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StructuredKing -> RE: Why Is Every War Started With a Lie? (5/29/2007 9:13:17 PM)
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I don't mean to be such a troll here, but I started reading this a bit late into the argument.
But, from my point of view, soldiers go because they're told to. If they don't do as they're told, their life is ruined. They're ostracized, their family is evicted, and the soldier is sent to jail for a ridiculous amount of time. It's easier just to roll the dice, and hope your leg doesn't get blown off. That's just getting there. Once there, we fight because we're watching our buddy's back, making sure that he gets back to that ultrasound picture that his wife sent three months ago, in time to see his child come screaming into this world.
Civilians don't fight, but they put up with it, because they believe what they're told. It's reinforced at several levels. In public schools (We ripped the system straight from the Prussians, possibly the most militaristic society known to man.) no one is taught critical thinking, but simply to follow the crowd from bell to bell. Conformity to authority, and conformity to the herd is expected. On the television, and in the newspaper, we're desensitized from any visceral emotional reaction to the violence, by simply flooding the screen, day in, and day out. The images, and sound bytes are put on the screen faster than you can stop and think about it. I'll leave the religious aspect out of it for now, but lets just say, certain monotheists have a tendency to back anything that is remotely pro-Israel.
The voices with any say in Washington, the corporations, don't protest, because it's a windfall economy for them. Who needs morals when you can have a profit margin?
Welcome to the modern warfare-welfare state. In everything that happens- ask yourself "For whose good? Who does this profit?"
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