Killing for college

"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images." - Plato

Published Monday, October 10, 2005 by Los | E-mail this post

Image thanks to The Propaganda Remix Project

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." ~ Aldous Huxley

Growing up, I never seriously considered joining the military, that is until high school. In the beginning quarter of my first year of high school I had joined to take a class of which I hardly knew anything about. It was called JROTC and looked fun enough - they went camping, did lots of physical training and all the like. It stands for Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. I didn't find until a little later that because there was a 'Junior' so there was a 'senior,' the college ROTC program. Well, I stayed with the program all during high school and did quite well with it (subjectively speaking). I got a couple of scholarships to different universities but the kicker was they were ROTC scholarships. Coming from a regular middle class family, we didn't have the money to pay for college - this seemed like a good opportunity.

Of course in the back of my mind there was always the question of war. What about war? I didn't want to kill anyone. And I certainly didn't want to be killed. When I was young I remember imagining what it would be like to be a soldier. This naturally lead to thoughts of war and the soldiers I'd be fighting. What would make them different then me? They have a family they love as well as their country they are serving - and it is really the interests of politicians we'd be fighting over - not real individual matters. Well the lure of college was enough to press all that back deep in my mind. If only for a little while. After the first semester of ROTC I quit the program. If I hadn't I'd likely be either in Iraq or in a body bag right now.

These kids are manipulated to murder each other for the goals of corporate and government fascism. And by fascism I mean the United States! I know other countries recruit and even do mandatory military time for their youth. However, I don't live over there. I live here and this is what I know. The US manipulates kids to kill for college money. This manipulation is further enhanced by creating and ingraining since childhood this superior ideology that we are God's people, God is on our side, we are one nation under God and so on. I mean how stupid can a people get??? Well, one can easily fight the enemy when the enemy is godless or worse. Remember General Bokin saying the US was fighting a war against Satan?

What insanity.

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