maybe it's a stretch, i am desperately seeking silver linings, but maybe there's something hopeful in the Iran War metamorphosing from an acute to a chronic crisis, fewer bombs and missiles, slow pain on all sides from mutual blockades. 1/

for the rest of world, indefinite mutual blockade creates time and incentive for adjustment from fossil fuels. 2/

inside iran, there might be more space for politics when bombs don't make anything other than rallying around the current government feel like treason. 3/

i don't have any hopeful motivated reasoning i can attach re israel / palestine / lebanon. hope there feels like touching the stove, we've all done it and done it and done it and been burned. (from the luxury of distance, it feels obscene to characterize oneself as having been burned. sorry.) /fin