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The War- A Theory on Delusion
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Prepare for a sketchy read- I'm formulating this theory as I go. If it comes out well, none of you'd better go tell your friends how smart you are with my idea, because it's my damned idea.
Pretexts:
1.) The entirety of the country unified and felt unified during world war 2.
2.) The country was in a state of uselessness during the 90s. Although an ostensibly prosperous era, the morale of the masses was corrupted by a blind pursuit of economic success. In short; people were bored.
Ok, here we go:
The boomer generation had their pearl harbor. We have our 9/11. Both incidences were enough to catylize a unifying movement within the country.
Because war gives the country a sense of purpose, we're going to war. There is no war we can't win with our military might except a nuclear one, so there is no real danger for invading iraq. Yet we still feel a sense of duty to avenge the 9/11 incidences.
This is tough to explain... I'm trying to set up paralells between the boomer generation and our own generation... I'll clarify in a bit.
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so whAT's the theory? we go to war to find a purpose?
*NS Underground*
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Pretty much... I had a whole bunch of complexities to it stored up in my head, but I forgot them while I was writing, I guess.
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i think i can kind of follow you though.. like we go to war after an attack because we need to avenge ourselves and basically kick the countries ass so they dont mess with us? o by the way, i am completly anti-war
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ya, i'm sorry but that was no good. We go to war to either gain territory or resources or people power, the avenge part is partially right, i mean that's the reason for the u.s going to there last couple wars
Seize the carp
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papa I think you missed the point. I'm trying to say that this is, at least in part, a feel-good war. There was a foreboding sense of meaninglessness in the 90s, and 9/11 has given us an excuse to explore the possibilities of war for a sense of unification and meaning.
I was trying to draw paralells between our generation and the boomer generation to eventually prove that the sense of meaninglessness was caused by our sense of inferiority to the world war 2 generation, which is often considered to be 'the best generation.'
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I get it. good thoughts, good thoughts.
I mos def think it's true that it's easier to go to war now because it is something to focus on, and in many ways divert our focus from economic shit among other stuff, esp after the 90's 'yay everyone is making money and not doing too much' boom.
I still think I want to become a Canadian tho
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