It is good that we are speaking out, demonstrating and organizing, but we have to prepared to do it for at least a couple generations. We are fighting phenomena that took fold after fold to unfold, and unfolding them, or attempting to unfold them, might take all the folds we have left.

God is rubble now, and broken bones and torn flesh beneath the rubble.

But we would collapse, Nietzsche told us, if we became thoroughly familiar with the whole of it, the whole of the suffering of existence. As we can see from those who are in the realm of suffering’s maximum–and who have collapsed. Suffering’s maximum is not the same as suffering’s whole, however, so some still stand. Our standing with them must be a preparing ourselves for the hardest. Approaching the maximum.

If we are waiting for a leader, or a hero, or a group of leaders or heroes to lead us out of this genocide, this inhumanity, we are lost. The hero is the next person you meet who can face one shred of this inhumanity without collapsing.

The very “way of life” of the United States or other nations that see it as emblematic or as a model is genocidal. Perhaps…more than perhaps…”nation” itself means–genocide.

There is a finite number of times we can fail at preventing genocide. Very finite.

Nothing is settled. Everything should be unsettled, in fact. The settlers, first of all, and the oppressed and onlookers in their contention with the settlers. Beware of your own use of the phrase “to settle.” Beware of the compromises, the neglect of the other and of history, the violence it can hold. Unsettling, yes, but nothing is settled.

There are too many criminals in genocide to prosecute, and too much ambiguity in the criminality. What must be prosecuted or condemned is the (settler-colonial) system itself.

We see people going about the same dreams as our forebears, when it could be the dreams themselves that are the issue. We might have to dream to dream anew, or wait through the nightmare for an indefinite period of time, without dreams.

The genocide is combined with femicide, homicide, infanticide, ecocide, domicide, politicide, epistemicide and, alas–among a host of other deaths and killings, inevitably–suicide.

It would be a bit unreasonable to ask that everyone acknowledge the genocide. The genocide would not be possible in the first place without its deniers. The committers of genocide themselves have trouble admitting to genocide as genocide, as dehumanization is constitutive of its perpetuation, and you would have to admit to killing humans to admit to genocide.

If someone is truly supporting the genocide out of cowardice, then I am afraid for that person, and I am afraid for that person’s friends and family.

Sometimes an irrational belief if perfectly, robustly justified. Like the belief that we could have done more when we very well could not have.

If you do not have the wherewithal to discuss and fight the genocide with the next person you meet, the least you can do is show that person that she is worthy to be alive.

In the eternal recurrence, there will be the same deadening oblivion in the next round as there was in the last. Awakening has to happen once and now for it to happen again.