watched Vice documentaries about the Uyghur genocide and Taliban with journalist Isobel Yeung today (opens in new tab)

It reminded me of what Kōshō Uchiyama wrote: \"Being born in any age or in any place is a possibility, an accident, just as my being here right now is an accident\.\" I happened to be born in a country that's known for their niceness\. I happened to be born in a country that's considered one of the \"good ones\" of the West\. Thanks to my mother's hard work, I am in a country that for the most part \(sometimes with a squint\) provides a positive contrast to governments in those documentaries,...