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My dad discouraged me from joining the military, or taking ROTC, or anything like that, based on the idea that they end up sending you places like Vietnam where you shoot a bunch of gooks who weren't harming anyone but their fellow gooks, as opposed to having you defend your country.
Well, is the American empire really a bad thing? Was it bad that we went into so many communist countries and overthrew their governments (elected or otherwise) and put dictators in place who were more amenable to American business interests? One could argue that those countries don't know how to rule themselves.
Thoreau said that we should refuse to serve our government, because it enslaves blacks and invades Mexico. But who really cares about blacks and Latinos; we made them equal to us, and you see how that's gone. Now whites are the ones being oppressed.
At least before slavery was abolished, we didn't have a bunch of programs like the War on Drugs that were intended to continue subjugating the black man but also had a lot of collateral damage, in terms of harming whites too. The War on Drugs also targeted hippies; I suppose the government's main problem with hippies was that they practiced free love and opposed the Vietnam War. But I mean, women being liberated to become whores was already a thing before hippies came along; hippies didn't invent that. The country was already headed in that direction. What I guess the conservatives didn't like was that a lot of those girls were having sex with hippies, but they would've been going to college and having sex with some other kind of badboy, maybe like some James Dean type of leather jacket wearing rebel without a cause, had hippies not come along.
Anyway, joining the military means that all the hot chicks go gaga over you. So, it's always going to have that advantage. I did know one guy who went to Iraq and got shot, but now he's a war hero, buried in Arlington cemetery and all that. So there's also the potential to obtain that kind of immortality, although in reality the state is just using you as an example by which they can attract more people to want to join the military by saying, "Even if you get shot, it's not all that bad because you won't just get forgotten; people will honor your family and whatnot for supporting your choice to become a soldier."
Well, is the American empire really a bad thing? Was it bad that we went into so many communist countries and overthrew their governments (elected or otherwise) and put dictators in place who were more amenable to American business interests? One could argue that those countries don't know how to rule themselves.
Thoreau said that we should refuse to serve our government, because it enslaves blacks and invades Mexico. But who really cares about blacks and Latinos; we made them equal to us, and you see how that's gone. Now whites are the ones being oppressed.
At least before slavery was abolished, we didn't have a bunch of programs like the War on Drugs that were intended to continue subjugating the black man but also had a lot of collateral damage, in terms of harming whites too. The War on Drugs also targeted hippies; I suppose the government's main problem with hippies was that they practiced free love and opposed the Vietnam War. But I mean, women being liberated to become whores was already a thing before hippies came along; hippies didn't invent that. The country was already headed in that direction. What I guess the conservatives didn't like was that a lot of those girls were having sex with hippies, but they would've been going to college and having sex with some other kind of badboy, maybe like some James Dean type of leather jacket wearing rebel without a cause, had hippies not come along.
Anyway, joining the military means that all the hot chicks go gaga over you. So, it's always going to have that advantage. I did know one guy who went to Iraq and got shot, but now he's a war hero, buried in Arlington cemetery and all that. So there's also the potential to obtain that kind of immortality, although in reality the state is just using you as an example by which they can attract more people to want to join the military by saying, "Even if you get shot, it's not all that bad because you won't just get forgotten; people will honor your family and whatnot for supporting your choice to become a soldier."
