QuoteSomehow however despite my addiction to reading them beginning at age 10 and collecting them right up until college, I never got sold on the violence and the military as being cool.
Yes, that is great for you. Personally I was horrified by some bible stories I heard when I was 12 years old. But most people are woven of different cloth. The human creature is social and imitating others gives them social approval and many have something built into them which prevents them from being critical. They accept whatever social program they are given without question. They have a feature others lack.
A man can be in his late sixties, he can lose his drivers license, and then be told he can't buy weed or liquor because he can't prove his age. The clerk says with a straight face. 'I don't make the rules'. If the rules say shit on someones life for no good reason the clerks of the world are there to do it. There is a race between most people to do the shitting.
I'm just following orders.
He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
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He's the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from him, and you, and me
and brothers can't you see
this is not the way we put an end to war