Gaza is a window on our coming
dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable
masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many
impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the economic
cliff, are beginning to resemble Gaza, where 1.6 million Palestinians
live in the planet’s largest internment camp. These sacrifice zones,
filled with seas of pitifully poor people trapped in squalid slums or
mud-walled villages, are increasingly hemmed in by electronic fences,
monitored by surveillance cameras and drones and surrounded by border
guards or military units that shoot to kill. These nightmarish dystopias
extend from sub-Saharan Africa to Pakistan to China. They are places
where targeted assassinations are carried out, where brutal military
assaults are pressed against peoples left defenseless, without an army,
navy or air force. All attempts at resistance, however ineffective, are
met with the indiscriminate slaughter that characterizes modern
industrial warfare.
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