I found myself watching a music video which had used scenes
from the movie Saving Private Ryan. This video was also set to my favorite song
and that may be what has me started on this emotional rant. While watching the
video, I found it to be quite graphic and began to imagine how horrible it
would be to actually live through something like that. I am not referring to survivors remorse or
PTSD or any other after effects of war but just to have the experience and the
images that result from it burned into your memory until you either lose your
mind and forget or pass on.
I have never been a fan of war and find it silly that there
are people willing to go fight and put their lives on the line for some
aristocrat (or politician, if you prefer) that they have never met. All for the
sake of “saving the country.” Are they
really doing that or are they pawns in a chess board that these evil leaders
have and are being pushed around to see how much chaos they can cause for the
peons that depend on them to rule the masses.
It truly is something to think about.
Think about it I have. ALL DAY LONG.
There was some lag time at work and we were sharing YouTube videos to
keep each other ‘s momentum for work.
Usually, they are funnies but this particular day it was all music. Not so interested in what other people listen
to, I went on my own and began watching the video I mentioned earlier. Since then, I have been thinking about this
war issue and it is eating away at my very gut because it is a horrible,
horrible situation to put people in and they go into these thing so willingly
and blindly and come back disturbed, maimed, damaged, dead, or not at all.
Looking at the excerpts from Saving Private Ryan, it was a
reference to the D-Day invasion at Normandy.
I am certain the movie creators did their best to depict the raid
historically accurate and with the technology available during that particular
war, people were watching their team mates and friends blown to bits not even
inches away. That is something I cannot
even fathom. To be in the middle of all
that fire and all that destruction; trying to cover your own ass and not get
killed yourself and to turn your head and see the person you have become best
friends with or the person that “has your back” simply explode into bloody hell
has got to be a very sobering experience, no matter how cold hearted you are.
Yet people do it…..every….single….day.
For powers that are who could care less about them as an
individual. Only that they are of the masses that are sent to fight a war that
likely started off as a spat between two spoiled people with a bit of power underneath
them to intimidate and show that they can run things. Horrible, horrible,
horrible.
Now, for you readers that know my philosophical side must
know that I am to touch on the whole good vs. evil argument and the Utility of
it all. Because of the very nature of
humans, they have to have some sort of control over things or there would be
mass chaos. They even have to exhibit
control over themselves or there would be no such thing as good at all. Life would be unbearable and mortality would
be as close to triple digits as it can get without eradicating the whole
species. So, there must be control and
not everyone is a leader. Those of us
who choose to step back and let others do this messy business of being leaders
remain the sheep, or the pawns in the chessboard for the ones who WANT and DO
lead (yes, not can and are able to because not all leaders can lead and not all
leaders are able to lead,) to push around and play their sick little game. I
refer to it as a sick little game because when people find themselves in
positions of power, they tend to become corrupt and use it for a personal
agenda instead for that of the greater good.
We have the evil people in power pushing the “good” people
around the chessboard. These good people would continue on with their lives
without even knowing that there is a spat going on amongst them in power and
would not care in the least about it. HOWEVER, the powerful use the masses to
push their agendas of greed and such and it directly affects the masses and
they are pushed into the conflict. When that happens, the masses become aware
of the powers conflicts and begin to form an opinion of sorts while others
simply go off to fight whatever fight they have been sent to fight blindly
believing that they are doing something for the greater good. Maybe it is to protect their own lands but
they are away from their homes and families.
In the modern world, that is protecting the home land from afar but at
what cost? Yes, there are horrible bombs
and things that are capable of mass destruction but when there are multiple
nations involved, what is it really protecting? Sure, we have so called friends
and allies that we have agreed to help when they are being bullied by another
country but, think about it.
You are fighting in a war because those in power are having
an angered dispute about something political or some selfish disagreement has
occurred and those people are causing YOU….the insignificant non leaders in the
human race to go an risk your lives to watch yourself be horribly disfigured or
to watch someone you have come to know as your friend or acquaintance blown to
bits right in front of you. For you to
sit there and inhale their blood-spray or to eat a chunk of their flesh as you
scream in horror at the atrocities that are going on around you, is unspeakable. All this mayhem while the political aristocracies
are sitting in their big rooms throwing about orders that will get you and your
brethren killed. You believe this is the right thing.
Here is something else to think about. Why don’t THEY go out
there into some foreign land, wearing countless pounds of warfare regalia and
fight amongst themselves to resolve the issues they are spatting about. Let them spray their blood on the sands of the beaches and end the
wars that way. What then? Would that fix
it or create mass chaos?
What do you think?
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