Hello everyone welcome back to Rev Left Radio. Okay so today I was kind of you know

confused as to where I should take this episode. Obviously I'm talking the day after Aaron Bushnell self-immolated

outside the Israeli embassy in the United States, a confirmed airman in the U.S. Army Air Force, and it's obviously on

everybody's mind, it's on everybody's Twitter feed. There's so much to say.

But instead of just me addressing that in this moment, I'm going to have Allison on tomorrow

to have that discussion with me, because I think it is one of those things that's worth having multiple perspectives and there's some issues that I want to work through in a way that is more conducive to more than just one person talking etc.

So I'm very much going to get into that. to more than just one person talking etc.

So I'm very much going to get into that.

We're going to have a deep-ass episode just on that.

Its implications, what it means, how we should orient ourselves to it, you know, the feelings

we have around it. It's a, I mean it's a kind, it's a

traumatizing event in a long line of sort of traumatizing events and I don't

like when that word trauma is overused, but I don't think it is.

Watching a human being set themselves on fire and scream free Palestine as the flames burn every nerve ending in their body,

while a fucking dumb pig pulls out a gun like a little fucking

scared child and points it at a fucking burning corpse.

That's a traumatic experience. And we are

living in a period of upheaval and chaos and suffering, which is not new to humanity. and I've never, you know, think about, and we'll talk about this today, but that self-immolation

of the Buddhist monk from Vietnam, where he sits in the lotus position, med sets himself on fire we see that picture the

picture is haunting it's beautiful it's tragic it's wild right but that's a that's a

snapshot what what modern communicative technology

allows us to do is to see from the first-person perspective somebody

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