Unbridled_Phoenix said:
Wrong. Eighteen year old guys don't join the Marines because they're so eager to die, they do so because they want to live. They want to know what brotherhood is. Honor, courage, and unselfish gallantry are not the Disney movie, "feminized social conventions" you rationalize them to be. But men can only know these things by chancing death, never by chasing women.
It was far worse than the cost of not joining.
The military is not supposed to be some brotherhood academy and a place where one goes to learn to be a man.
Technically it is only supposed to be about being a public servant like a police officer is supposed to be.
Unfortunately these professions are both polluted with bullies, type A personality assh0les and boy men trapped in childhood mentally as they grew up without strong male role models and that includes even guys who had a father that stuck around.
Ultimately what the military of today is, is a giant gang owned by rich assh0les.
Anyone who feels they need to join up to become a man obviously isn't much of a thinker.
There are many other ways and means to build true character and brotherhood without gunning down poor people for rich greedy assh0les.
Volunteering at a homeless shelter, working for big brothers big sisters, biking for charity, being a volunteer fireman, building houses for habitat for humanity and on and on it goes.
The only reason the military appeals to young guys is because the propaganda box that being our televisions constantly promotes being used as expendable cannon fodder for corrupt ends as something noble and it also helps the propaganda campaign to cynically appeal to the male sense of aggression via showing military firepower guns and what have you.
I look at the youth who join the military as exactly what Henry Kissinger called them and that is "dumb animals to be used as foreign policy chess pieces".
Indeed the idea of blowing sh!t up, gunning down people with big guns and travelling the world on massive military vehicles appeals to the young dumb unthinking male, the weak evil and viscious male which John Adams said most men are.
Its a lot cooler in these weak males minds to sail the world and kill poor people with big violent weapons than it is to spend time with a child whose got no parents and act as a kind of mentor and its a lot cooler to blow sh!t up than it is to help nail a house together and fully assemble it.
Don't get me wrong though there are good people in the military and you usually know who they are when the mainstream media is deriding them.
Conscientious objectors, those that refuse evil orders to commit torture, those are the good guys, those are the true American patriots as well are the guys who initially bought all the B.S about WMD's and 911/Bin Laden and the cave only to come to the conclusion while in the service they had been lied to and then wanted out and wanted their own conscientious objector status.
Other than the few proud and the truly brave and the true Americans there are mostly just mindless drones total and complete validation of the Milgram experiment in service.