Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal

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Why can we never simply have peace?

I don’t find it especially interesting to talk about anti-Semitism every single day. And I am reading that Americans are sick of it too. So let’s take a break from that topic. Let’s talk about managed conflict, okay? And why we can never seem to have peace. So basically managed conflict is where the intelligence agencies want to oversee the world.

And the way that they do that is to pick fights everywhere. And that way they can be seen as the heroes in all the fights. If we had peace, we wouldn’t need them. We could simply manage our own affairs. And that is why peacemakers never seem to make it. That is why the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t make it. It’s why John Lennon didn’t make it. It’s why all the people we revere couldn’t.