Molly Charles-Reflections

    Distancing is a survival mechanism we all learn through experience, at times innately, the connotation of it being negative or positive is determined by context; learnt perceptions and responses to distancing from threat be it cultural or social; and it is both individual and group experience, often feeding on to one another is a circular fashion only to be broken when the stimuli or context evoking the act of distancing disappear or looses it strength to evoke a response. Distancing often can be physical or mental or combination of both, it is possible we as individuals may learn to give preference for one over the other, this choice can be personal, cultural, survival or all of these combined. For example, there is often a saying when faced with threat the response could be either fight or flight, within this example there is a common factor that is the act of distancing. When we decide to flee, we acknowledge our fear or the threat and decide distance would bring safe...

  War or Conflict is not just about resource control, identity supremacy or even land control it can also be carrying on business in the evolving tech based military industry; or it can be multiple factors acting in combination based on actors involved. The onslaught of Israel on Gaza is linked to desire to depopulate the place and ensure Greater Israel and in the process achieve also the goal of annihilation of an ethnic religious group, Israelis have an inherent hatred towards and for which they believe they have religious justifications which even sanctifies war crimes or genocide carried out against Palestinians. It is an issue about Israeli society as a whole, how it evolved and what it assumed its existential goal is – to recreate past called Greater Israel. The skewed mentality of assuming Israelis have the right to depopulate Palestine, is not linked to one party or a few individuals it is the raison d’etre of almost entire population. There is one question to the great vi...

    Dear All,   This is to share the link of new sub-blog started by me to share my thoughts on Palestine, and the present-day Tech Military based global governance, which is selective in perception and action at its best and sanctions inhumanity with all its might at its worst.  It is an instance in time, when democracy is turning to be the ugly face of Autocracy with Pride. Link:   g4genocidepactmc-post-when-tech-silences Molly Charles

                                                                                                                                                   Peace is something everyone can sense, and yet, find difficult to define. Its complexity, and simplicity is reflected in our restricted definition of peace as an absence of war/violence, even though we sense it is far beyond that.    Peace is a concept that exists beyond the boundaries of empirical reality, but we seek it within the realms of empirical reality, where power has the final say. We conceive it as a static state, where a world view palatable to u...