I think the situation's incredibly complicated and not helped by "real guilt" or blame constantly placed, as if righteous anger does more than express itself; it's interesting that ISIS isn't even mentioned in this discussion, as if the entire situation is the result of neoliberal manipulation, nothing on the ground, the peoples in Syria for example might be complicit as best. And this just isn't true. Nor is it going to be the case that people will stop warfare, rich or poor - ISIS isn't really all that rich and they will continue; nor is it the case that the refugees are all farmers etc. - the issue is What is to be done? And this requires work everywhere by all parties. I don't excuse capital, neolib, or fundamentalist Islam for that matter; the history is horrible; it's terrible the US is trying to get rid of immigrants here and now - it's obscene - it's also obscene that Assad is killing "his" own country in the name of who knows what. Johannes points out the intractable - how does a country absorb close to a million people? What's always overlooked, I'm guilty of it more than anyone, is the inertia of human beings - the revolution I don't think is coming in the slightest; capital isn't going to give up capital; warfare isn't going away; relgions aren't suddenly going to go tolerant. Don't forget a LOT of this is driven by both overpopulation and global warming - the dought in the mideast is worse than that in the U.S. west for example - people everywhere are running out of space and food. I would hope in Europe the situation might revolve around an EU effort to see the problem as a totality, not X- refugees in Germany, Y- in France, etc. etc. I would also HOPE TO HELL that the United States (here I spell US out) would open itself to taking in refugees as well - but look at our history - even the Jews were turned away during WWII.
We can't keep going over our local psychogeographies, I think, no matter how much they inform us; being a Jew, losing people in the Holocaust, for me is _meaningless_ in this regard, not in terms obviously of mourning what transpired - but this very thing perhaps suffocates an ability to see a bit clearer - again - What is to be done? And why is everyone blamed but ISIS? And isn't this kind of a problematic colonization itself - how dare we blame them for anything?
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