Ayat Jaber History as Fiction

From the simplest of issues to the greatest of them, humans have had many different ways of dealing with problems. You could face them "head on", or give them time. You could block them out and try to ignore them, or in some cases, solve them. However, with mental problems like trauma, you can't simply "solve" them practically. You must learn to live in the mind with those scars. We can only imagine what it's like to go through war, and it's not pretty. Muddy boots is the least of your worries. You're constantly feeling as if it's your last moment, as death constantly bites at your heel. You make friends, you lose friends. Your delusional image of the epic war hero shatters as the truth hits you hard. Billy survived, while many, many others didn't. And Billy had a pretty nice living after the war, while many others didn't. But no matter how great Billy's life was on the outside, his heart was scarred from what he experienced to the...

After reading different blog posts, I wanted to combine some ideas and add in my own of attonism and Jes Grew today. Throughout the centuries, Jes Grew and attonism have taken different forms, as we see in Mumbo Jumbo.  We see Jes Grew in theology, mythology, and musical forms and dance such as jazz, ragtime, and even hip hop and rap. We see attonism in science, math, philosophy, and more traditional musical forms and dance such as classical music and ballet. There are tons more of examples too of how attonism and Jes Grew take shape in our lives and in the past. But the conflict I saw between Jes Grew and attonism, taking out the racial conflict and applying the idea more generally, is that of mind vs. heart. In the sciences and math, attonism is in the focus on our intellect and ability to prove something right for ourselves, strengthening our minds and focusing more on material knowledge and thinking. In the arts, its in the romanticist paintings, or the constant rhythm and...