Scum & Villainy … ( 08 / 24 / 2014 )
Scum & Villainy … ( 08 / 24 / 2014 )
Well , it looks like our " leaders " are trying to start another futile & counterproductive war in the Middle East . God bless our politicians ; for they know not what they do -- literally .
" If we really saw war , if we really saw what war does to young minds and bodies , it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war . If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents , we would not be able to repeat the hollow and misleading clichés we use to justify war . And this is why our wars are so carefully sanitized . This is why we are shown war ' s perverse and dark thrills but are spared from seeing war ' s true & utter consequences ... The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining -- while the wounded , the crippled , and the dead are , in this great & shameless charade , swiftly carted offstage . For they are war ' s refuse ... We do not see them . We do not hear them . They are doomed , like wandering spirits , to float around the hazy edges of our consciousness -- ignored , and sometimes even reviled . For the truth-filled message they tell us is simply too painful for us to hear : that war is a sham ; that war is a fallacy ; that war is organized murder ; that war only creates more war . So we sit back and celebrate ourselves & our nation instead -- by imbibing the myths of glory , and honor , and patriotism , and heroism ... words that in combat become empty and meaningless ... words that encourage callousness & violence & cruelty ... words that are therefore the essence of evil ."
~ inspired by Chris Hedges
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