Imagine There Was A War and Everybody Would Rather Watch Netflix

in ecotrain •  6 years ago 

Just imagine it for a moment. Think of it as one of the most serious things you have heard. Imagine a world shaped like this. If you are too lazy with vivid imaginations, let me ask you few questions. Let me reduce it to just one question. Would you rather be treated like garbage, train hard with blood sweat and tears, face many atrocities, bad weather and trenches, be shot in the gut, get amputated and come home with PTSD or would you rather end up having to watch Michael Bay movies for the rest of your life (or even worse, watch The Room (2003) on repeat)

What's your answer? It's easy for someone to drop words on courage, patriotism and you being such a lazy bum with a wasted life with no honor. But if the whole world thought they'd rather stick with Netflix than fight a bloody war, at that point we will have created world peace. It's as simple as that. One could join a military and go on international adventures whether it is Vietnam or Middle East and return with a one less limb and a lot of PTSD while some coward sit infront of a TV with a controller playing Super Mario. But if there were more people playing Super Mario, we can resurrect, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and a few more and elect them as the leaders of global super powers and we still wouldn't have genocides or holocausts off mass murder and rape with destruction of property.

Collective < Individual

Whether it is Crusade or Jihad, whether it is Tribe XYZ against Tribe ABC, war is a collective effort. It's not some fight between some individuals. War is about nations, ideologies or simple lust for other people's stuff. War is always wrong unless it is done in self defense. There is no reason for an individual to join a war unless in self defense. Maybe saying "join a war" might not be the best way to put it. So how about you join to kill a bunch of people for shit pay and if you managed to not die and not loose some limbs, you are going to come up with some memories while a bunch of rich people make some good money off of your valiant efforts. Does that sound good to you?

Let me ask this again: Does any of that sound better than Netflix and chill?


I Caught This One on HBO

World Peace Is As Easy As A Paradigm Shift

The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
— Isaiah 11:6-9

I haven't read much of The Bible. But above is the most beautiful quote I've seen from it. In this day and age asking for something like this:

They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift sword against nation and they will no longer study warfare.
— Isaiah 2:4

....... may make you look like a you have gone crazy and lost touch with the reality. But what is reality but what we inherit and what we do about it. If we do nothing and go on as per the ancient times, we are all getting pretty much just the ancient times. The paradigm shift that is necessary is a simple one. In old times it was even engraved in the coins:

Mind Your Business

Trust me, it's not very hard to do. I've been doing it all my life and I've had so much fun doing I and made many great individuals through common interests. You could say we made a lot of peace.

Further Reading:
Spiritual Education Binge: Kālāma Sutta, Non-Dualism, Millenarianism, Millennialism, Messianic Age, Sacred Geometry and Lots of Thinking To Do
Exploring Wikipedia on Philosophy, War, History, Metaphysics

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True enough... colective<individual. You're right, there are many things that right now we can't solve on other areas, but war isn't one of them. Yet honestly, you know how easy it is to influence individuals in a collective. I'm not going to war, not now, not ever, I would only go to protect my family and loved ones... yet there are many people that are convinced otherwise, they're convinced that the military pays well, that they're mostly exercises and they're never in real danger, that they will live comfortable, that they will be granted residence, etc...
Let's face it, if you're going to die of hunger you might as well die on the battlefield, no? But in reality that's just conditioning, there is no real necessity behind it; nowadays money can be made with a lot less danger overall and when individuals realize that, then poof, just like you said: no more wars!

I could say a great many things. But gladly I don't have to because I can simply send you to this link: https://steemit.com/philosophy/@vimukthi/12-quotes-of-timeless-wisdom-from-eric-hoffer-s-the-passionate-state-of-mind-and-other-aphorisms

If it was truly that simple the world would be a better place.

Simplicity can do things complexity can never achieve.
Imagine using a stylus for your smartphone.

Sandburg's "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come" from The People, Yes was a slogan of the German peace movement "Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg, und keiner geht hin", however often attributed to Bertolt Brecht.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg

German version translated: Imagine there is war and nobody goes (to join)

Carl Sandburg
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, writer, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius.

Yes. I got it from the Anti-War activists during the Vietnam War: https://fee.org/articles/suppose-they-gave-a-war-and-nobody-came/

What's your answer? It's easy for someone to drop words on courage, patriotism and you being such a lazy bum with a wasted life with no honor. But if the whole world thought they'd rather stick with Netflix than fight a bloody war, at that point we will have created world peace. It's as simple as that. One could join a military and go on international adventures whether it is Vietnam or Middle East and return with a one less limb and a lot of PTSD while some coward sit infront of a TV with a controller playing Super Mario. But if there were more people playing Super Mario, we can resurrect, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and a few more and elect them as the leaders of global super powers and we still wouldn't have genocides or holocausts off mass murder and rape with destruction of property.

Yes, but that applies to everything, that is why men do nothing to protect the environment, to fight against state oppression, to eradicate trafficking, to oppose corrupt bankers, and many other things.

protect the environment, to fight against state oppression, to eradicate trafficking, to oppose corrupt bankers

As long as individuals with principles that take responsibility for their actions and inaction exist, these things will be taken care of. It's like anarchy. One type ends up being no better than animals and another type ends up living pretty great lives. One has to be lazy when it comes to collective mass movements and diligent when it comes to their own lives and dignity. Who is better and ends up having more impact: Occupy Wall Street type protester or some dude working on some crypto project.

You know what's a good great movie? Little soldier Big Soldier with Jackie Chan, check it out, maybe everyone ought to have a holiday where we play that movie on reapeat all day.

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