A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

***********************************

https://fredoneverything.org/memorial-day-i-am-going-to-kill-the-next-person-who-says-thank-you-for-your-service/#more-1693

LVT P5 AMTRAC. What we drove in my AMTRAC Battalion in Danang. Designed as a Landing vehicle, it had the gasoline tank in the bottoms so that, when the Marines decided to used them on land around minefields, they were death traps. We were rushed into the war half-trained. Happy Memorial Day

This might be a good time to consider militaries, war, and the sorry pogues in Washington who incite them.

Memorial Day? Why do governments celebrate those they have just sacrificed in the last war? Answer: To stir up group solidarity–we call it “patriotism”–so they can be more readily sacrificed int the next war. There is much of this, emanating presumably from New York’s ad agencies. Catchy slogans: “The Few, the Proud.” Air Force flyovers at the Super Bowl creaky veterans of WWII are hobble forth to thunderous applause, stage props in a calculated jingoism. This ensures that young men, impelled by boredom and the yearnings of unsatisfied virility, will rush to the flag in the inevitable next war.

Why? Not for any good reason. Wars are not about anything. They are just wars. They are what we do, year after year, century after century. Why? In the nature of things, the smart, avaricious, amoral, ambitious, and manipulative rise. Government is a sieve for finding those least suited to govern. They will kill numbers without a twinge of conscience, fifty-five million in WWII, a million or two in Southeast Asia, so far a couple of hundred thousand in the Ukraine. Countries and soldiers submit to this because they are herd animals. War, instinctive, is in the blood. We make war as genetically as army ants.

@@@@@@@@@@@

Go to home page to read more.