May 08 2009
Waging war against brutality
Hello, folks. Sorry I haven’t been around as much, but I got caught up with a shitload of school work and now that finals are over I’m free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I’m free at last!
I wanted to shift tones and talk about something real serious: war. It’s a brutal, uncecessary undeavor, and to be honest, I’m really against in most cases. And I don’t just mean,”Well the Iraw war is soooo bad cuz it[’s just more oil” type. I mean just really opposed to the overall concept of it.
In my heart of hearts I consider myself a pacifist. Violence breeds a cycle of ugliness which is rarely broken. To respond to agression with counter-attitude is to invite hostility and ultimately one another’s destruction.
It’s been said before, in greater tomes and in far better words, that war is essentially a political tool. It’s heartbreaking to think so many men and women have died and suffered horrible injutstices and injuries, all to facilitate a politican’s rise to power or one country’s dominance over another.
War leads to a dehuminzation of the enemy. The army and other branches of the armed forces actually institute a process called “resociaization”. This is where they basivally try to brainwash you into their robotic, conormiost way of thinking. They give you all this run-around rhetoric about needing precise movements on the battefield, but it’s really just hoopla disguising the fact that they want to turn you into a cold-blooded sociopath with little to no feelings or reagrd for other’s lives, through means of bullying, humiliation, and intimidation.
I’m not one of those protestors who boos the soldiers when they come back. that is misguided anger and ultimately unforgiven. regardless of my opinions, those people are American heores and were simpkl doing their job. I’m sure the scars of war have left unforgiveable and lifelong mental trauma on them. In fact, some of the very strongest anti-war sentiments have come from those who served in it, such as Kurt Vonnenut’s Slaughterhouse Five or Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
Nay, I see them as merely innocent victims in the context of a larger infastructure. I think the whole military-industrial complex needs to be rethought, and even abolished. We are too agressive in foreign policy and one cannot possibly conceive of the ultimate reality and horror of war, unless you happen to have the misfortune to be in one.
The Army mostly recruits college dropouts, those in desperate poverty, and other young and directionless males with no hope for their future and no outlet for their pent-up frustration. Basically, you have a nation of white trash defedningt our country overseas. Scary, isn’t it?
Sorry this entry might seem so poorly written and crappy, I’m just tired after finals week. When I get sleep and I rest up for the summer and am more motivated, I’ll have more steady output in the near future. For now, let me leave you with this to ponder:
