I don't feel like there's anything I can do, at all. I have despaired of protesting and other forms of "activism." If we do go to war, or if we don't, I will not have made an impact even if I try. I couldn't organize a dolls' tea party.

I do remember the way I felt when I first went to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, before it got all interactive -- when it was only black and white pictures of the concentration camps. It was horrifying. It made me want to do something. (Nowadays what I want to do is plug every single motherfscking supporter of Israeli actions in Palestine, just to show people who kill people because people they know were killed that killing people is wrong.)

Anyway, by one person's reference or another I found these photo essays on Baghdad as it stands and the Gulf War as it was rarely seen on TV.

I don't even know why I'm bothering to post these. I don't believe that anyone reading this will affect the pending war, either. I don't think that even if we all got together we could stop it.

So just look. Look and feel bad. That's all I'm doing right now. Maybe it will prove to be more worthwhile than not looking. Probably it won't. Posted by Gus at January 28, 2003 10:26 PM | TrackBack