04/11/05

Modern war has now become a video game. We watch it on TV; middle-class kids don't have to fight; it's so heavily censored we don't see our coffins coming home or blown-apart Iraqi 12-year-old kids with no arms. For all practical purposes, the wars don't exist for most people. That's the way the military and the administration wants it. Most people won't be affected by the wars until it bothers them economically or until casualties get too high. And that day will come, quite soon. I think it's already starting. I am reminded of spectators in the Coliseum, who apparently didn't see the combatants as real people. To them, it was like TV for us today...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/wallace/wallace16.html

from Strike the Root, by Bob Wallace


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp