I’m just listening to Sabaton and
other related bands on Spotify while playing Dwarf Fortress. Sabaton makes a
lot of songs about the men who died fighting wars that hopefully, will never
happen again. WWII, WWI, even older stuff like the last Samurais fighting off
uh… well I
don’t
remember the song, but, yeah. Oh, the Crusades too. Though I innately know the
Crusades were a bad thing, don’t have to tell me twice, but all
wars are bad.
But if I was drafted I’d shoot
myself, not doing that shit. Sit on my ass for life or die!
But I wanted to write about how little life means to everyone
now. Everyone is tweeting, or facebooking, or just trying to attract attention
to themselves instead of just living their damn life. And to be honest, we’re all
connected now via the internet and cell phones, so I’m not really
surprised this is a thing, but to be honest I don’t really
‘feel’ like I
care for anyone or anything anymore besides our animals at home (and even then
if they weren’t in my life, nothing lost, IMO, they’re not
my dogs and I constantly have to clean up after them and listen to my stepdad
yell WHO PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED?!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? Like a dog is
going to fucking answer him. God I swear at least once a day he does that shit,
idk how he doesn’t feel fucking stupid doing
that). And animals warranting more sympathy over a human is a whole ‘nother
thing entirely, lemme tell you.
But back to my point at hand. Basically, life means very
little to most people now. Most people don’t
interact with anyone outside of their friends, and the percentage of people
withdrawing from society is rising every year I’m sure. Whether
it’s in one
way or another, it’s happening. Whether it’s
increased ‘nah I’ll go
out with my friends next time’ or people unable to find people
to be friends with and go out and do things, it’s
happening.
Also, the value of a human life to another human is extremely
low to most humans in my opinion as well. Slam into someone in your car and
kill them instantly? Your first thought is going to be ‘holy
shit I’m alive’ instead
of ‘holy
shit is that guy okay?’ and I’m not
even calling the kettle black here, because I’d do
that myself. But if I was in a crash like that or anything similar I’d make
sure I was okay first and freak out
about my car, over finding out if the other guy was okay. Hell, I probably
wouldn’t give
two shits about the other guy, and I guarantee if I was the one who died he
wouldn’t
either. He would be grateful he was alive and not back to the void of un-life.
Queued some more gems to be cut in DF. Gaddamn this game is
good.
But back to my point, in talking about Sabaton. Though I will
refute my point coming up by saying Hitler was fucking retarded and needed to
be shot before he rose to power to kill all of those people, but, you would
think after a war like WWI everyone would stop and go, ‘Eh, let’s not
have another meat grinder of a fucking war, eh?’ and
just… not do
whatever the hell you were going to do to start a damn war. But no, WWII
happened, the Gulf War happened, nuclear bombs happened, (I’m just
writing not in any particular order), hell, frieakin the whole, what, 8 year
war or whatever after the U.S. got hit in 2001 that wasn’t a war,
more like flooding the area with troops and just attempting to flush out people
associated with the Taliban/Al-Qaeda. Which I thought was ridiculous, I agree we
should have retaliated, but you can’t
retaliate against a group. Though we did find Bin Laden but just a few years
earlier we supplied Saddam Hussein with weapons.
It’s all just a big fuckup,
everywhere, and it weirds me out to think about the fact that literally NOTHING
has a cohesive structure anymore. The government is running on like, 1950’s
software, not to mention nuclear bunkers, and our ‘trillion-dollar
debt’, and
the fact that Congress threatens to shut down every winter or some dumbass
crap. Politics is stupid.
As was said in the movie ‘The
Postman’, (or
something along these lines), Wars would be much more effective if the leaders
who started them fought them. And of course, I don’t know a
person alive who wouldn’t agree with that sentiment.
Instead of wasting millions of READ: MEN’S lives
in combat, and now with the military accepting women… I don’t think
we have the most fearsome military in the world anymore. We may have the
equipment, but the people operating that equipment are idiots. Or, I should say
the people behind the guns on the ground, not people operating drones and shit,
that’s pretty
much a video game. I’d join the army if I was
guaranteed to pilot a drone forever and never see the front lines lol.
My DF game keeps pausing and it’s
fucking annoying dammit uahgnsjfk;sdf
Eh, well, anyway, just wanted to get some thoughts down and
out there for nobody to read lel
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