Pacifism Vs Technology

As technology desensitises humans,
and reduces actual human agency
by reinventing it through machinery,
one of the harder philosophical positions
to hold fast to is that of 'being a pacifist',
because of how personal a position it is.

Being a pacifist means knowing
that we can't help but make enemies,
but further knowing that by every means
we know, we must limit our enmities.

With technology comes detachment.
In peacetime, tech appears to connect
unknown others with other unknown others
in ever greater numbers and at greater distance.

What those who think they connect ignore
is that the distance through which
they presume to connect is also
how enduring enmity arises.

I feel as removed from the zero sum battle
presently going on in Gaza as I do the wars
that have Israel has fought over fifty years. 
Too many civilians die on both sides,
with many more dying on the Gaza strip
than Israel would allow on it's own territory.

The rubble of total war leave me cold.

I want images of ordinary people living ordinary lives,
which means them reducing their personal enmities,
whilst resisting the world-dividing power of Propaganda.