working and the country I I think that there are times that we don't really acknowledge that we are living in a post genocidal country and a post like we started off with stolen land and stolenlabor yep that's that's the history right so per perhaps and I'm not even
And it was greeted by many people within the deaf community as a terrible affront in which they felt that the implant was erasing deafness. That it was genocidal . That it was going to wipe out the deaf community.
usually lumped together with the herds, oxen and sheep and or livestock. Looking at the available evidence from antiquity one might developed a hypothesis that most wars at the time were genocidal in character." What do they have in mind? Well, just think of the Old Testament which has a genocide every few pages commanded, by the way, by God. And so, the Amalekites, Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, and so on were put to the edge of the sword, every last man, woman, and child massacred. Now I don't believe that these events actually
a very beautiful place. So island to island, Manhattan to Tanna; I'm thinking a lot more they had major genocidal wars? Why haven't they had in a way all the things that the West has gone through? One could argue because there's enough space. If you don't like this
I think it would be pretty easy to stop most of the mass killing in the world if we had a little political wor-, will and were willing to do to take a few basic steps to change the international context for genocidal , or would-be genocidal leaders. If I'm right that it's politics, it's not just a volca-, a human volcanic eruption, and if I'm right, then one leader or a small group of people make the decision, and that they do so when they
of some European countries and elsewhere, to make a decision to change the international system and change the cost/benefit calculus or the sy-, the cost/benefit incentives that would-be genocidal leaders phase. It really could be done that easily. Now we have to tell the truth about what's radical.
This was in Northern Kenya. This was a woman who was a survivor of the genocidal violence that occurred in, I think, 2008. Now having these series of portraits allows me to segue into a very, very important topic, and that's the whole issue of maternal health care.
getting closer to being fixed because we started off with genocide and slavery let's be clear y right so how does even a post genocidal country say that they were ever whole and how does a justice system that was designed to contain and
Then civilization will die. And in the end, whether you're a genocidal maniac or whether you're an altruist and philanthropist will make no difference in the end. There won't be anybody around to remember anything that anyone's ever done.
There is some intention to the malice. So when you have the evil person we're thinking the dark lord Sauron from Lord of the Rings you know dressed in black with orcs and fiery volcanoes that's obviously evil. But likewise in our world we have people like who are serial killers or genocidal tyrants or people who we know to be evil. And when you can point to something which is evil, what happens is that the good of the world can rally around and they can resist the evil.
That is, it's dangerous. It's costly. It may get us in trouble with other nations who are supporting the genocidal regime, and what we want to work with them politically.
is more to do with economic opportunity and blah, blah, blah. But in terms of hardcore racists who set fire to your house and break down your door and put you eventually into genocidal camps, money is really irrelevant, because, as we know-- as I know.
And so these debates are ongoing, but in Rwanda people generally feel that the United Nations and international community let them down. So the killings began, and there were about 100 days of genocidal killings all throughout the country with very popular involvement. So killings on the ground, we call it low tech killing with machetes and clubs and other household and farming
Their languages are also being destroyed. Well, under Ronald Reagan, the US supported a genocidal attacks on the highlands, and the Mayan
or capitalism, or whatever you want to say, and you start focusing on the human beings who actually make the decisions, you can begin to think very differently about policy responses. And how to make other leaders, the future or would-be genocidal leaders make other decisions in the future. And this brings us back to the problem of politics. It begins because political leaders have political goals of social transformation, of dominance, power, of creating a utopia
If you're willing to target the killers, themselves, that is, the leaders of the countries, you'll have a doubly effective means of preventing them from doing what they do. Any genocidal leader and those serving in high-level positions should know that if they b-, undertake a genocidal campaign against a group of people that they will have bounties placed on their heads of sizable amount so that they know they can never go to sleep sure that they will wake up the next day. Now, the two questions about such a pre-, such a thing: would it be effective,
It's when communication revolutions come together with energy revolutions -- when they converge -- those are the pivotal points in history. They change human consciousness. They expand the empathic horizons, even with all the genocidal blowbacks, it keeps moving forward. I'll give you an example of energy/communication convergence. You read about the Sumerians at the university in your cultural anthropology course? The Sumerians, ancient Mesopotamia, which
"Oh, that's what they're like." And we kind of accept that. But the second problem with stupidity is that it's far harder to identify. So, for example, not everything is the Dark Lord Sorrow. Not everybody is a serial killer. Not everybody is a genocidal tyrant. But in our time, of course, we have real life evil people. For example, I'm thinking in the UK, we had the Jimmy Savile scandal. In 2012, Jimmy Savile was exposed as abusing children. And of
time quite a bit, and then it's not easy to write about it, but it's very interesting to think about. And I would love to find the because it's much more safe, or at least it seems more safe. I mean, it has its own perils, you know. Because you might become a genocidal murderer, you
Unfortunately, to do this, you need to be willing to use force, and you have to guarantee that you're going to use it. And things you have to, and the, the thing you have to make clear is that if a genocidal leaders begin to slaughter their people, that you, the United States, NATO, will use their military forces as they did in Bosnia to degrade the militaries of these, of the states that undertake the perpetration of genocide. Target military facilities, munitions, forces, stay
what they did in c-, city after city. If we stop one genocide, it's a thousand times, maybe more than a thousand times, more productive in the life, in the saving of lives. So, all, all this on the margins there'll be disagreements. Is this real eliminationism? Is this genocidal ? Do we want to enact a policy in this case? That's always the case. Let's do the easy cases. Let's do it one time. And let's do it right.
Do we want to enact a policy in this case? That's always the case. Let's do the easy cases. Let's do it one time. And let's do it right. And if we do it one time, it'll be a signal, it'll be a signal and a lesson for the next would be genocidal leader. That's why I think it would be really easy if we prevent or stop genocides, it will be produced, us, if we make it serious that this is not just an isolated event, it will produce a virtuous cycle in which each will learn it will be, they'll
It does a lot of good in other ways; the World Health Organization, and many other things they do good, but it's an en-, it actually enables elimination assaults more than it is, the suspicion is strong enough that it's taking place. If they say so, the countries that are, the country that is, that is suspected of undertaking a genocidal or eliminationist
would've never happened. If you bomb, and you make it clear you're going to do it again, many would-be killers would think twice about starting. If you're willing to target the killers, themselves, that is, the leaders of the countries, you'll have a doubly effective means of preventing them from doing what they do. Any genocidal leader and those serving in high-level positions should know that if they b-, undertake a genocidal campaign against a group of people that they will have bounties placed on their heads of
And if we do it one time, it'll be a signal, it'll be a signal and a lesson for the next would be genocidal leader. That's why I think it would be really easy if we prevent or stop genocides, it will be produced, us, if we make it serious that this is not just an isolated event, it will produce a virtuous cycle in which each will learn it will be, they'll learn the lessons and they'll start looking to solve their political problems in other ways.