hello internet. i live in america, the land of the free and the home of the selfish. today is memorial day. memorial day is the day when we remember the soldiers who died while in military service. those who died in the countless of wars the united states took part of. now, in the last 50 years, america has taken part of some of the worst wars, including the one we're in, "the war on terror" now, i don't like war. i don't like two governments fighting one another (for selfish reasons) and the ones paying for it are the innocent civilians of a country (vietnam, iraq, korea, afghanistan, even japan in ww2) now, today we are supposed to remember those who died, those who gave their lives to a government that could make them do whatever that government sees fit, even though those reasons might be... selfish. henry david thoreau compared soldiers to horses and dogs, who follow instruction blindly. these soldiers followed instructions blindly, they gave their bodies to a government, and they killed innocent civilians who had no fault for what their government did. i would even go as far to say that all these wars american took part of have been in the interest of the wealthy, not in the interest of the people. this is a day to remember those "brave" men and women. am i being unpatriotic? i guess i am.
i never really liked being patriotic.
The only war my country (England at that time) ever became involved in during my lifetime was World War Two, and I feel that was a just war. Hitler would have gobbled up all Europe and all Jews would have been killed if we hadn't gone to war. And America came in and saved our bacon! That was just too. So I think there are exceptions, although I agree selfishness is at the back of most conflicts.
ReplyDeleteWar is such a primitive thing. I totally understand that it was needed in the past, and even then someone was profiting off it. Even the actions in World War 2 were inhumane. I mean we decided to kill off a whole city full of innocent civilians because of the decisions of the government? Is that fair?
ReplyDeleteHmm....How are you reacting for the 4th of July? I'm staying at home. I'm not patriotic either.
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