Stuck Between Fight, Flight, and Freeze

I just published a piece I’ve been struggling to write for months:
Unlearning Helplessness: Violence and the Collapse of Political Imagination

It comes from a place of deep frustration—with the violence, with the paralysis, with how easy it’s become to accept the unacceptable. We’re stuck in survival mode. Fight, flight, freeze. Again and again.

This isn’t just about Israel and Gaza, though that’s where I’m writing from. It’s about the larger collapse of political imagination—our shrinking ability to see beyond the current horror, to believe something else is even possible.

I don’t have the answers. But I am looking for them, and I needed to write this down.
If you’ve also been feeling this stuck, this helpless—maybe it’s time we start unlearning it, together.

Thanks for reading.
—Mushon