#interrelationality

The piece gives the example of a person, in a room with their animals, and how if that person were to shatter a cup, the animals would have various reactions- being startled, coming to investigate the noise, hissing, barking, etc., and those reactions would inform this persons understanding of their reality and the reality of the conscious beings around him. If he were to shatter it and none of his animals reacted he would reasonably question his reality. It holds the reality of the world in place for us to see others interacting with our actions/behaviors and us reacting to their actions/behaviors.[If you feel alone, isolated, alienated currently, how does the above resonate with your current experience? Are you acting in ways that you don’t feel are being acknowledged by others in the reality you share with them?] And this shared reality isn’t an inconsequential thing. Our disconnection from that shared reality does cause harmful, anti social behavior that will affect others around us. It implies that not only do we need each other, we are apart of one another.

Bringing this back to Palestine, it’s made me realize why I feel so much anger and despair is because we share a reality with people who don’t acknowledge what’s happening in Palestine is genocide that needs to be stopped, which cannot be argued otherwise. But the people who deny this reality are gaslighting us about reality and asking us for our support while they are gaslighting our collective reality. And the worst part is they have systemic power over us. If we continue to allow them to.