By Andrew Klein
Humanity spends so many costly resources on the games of war, the pleasures of the hunt knowing that the end means killing another human being. Making such obscenities possible, the small-minded, sociopathic leaders delight in fabricating stories that make others less human.
The movie industry complies and creates offensive fiction, much like the movie about the alleged activities of an ‘American Sniper’. The audiences love it, they acclaim not the acting or the tragedy of death, I have heard interviews where they praise the wonderful effects of seeing men killed at a distance.
The taking of life becomes melted into the mind as entertainment and the act of taking another life becomes just another role they play on the stage of life being mindless as to the ugly realities of war.
Who encourages the production of such movies, the never-ending stereo typing of racial groups portrayed as vile sub-humans worthy of the most terrible death possible. Hollywood presented us with movies that made war entertainment. Even criminals could find redemption by dying for or killing for the State (The Dirty Dozen) and now we find that this model is copied by Saudi Arabia that sends convicts to fight.
What does this say about those signing the orders; making decrees that will end in the killing of another. It tells me that these leaders have total contempt for those sent to kill and even less for those that are to be killed. Movies imitate life or has propaganda become so sophisticated that wars are planned years in advance and audiences prepared over a period of years to see the future dead as being acceptably dead.
The “towel heads”, the “sand rats”; give them any name that makes them less human. This has been a pattern since we started to find that men no longer fought as warriors but had to be coerced to fight, convinced to leave their families and homes to indulge in a little killing some where else.
Prize money was offered, those seeking work employed for a specified period. This dates back even to the Hundred Year War between England and France; the English renting men having a supply of archers and promising pay and loot if battles went well. Of course, in those days there was the pretence of nobility on the English side and a firm belief in chivalry on the French side. This did not last after one English King ordered the execution of prisoners, well-heeled nobles that could expect to ransomed.
So what motivates men to kill? Is it really essential that today we wish it at all? We claim to be so surgical in strikes and the ability to target, are all the innocent dead just design flaws in military design or is there real malice intended, the purpose of taking the war to the people according to the lights of U.S.Grant, the man that won the American Civil War.
It is strange in hindsight that this is seen as a victory at all because bitterness and hatred still remain, entrenched racism still rears its ugly head and preachers pray for war. I don’t know sometimes if people have become so accustomed to seeing it just as another war in an apparently never ending sequence of wars.
Is it a form of entertainment, much like Ancient Rome, but instead of using what were termed as slaves we use those that have no other economic option other than signing their lives away… and when you add the financial cost to the human cost how easily would it be to create fields that men could harvest had we not removed the need for men in the process of food gathering.
Have these men become expendable, a form of entertainment to distract us from a much larger problem. If that is the case, the problem being hidden by mis-direction and lies must be immense and almost impossible to manage.
I will have to sleep on this because none of it makes sense from any rational perspective.
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