A frightening aspect of toxic masculinity
(Idea and information from Lynzy Billing, New Lines Magazine, September 25th 2023)
Though dropped in April of 2017 killing and unknown number of humans, animals plants and the soil itself the ordnance continues to poison humans, animals, plants and the soil in 2024. It is completely unknown for how many generations the poisoning will continue.
Consider the incongruous name of the ordnance as prescribed by the only type of human who could perpetrate such a violation, uninitiated toxic males. The anointed name was Mother Of All Bombs (MOAB). MOAB is a shock wave penetration type ordnance that wipes out life in a one mile radius. The mushroom cloud was seen 20 miles away.
Civilians in Afghanistan who returned to their land after MOAB was dropped found that their lives would never be the same. Their skin was chemically burned by the toxic waste left behind after the explosion. The soil itself was now unable to produce crops or at the most 1/2 of the crops produced before the bomb was dropped. The land was barren as the animals and plants had all been killed. Now scientists wonder what long term impacts will manifest such as cancer, birth defects and/or other unknown diseases or consequences?
By 2022 global military spending had reached 2.24 trillion dollars (USD), Statista.com A meaningless number. Let’s try and describe a trillion for you.
It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills, Imaginationstationtoledo.org.
A trillion dollars would pay the annual salary of 18 million teachers. In 2021 there were 3.2 million teachers in the USA.
A million seconds is about 12 days.
A billion seconds is half a lifetime (a bit under 32 years).
A trillion seconds is more than all of recorded history (a bit under 32,000 years) - Scott Brickner
Think of what could be accomplished on earth if 2.24 trillion dollars was used every year to create rather than to destroy? But you must understand, a significant number of uninitiated males do not think that way. In fact, as you read this, very very ‘nice’ men are saying, “War is part of being human. Countries MUST have militaries to protect their citizens and their country. It is naive to purport that too much money is being spent on military budgets.” THAT statement alone supports what I am trying to say to you. Uninitiated males cannot even contemplate a world without violence. They cannot envision a world without violence and so violence builds on itself … a living beast, that eventually will gulp all humans into its cavernous insatiable stomach. Climate Crisis, Sixth Extinction, war, violence to all things feminine including Mother Nature.
And then, the uninitiated man spits in the face of The Mother and mocks her by naming a needlessly horrific weapon, The Mother Of All Bombs. This is the blindness, the horror and the reality of the uninitiated male who has lived their life in the philosophy of the Canon of Peter and the White Madonna, Dead Law. It does NOT have to be like this. There is another way.
We must wake up to Life Lore and Dead Law.
Got it. I’m piecing together a few things about old ways, ceremonies, initiation, non violence. It reminds me of the commitment taken to be a pipe carrier. So much toxicity, so much to try and teach, but brining it down to one thing and grounding it in beauty helps. I’m thinking of the tree now. Do we have to know the one road to know the other one?