There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn’t one of them. The US, like the UK, has been forced to move away from a conscription army and now has a mercenary army. It’s the reason you don’t get war poets any more.
Frankie Boyle
Part of the American mindset comes from the fact that the US was formed through the racist murder of indigenous people. The reason that whole country is such a horror story is that the entire thing is built on an Old Indian Graveyard. I worry that perhaps white America wants to believe that its racial fault lines only run as deep as the Confederate flag. Hence the current uproar at names of southern civil-war generals being on street signs while the faces of slave owners are still on the currency.
But didn't the Indians also butcher each other, enslave each other, and take each others lands as well?
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This is idiotic. If anything public reverence of the military was as great or greater in the days of conscription compared to now. Also I think the lack of "war poets" can be better attributed to the fact that poetry as a whole is a less common form of expression for ordinary people today than it was in WW1.
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“Where the longleaf pines are whispering
to him who loved them so.
Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
-A Grave Epitaph in Santa Rosa County, Florida; I wish I could remember the man's name.
Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
You don't think an army where the soldiers choose to be soldiers, rather than people who were something else, might lead to less regret over the sacrifice, loss and evil that is war.
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