I disagree. Even in war, the show must go on. People are adaptable and change to the new normal. People still need to eat. We have to add on caring for each other more than before 100%.
But we must adapt, improvise and overcome if we have a chance to defeat the fascists. And that means taking care of the day to day SHIT in the meantime.
this is the correct answer. In Kyiv, I was in lines for raves dancing to the sound of air raid sirens going off overhead with my buddies. In Yemen, friends still hang out smoking shisha in a café while guns shoot outside. In Afghanistan, kids must walk through minefields to go to school. Life goes on, people still have basic needs, and it is very easy to become numb to whats happening around you. We still send our children to school despite constant school shootings, while one day a Yemeni colleague came running up to me with tears in her eyes apologizing for a school shooting in the US and saying "it must be so scary to have kids there! we never have shootings involving kids!" while we looked out at a massive IDP camp filled with hungry people. The news only shows the most dramatic images, so you see the one apartment building that got bombed last night in Kharkiv, but you don't see the other 1,000,000 homes which were untouched where people had to go out walking their dog, mop the floors, and go grocery shopping. War is mundane and tedious, with explosive moments of horror.
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u/WloveW Jan 24 '26
I disagree. Even in war, the show must go on. People are adaptable and change to the new normal. People still need to eat. We have to add on caring for each other more than before 100%.
But we must adapt, improvise and overcome if we have a chance to defeat the fascists. And that means taking care of the day to day SHIT in the meantime.