Is nobody interested in war anymore?
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Seriously, when I was growing up we watched the news (had to) and were so engaged in what was happening. Up until 9/11 I had been so outraged by what has been happening around the globe. Now, aged 50, I really can't get engaged anymore. It's so obviously staged that I feel a fool for every believing in any of it. The amount of money I raised for these people is unbelievable. All these "foreign countries" are ruled by the West and they decide who is now the enemy. I am a fool. I know it. Sorry if I can't get upset anymore. That's just how it is.
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This is true.
#creepingpeace
When I was a lad it was all cowboys and Indians, but even the Lone Ranger had Tonto. :cool:
Where is she now? I hope not the UK!!
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it
I mean, it's so much easier just to implement sanctions against a country than sending the boys in to shoot shit up.
Also, China and Russia are surely just as bad as 'The West'.
So rare. Shouldn't we care more for each other, and all the other species with whom we share the world, in this vast uncaring universe?
I totally agree with all but the last sentence. It isn't the media, it is slimy politicians telling us who the enemy is. The media are the messengers.
I barely even look at BBC news anymore. It's all about Syria and Sunnis and Nigerian bombs. It's too depressing for words. And it's rather dull when you're aware you only know the tip of the iceberg.
I've thought of it as being ambiguous from a young age. My dad comes from Estonia and he's told me a bit about what went on there during WWII. Some people fought for the Germans, some for the Russians, some for neither and some even tried to fight against both. Considering the situation in the country at the time I can see the justification behind any of those.
As for growing tired of war, I really did get fed up of hearing about Beirut and Northern Ireland when I was a kid. I think I'm still showing some slight signs of disinterest because of them.
War in general - not THE War! There's been more than one you know!
And again once you know about all war, when you hear more and more or the same thing over and over you lose interest but at the same time you think yes it is devastating and obviously not the best of situations.
To be fair - there HAS been an
The fact is that there are wars going on ALL the time, hundreds of them all over the world. But nowadays we have started to....reclassify?...them as insurgencies, civil wars, guerilla wars, police actions etc. because international legisltation like the 1949 Geneva Convention recognises the differences between them and outright war between two nations ;-)
But they're still VERY real and VERY deadly to the people involved. If you're a woman in a small tribal village raped by the last group of combatants to wander through, or a boy soldier carrying his AK-47, or you're busy massacring your opponents as you go because they practice a different flavour of the same religion as you, or someone "fighting" a war by strapping a dozen sticks of industrial gelignite to your chest and looking for a bus queue...the actual definition of what sort of war you're fighting doesn't matter that much...:o
They only started the war,
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that all to the poor"
War Pigs - Black Sabbath.
But war can be quite lucrative for some.
This aspect came up some time ago on DS and I crunched the numbers; some 7% of MPS in the House of Commons today have seen military service...some of them in the Gulf War, in Northern Ireland, in BAOR etc...
I sincerely doubt that 7% of the British population of working age has seen military service....
In WWII it was even worse; at one point nearly two-thirds of MPs were in one uniform or another, so many that there were serious concerns in the Privy Council regarding the House of Commons even finding a quorum for voting!