‘The dream of Paris is over’: US track and field star Emma Coburn to miss Olympics after breaking ankle | CNN

US steeplechase athlete Emma Coburn said that her “dream” of competing at this year’s Paris Olympics is over after she broke her ankle while competing in Shanghai last month

           

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Palestine is giving young people meaning the capitalist, corporate world order viciously denied them.

At the most precise moment in history when it seemed a completely mechanical, vertical, and isolated form of existence was about to burry humanity for good, this genocide sparked a long-forgotten truth: that we (the people) are creatures of community; that we only find true joy and meaning in connecting with other people.

That we cannot be happy when others around us suffer.

Palestine is an actual and concrete struggle but it is also, and crucially so, an instrument of philosophical liberation of universal importance. And these kids are holding on to it as a buoy, so as not to drown in an ocean of cold and meaningless rituals that have no resonance with the human soul: be born, learn, learn a craft, accumulate material things, obey the system, have a family die.

They don't want it. They looked into their screens, and while we thought they were vanishing and ceasing to be in them, it is there they found life, and what it really means.

They want Palestinians to stop being mass murdered, displaced, and dehumanized, but they want the same thing for themselves. They want to feel human, and they reject the system that tries so desperately to humiliate, denigrate, and dismantle them.

As prophecized, the revolution is not televised, as establishment media is an essential part of the oppressing mechanism. But rather than let it fool you, see this violent denial for what it is: proof of the magnitude and potential of this movement.

The Palestinian Revolution may yet prove to be more consequential than the French one.