[lit-ideas] Re: Okay, Eric doesn't have to go!
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:35:55 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
American kids are a tad lazy. Don't see them playing much outside.
Everything's organized. I read somewhere that kids who are in Scouting type
activities are less likely to appreciate nature than those who camp with
friends and family. People today appear to prefer the smell of pine out of a
bottle to real pine and other substitutes for reality (like porn). Still, by
morally and intellectually the Army might mean kids are less willing to live in
barrack style conditions and obey orders mindlessly, like run into a machine
gun no matter what, or patrol the streets of Iraq, or for that matter Vietnam.
I'm not sure that necessarily disqualifies anyone from the work force. If
anything, it shows life is getting enough better that people just don't want to
do that anymore, or a lot less anyway. For the Army it's certainly bad news.
America is going down, but in my opinion from lack of leadership at the tippy
top and because of global capital flow (finding people to work cheaper and
cheaper, like in China and India), not necessarily because American kids can't
do 50 pushups. I'm sure, though, that lazy young Americans, like their lazy
young Iranian counterparts, would mobilize to fight off an invader if one ever
hit the shores.
A little off the subject, the New Yorker is featuring what seems to be a lot of
spaced out looking models, every last one of them with the same slightly open
mouth, all with blank stares. Have they always been so tranced out looking or
have I just never noticed? Psychohistorians talk about trance states that
countries go into leading up to and inclusive of war time. I wonder if this is
a reflection of the trance state at large. People have to be in a collective
trance to have believed the nonsense that was and is being fed them about Iraq
and now Iran.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 20, 2007 12:11 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Okay, Eric doesn't have to go!
>
>> That's by the Army's standards...
>
>Yes, and the Army's standards are, well, fairly standard. Acceptable general
>physical
>health, etc.
>
>The issue wasn't that they refused to fight; the problem is they're not even
>useful for the
>army in any position: transportation, clerks, marching bands, or whatever. Ony
>5% of the
>military does the shooting stuff. The rest are support services.
>
>A friend replied "how will the USA keep things going when those kids turn into
>adults?"
>That's a good question. If 73% of Americans 17-24 are "morally, intellectually
>or
>physically" ineligible for military service, then what good are they for the
>business world?
>For adult life?
>
>yrs,
>andreas
>www.andreas.com
>
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