{"id":172,"date":"2022-04-13T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/?p=172"},"modified":"2022-04-13T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T09:22:04","slug":"5-years-in-a-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/2022\/04\/13\/5-years-in-a-message\/","title":{"rendered":"5 years in a message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not that I am a defeatist when I wrote that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/2022\/02\/26\/living-accumulating-pain\/\">life is about accumulating pain<\/a>. There is no denying in that. What we do instead, is to lessen such a pain. We invented medicine, technology, and even cured the meats and add that tomato cheese flavor to that pizza so we can be less in pain. That&#8217;s something special about us humans.<\/p>\n<p>And yet here we are. Here we are afraid to say: Israel, could you help lessen the pain felt by the Palestinians? &#8230;if you self-consider an ally to Israel. Here we are, afraid to say: Russia, would you stop making them in pain? &#8230;if Russia and you are best friend. And no, I am (trying to be) neutral. I don&#8217;t think I can solve, or help solve, any problem without being neutral. I would love to have Israeli friends (I used to work with a Jewish colleague of mine from NYC). I&#8217;d love to have Russian friends (one of my neighbors is from Russia). I&#8217;d love to have you, Americans, Africans, other Asians as a friend. Europeans too. Anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, when we consider ourselves an ally or a close friend to someone; we will defend that someone to a point we won&#8217;t do if they are not our close, best friend. In that case, would it be naive if I imagine a world where everyone is everyone else&#8217;s best friend? I guess so? At least Mr. Lennon assured\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YkgkThdzX-8\">I am not the only one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The world doesn&#8217;t work that way! (Does it?) Then perhaps, I should have renamed the title of this blog post to <em>5,000 years in a message<\/em>. Maybe, our children 5,000 years from now could prove me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But no!\u00a0<strong>no!<\/strong> I urgently in need to title this post specifically\u00a0<em>5 years in a message<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Because, I want to imagine what 5 years from now will be like, where the war is over.<\/p>\n<p>Where the war is over, but not because we turn this ancestral home of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em>, wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not that I am a defeatist when I wrote that life is about accumulating pain. There is no denying in that. What we do instead, is to lessen such a pain. We invented medicine, technology, and even cured the meats and add that tomato cheese flavor to that pizza so we can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/adamnoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}