There is one phrase that summarize how sick and twisted this world is… well at least, it is to me…
"When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
Leonard Matlovich – US army
(1943"1988)
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The psychology of patriotism, the lure of adventure, the aura of moral crusade created by political leaders, worked effectively to dim class resentments against the rich and powerful, and turn much of the anger against “the enemy.” As Edmund Wilson put it in Patriotic Gore (written after World War II): We have seen, in our most recent wars, how a divided and arguing public opinion may be converted overnight into a national near-unanimity, an obedient flood of energy which will carry the young to destruction and overpower any effort to stem it. The unanimity of men at war is like that of a school of fish, which will swerve, simultaneously and apparently without leadership, when the shadow of an enemy appears, or like a sky-darkening flight of grass-hoppers, which, also all compelled by one impulse, will descend to consume the crops.
From Howard Zinn's, A People's History of the United States
this quote left me stunned. thank you for posting.
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