r/AaronBushnell • u/Puzzleheaded-Aide-85 • Mar 08 '24

Chris Hedges: Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence

https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/aaron-bushnells-divine-violence/
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u/jory_prize Mar 29 '24

Hedges is certaiy brilliant, but I find his pessimism bewildering.

This article is just an artistically worded endorsement of suicide; the best option is to die gloriously! Though I doubt Hedges will follow his own advice on the matter.

Aaron's death is a double tragedy, first that the world brutalized his mind so deeply that he was driven to do the most radical thing he could think of. Secondly that the only solution he could find where from the pessimism and mystification of the likes of Chris Hedges.

We don't need the Aaron Bushnells of the world to die, we need them to fight until the powers that demand that Gaza be ethinicly cleansed are defeated!

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u/chessboxer4 Apr 03 '24

"We don't need the Aaron Bushnells of the world to die, we need them to fight until the powers that demand that Gaza be ethinicly cleansed are defeated!"

I hear what you're saying and I appreciate it. However I think he was fighting and in fighting, there is loss and death.

I don't think you should follow his example in terms of suicide but we should follow his example in terms of fighting and doing everything we can.