RE: Is It Evil To Join The Military?

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Is It Evil To Join The Military?

in life •  8 years ago 

I struggle to craft a reply that recognizes your candidness while offering some thoughts in counterpoint. Perhaps a quote to start, "As Ronald Reagan said in his farewell address to the nation, 'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still." While this quote may be the prime example of the things you despise about all governments and the American government in particular; Where is the 'guiding light' speech for anarchism? I despise utopianism almost as much as theism, but, they make people feel secure. Sure, they are illusions that lead to delusions, and a perfect model for sociopaths to attain power, but they seem to be part of the human condition at this point in our evolution; What body of marketing can drive the illusions into the dark? How do you make a social species - only beginning to leave behind a tribal past - see a bright future as an individualist?

I see many, many, anarchists who can and do dissect the current world; Who is building the next one?

Cheers.

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"Who is building the next one?"

I am. As I type this, I am taking a short break from literally building a piece of privately funded and privately constructed energy infrastructure intended not only to serve the society I'm in now, but also the next one, and located, designed and built to survive the transition. I'm not the only one.

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