"This was a strong sense, at the moment of being grabbed by those powerful jaws, that there was something profoundly and incredibly wrong in what was happening, some sort of mistaken identity. My disbelief was not just existential but ethical-this wasn't happening, couldn't be happening. The world was not like that!"
"After much later reflection, I came to see that there was another way to look at it. There was illusion alright, but it was the other way around. It was the world of 'normal experience' that was the illusion, and the newly disclosed brute world in which I was prey was, in fact, the unsuspected reality."
For two years, protesters in Melbourne gathered weekly to oppose Israel's war on Gaza, with attendance reaching 25,000. These protests expressed collective anger and grief. However, some questioned their effectiveness, given Australia's perceived limited influence. The article references Val Plumwood's encounter with a crocodile, illustrating a profound realization about reality and illusion. Plumwood's reflection suggests that what is considered 'normal' may be an illusion, while the harsh truths of existence reveal a more complex reality.
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