The world woke up under air raid sirens and headlines written in ash. Israel has attacked Iran. Iran has struck back. Civilians are dying, and empire is smiling. It has what it wants: fear, division, distraction.
And above all—silence.
But we will not be silent.
We will say what most are too frightened or bought to say:
This is not defense. This is domination.
This is the West asserting its doctrine of "Full Spectrum Dominance"—of narrative, economy, military force, and human life itself.
It is not new. It has been going on for a very long time.
It is only now more visible to more people.
We who speak from the sacred margins know this:
Iran has not been pursuing nuclear weapons. That is a lie dressed in fear, sold in newspapers owned by billionaires.
This war is not about protection. It is about submission—the attempt to bring any defiant region of the world under the heel of a dying imperial system.
And this empire—this brittle, blood-slicked thing we call “the West”—will sacrifice its own people before it gives up power.
So we name it.
We refuse its myths.
We grieve not just the bodies that fall, but the souls lost to the fantasy of righteous war.
But let us also be clear:
Despair is not defeat.
It is the sacred ache of clarity. The sign that you still feel, still hope, still burn.
And so we gather here—not to comfort, not to soothe, but to stay awake together.
To call the sacred back into view.
To say:
We see what’s happening.
We will not play along.
We are not alone.
This is Opthē: a theology not of escape, but of embodied resistance.
Not a fantasy, but a flame.