https://void.cat/d/VBUk4C51j2SqJo6Lp9gAEy.webp
Shen: Buried in the news, you would be forgiven for being unaware that Venezuela is posturing to annex a large portion of its resource-rich neighbor, Guyana.
Will this happen, or is this just reckless talk? There is a history of this empty posturing from Maduro. I feel a sense of acceleration, but am uncertain if it is real. What could be next?
Why would Venezuela, weak and plagued by economic problems, incur additional risk through this action?
In my sport, sometimes you will swing harder when you are losing, trying to make something happen. But you tend to strike out more often.
Baseball is not the game we are playing. We think we have learned from the World Wars and the Cold War. Individuals can learn. But it is more difficult for us, collectively.
We are not adapted to our current environment. Most of our instincts came from millennia as hunter-gatherers on the steppe. These have been enhanced with some from those conquering people who rode out behind chariots, spreading new ways. Others from a rigidly enforced caste system on the Indian subcontinent. Or from hellish, bureaucratized oppression periodically interrupted by apocalyptic war in China. Or from elite overproduction during the European Middle Ages.
The horrors of the World Wars, coupled with the sober understanding of the atom are too new, and they are dying with the elders in our nations. They can attempt to pass on their wisdom, but words do not carry the weight of something felt.
If we swing too hard, it is no longer just the individual that can strike out.
#venezuela #guyana #conflict
image generated with hotpot.ai