit, buddy. That's your assigned spot.

9. And I have nothing to offer except to comment that it appears to me that such a system would be bound to create conflict.
But - I've got my assigned spot, and I'd just as soon be left alone here, and that's how everybody else feels, and... Some problems are difficult.

10. They're real. They're problems. I don't know how to solve them without some redistributing of humans, and I don't see that happening.
I'm just thinking. Nothing else.

PS. There are some people who do not have assigned places. They are known as nomads, homeless people, refugees... There are probably some classes I've missed.

Indigenous people.