viernes, octubre 14
I don't blog like I used to.
Here's where I take a stance on something I really don't care about and explain how the world is all backwards. It was actually a draft I never posted b/c I'm convinced it is a piece of shit. Since I don't have time to write one today and no one reads this over the weekend anyways that's what you get- shit.
This is just something that has been bothering me.
I don't understand why every time people in the military die over in Iraq the news needs to report it. Is dying not one of the hazards of being in the military? They knew their likelihood of dying went up dramatically when they enlisted.
I know someone will read this and conclude that I am unpatriotic or ungrateful. Here's the thing I think if they are going to tell me that an army dude dies for me over seas they should let me know how many crab fishermen died while at sea. You can live w/o freedom but you cant live without food, crab included.
So what about the migrant farmer who dies of dehydration? To me his death is as noble as the military's. We are socialized to believe that dying for your country is a valiant existance, or rather a valiant end to your existance. Much of that was built on the premise that we needed people to "want" to defend their country in the past. In today's world most of us don't need to defend anything we can just go on living our lives full of freedom and crab cakes w/o thinking twice. Why is this? B/c we pay the price for freedom and those crab cakes (taxes and $9.95 for an appetizer sized portion, respectively). Death is part of the price for fishing crabs and fighting wars but fortunately its negotiable and not everyone has to pay the same price.
I'm not trying to devalue what the army is doing but trying to prove that focusing on people dying while fighting in Iraq is just a media fed agenda. The media needs the war to be big news so they can report it. Yellow journalism made up the news. Nowadays they just direct your focus and blind you to everything else.
It is important that they we support those who defend us but why lie and try to make it seem that those soldiers aren't doing anything but the job they were hired for. They have a wage, a contract, and a list responsibility. That is a job. Should I have some type of self-esteem problem b/c I didn't choose to defend my country?
We aren't fighting wars with volunteers that are sacrificing everything they have to defend their homeland. We fight wars with people who felt that going to fight was the best opportunity for them. The amount of people who are enlisting due to a fear that their home will be overrun with invaders is extremly low. The amount of people who are enlisting b/c they come from a minority household and aren't provided many opportunities for success due to their socioeconomic status and self-defeating attitude is a much greater.
I don't know what this country is going to do when the Hispanic community outgrows its low levels of education and income. I guess we'll need some more imigrants to give birth and supply us with soldiers.
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This is just something that has been bothering me.
I don't understand why every time people in the military die over in Iraq the news needs to report it. Is dying not one of the hazards of being in the military? They knew their likelihood of dying went up dramatically when they enlisted.
I know someone will read this and conclude that I am unpatriotic or ungrateful. Here's the thing I think if they are going to tell me that an army dude dies for me over seas they should let me know how many crab fishermen died while at sea. You can live w/o freedom but you cant live without food, crab included.
So what about the migrant farmer who dies of dehydration? To me his death is as noble as the military's. We are socialized to believe that dying for your country is a valiant existance, or rather a valiant end to your existance. Much of that was built on the premise that we needed people to "want" to defend their country in the past. In today's world most of us don't need to defend anything we can just go on living our lives full of freedom and crab cakes w/o thinking twice. Why is this? B/c we pay the price for freedom and those crab cakes (taxes and $9.95 for an appetizer sized portion, respectively). Death is part of the price for fishing crabs and fighting wars but fortunately its negotiable and not everyone has to pay the same price.
I'm not trying to devalue what the army is doing but trying to prove that focusing on people dying while fighting in Iraq is just a media fed agenda. The media needs the war to be big news so they can report it. Yellow journalism made up the news. Nowadays they just direct your focus and blind you to everything else.
It is important that they we support those who defend us but why lie and try to make it seem that those soldiers aren't doing anything but the job they were hired for. They have a wage, a contract, and a list responsibility. That is a job. Should I have some type of self-esteem problem b/c I didn't choose to defend my country?
We aren't fighting wars with volunteers that are sacrificing everything they have to defend their homeland. We fight wars with people who felt that going to fight was the best opportunity for them. The amount of people who are enlisting due to a fear that their home will be overrun with invaders is extremly low. The amount of people who are enlisting b/c they come from a minority household and aren't provided many opportunities for success due to their socioeconomic status and self-defeating attitude is a much greater.
I don't know what this country is going to do when the Hispanic community outgrows its low levels of education and income. I guess we'll need some more imigrants to give birth and supply us with soldiers.
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