Off to war

[glenn_uk]

Comrades,

In my latest article, the idea was to question the standing notion
that military engagements are an ordinary fact of life, that continual
military action is necessary to ensure national security, and that
saying "support the troops" and waving a flag all the time is not
an expected manner of behaviour for a Good Citizen nearly
everywhere.

There seems to be a mindset that if someone, somewhere loses
the faith and stops flag-waving for five minutes, then entire
American experiment is ruined and the country will collapse. This
sort of faith-based semi-compulsory patriotic display is generally
known only in tiny tin-pot republics, or complete dictatorships.

Anyway, enjoy the article... feedback/discussion always welcome,
and I hope it doesn't come across as military/US bashing.

Thanks,

Glenn.

[Nathan Morrison]

I absolutely agree here Glenn. Once again you've hit the nail right on the head. The propaganda fed to the people of both our countries today is no different than that being fed to the Germans in the buildup to world war 2.

Excellent work Glenn, as always.

-Morrison

[glenn_uk]

admin said:

I absolutely agree here Glenn. Once again you've hit the nail right on the head. The propaganda fed to the people of both our countries today is no different than that being fed to the Germans in the buildup to world war 2.

Excellent work Glenn, as always.

-Morrison

Thanks for the comment ... strange thing is the US has been fed
this /constantly/ for the past 60 years, and they are still believing
it afresh every time!

-Glenn

[PHILIP RACUEL]

I will go and print it out- so I canm read it offline and submit a comment soon Glenn...I always enjoy your articles!

[ccgandrt]

Glenn, I believe that the older generation are dying off and since they never passed down their experience and knowledge well and detailed...the following generation repeated the same stupid acts, fall for the same proganda and commit the same errors. A large country has it easy to govern over the people too...the people are selfish, selfcentered, individualistic and unfriendly...there's no commradery (?) between the 80 year olds of today and the 70 year olds. They never were friendly when they were young/too far to travel, country's too big/they don't do the Internet/don't have the same mentality, too brainwashed and set in their ways.

We really need to spread the wisdom and truths of experience to the younger generation or the cycle is doomed to repeated over and over. Amazing, isn't it?

[glenn_uk]

ccgandrt said:

Glenn, I believe that the older generation are dying off and since they never passed down their experience and knowledge well and detailed...the following generation repeated the same stupid acts, fall for the same proganda and commit the same errors. A large country has it easy to govern over the people too...the people are selfish, selfcentered, individualistic and unfriendly...there's no commradery (?) between the 80 year olds of today and the 70 year olds. They never were friendly when they were young/too far to travel, country's too big/they don't do the Internet/don't have the same mentality, too brainwashed and set in their ways.

We really need to spread the wisdom and truths of experience to the younger generation or the cycle is doomed to repeated over and over. Amazing, isn't it?

I dunno Corey... it's not so much that we don't want to learn the
lessons, but that "we" - officially - don't want to hear them.

These people did want to tell us how terrible it was. The WW-I
soldiers could hardly bring themselves to relate the horrors of the
trenches, and nobody wanted to hear about it back or report it
1914-1918. Even now, we're not really told that wars have had
appauling cost, and actually there was no reason for the
sacrifice. Or for WW-1, a reason nobody can actually state
definitively. We never say, heck - that war didn't do
anyone any good, sorry about the lost lives. We quietly ignore it,
putting it down to heroism and clucking about how grateful we are
for their saving our freedom.

"Popular" society values only the "right now", and only then if one is
hardly into one's twenties and photogenic with it. Past experience
is yesterday's news, and if you got banged up, you're a loser. The
"opinion" of the uninformed is vastly more important than those
with experience to bear - if you've got experience, you're old -
so you don't count!

We don't get to hear the wisdom and experience that doesn't
suit the state, and the state media is never going to allow us
to hear the lessons of past disasters. Heck if we did, we might
not be bowled along into the next one!

Thanks,

Glenn.