"Picking a side" in the Middle East plays into the hands of the "enemy"

plus, Meta has bloody scraped four of my books

I have been overwhelmed these past three weeks with the awareness that we are now in the *thing* we have been warned about and have feared.

The *thing* is sometimes termed the metacrisis - all the intersecting crises in the world today, plus the human mindset that caused the crises in the first place, which also informs our inability to solve the crises …