The Trip to LA to See Genocide

When we went up to Los Angeles to attend a conversation with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast, I was shocked again with how the Holocaust Museum showed me more of what I didn't see yet, but the main event seemed very reassuring. I am pretty confident that we can and will stop this genocide considering how many options and how much power we have. But, I know that settling this conflict is only temporary in the sense that we will have more genocides in the future.

Don and John support the urge to make this happen "never again," but it's obvious that their proposed techniques are not permanent. They say that we should look at past successful techniques and apply them now, even those methods didn't stop genocide once and for all.

It's the same kind of issue when we get headaches. Our tendency is to take medication to make it go away, and that's fine. But, it's definitely not the last headache we have. It will come up again in the future, if it's just a day or a month or even a year. When it happens again, we will take the medication again! The process will repeat forever. This is exactly what we are doing with genocides. We are constantly taking the pill, and it will make it go away temporarily.

Instead of waiting to solve an effect like a small headache or a violent genocide with the same steps, we have to look at the cause. If we don't, we will inevitably repeat an effect with the same cause. For example, stress causes headaches. If we realized we were stressed and change how our mind functions, then we will never have a headache again as long as we keep our mind functioning without stress. For genocide, the problem comes from hate or a desire to be separate. If we watched ourselves getting angry, afraid, or any other negative emotion, we could stop genocide once and for all.

From here, I propose that we should continue our past techniques as long as it doesn't disturb our minds with negative thought, feelings, and emotions. If we keep our thinking this way, we can slowly help influence the cleansing of all minds. Then, we are no longer pulled down by other people's negative emotions. At that point, it would get a lot better, since everyone wants peace in the world and peace in mind. In my opinion, this is the permanent solution to genocide.