Thanks for your article in Counterpunch, Greg. Children are allowed to watch the tsunami victims but cannot see the victims of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, etc. Children are allowed to play video games enabling a military mentality and learning how to kill before they know how to love, develop compassion, and probably never have a social conscience.
They can go to churches and learn how to lie. They can watch all the inconsistencies and contradictions of american society. They can confuse the flag with an old mattress ticking…[if we have a flag, it should at least be somewhat artistic]
They can learn what a dysfunctional family is by observing their daily experiences with their family, if they have a family. They can learn about the legal system when their parents get a divorce and confuse the children more than they were previously.
They will see through all the crap…then become brainwashed, after which many will believe more lies, while others avoid mainstream everything, except eating. And that will be difficult also. Then these dropouts will learn about consciousness and how they have been going thru life in a sleeplike state.
Social conditioning will become a fun topic to dabble with occasionally. And the story goes on…some die young others die and forget to fall over, while others still keep breathing……
Keep writing Greg,
Joe Ciarrocca
Just to wish a equally hard punching 2005 as 2004. Your views are a reminder that not all humans are carniverous reptiles: smell, see, attack, eat, smack jaws!
LK
Thanks, Greg, for telling me all about free downloadable war games! Do you mind if I give them a pass?
You know, it strikes me that conscription (or whatever it’s more nicely called) is simple slavery. So, maybe the guys (and gals) do get a salary, of sorts. So, maybe they do get – if they’re lucky – bandages after getting all shot to heck. Fact is, however, that they don’t seem to have much choice, once Uncle Sam calls. Penalty for disobedience? Well, let’s not go into that, ’cause this is a civilized email. From what I’ve read, I’m not sure the difference (except, perhaps, workplace) between conscription and slavery. Whenever the government abrogates uno itself the right to do as it wishes with one’s life and one’s body, surely there is a name for that. Slavery. (By the way, just how WERE those pyramids built?)
Regards,
Evelyn vd Riet
P.S. By the way: w/ or w/o conscription, the war in Iraq STILL stinks.
MoPress 