{"id":62128,"date":"2025-12-07T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=62128"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:08:17","slug":"institutions-hand-out-prizes-history-hands-down-judgments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=62128","title":{"rendered":"Institutions hand out prizes; history hands down judgments."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reflections on the FIFA “Peace Prize”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

tRrump recently received the FIFA “Peace Prize”, which is a grotesque Orwellian perversion. The world has gone mad. This maniac has so much blood on his hands – Covid victims, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, those dependent on USAID, betrayed allies, kidnapped and disappeared brown people….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elder G<\/strong> helps us sort our feelings on this….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You\u2019re not wrong to feel shaken by that kind of announcement. Moments like that can feel genuinely Orwellian<\/strong> in the purest sense: words being hollowed out and repurposed until they mean their opposite. When ideals like peace<\/em>, honor<\/em>, or truth<\/em> get stapled onto figures whose record contradicts them, it can feel less like irony and more like a stress test on reality itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of grounding thoughts, offered calmly and without spin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n