surreptitious75 wrote:There is commonality in peacetime but it is not as vital as in wartime
Obvious things such as religion and sport which bring people together
Tab wrote:Yeah, video games are a thing. My kids play them, I used to play a lot too. All of them involve sanitized violence to a degree, small or large.
If play is the mirror of the psyche, then war/peace is only a question of graphic resolution and granularity of experience lol.
Tab wrote:I was watching some junk on netflix, and in one scene a warrior character was staring thoughtfully at a painting. The painting was a classical warfare themed piece, guy on horse, bloodied sabre, dead and routed enemies, the usual. It struck me that if I had been standing beside the warrior character, both of us looking at the painting, my experience of it would have been vastly different from theirs because I have zero experience of war.
Then I realised that we've been, at least in the west, members of probably the first generations who have lived their entire lives without first-hand experience of war, in all of human history. At least if you take ww2 as the last war that embraced an entire generation, rather than only parts of it.
Anyway, was wondering what you thought about this, and how you think this situation has made our generation(s) different from our parent's/grandparent's.
Tab wrote:I was watching some junk on netflix, and in one scene a warrior character was staring thoughtfully at a painting. The painting was a classical warfare themed piece, guy on horse, bloodied sabre, dead and routed enemies, the usual. It struck me that if I had been standing beside the warrior character, both of us looking at the painting, my experience of it would have been vastly different from theirs because I have zero experience of war.
Then I realised that we've been, at least in the west, members of probably the first generations who have lived their entire lives without first-hand experience of war, in all of human history. At least if you take ww2 as the last war that embraced an entire generation, rather than only parts of it.
Anyway, was wondering what you thought about this, and how you think this situation has made our generation(s) different from our parent's/grandparent's.
Tab wrote:I was watching some junk on netflix, and in one scene a warrior character was staring thoughtfully at a painting. The painting was a classical warfare themed piece, guy on horse, bloodied sabre, dead and routed enemies, the usual. It struck me that if I had been standing beside the warrior character, both of us looking at the painting, my experience of it would have been vastly different from theirs because I have zero experience of war.
Then I realised that we've been, at least in the west, members of probably the first generations who have lived their entire lives without first-hand experience of war, in all of human history. At least if you take ww2 as the last war that embraced an entire generation, rather than only parts of it.
Anyway, was wondering what you thought about this, and how you think this situation has made our generation(s) different from our parent's/grandparent's.
But that is not really true, Tab. Since the Second World War, there have been many /soldiers/warriors from this country who have been/had been engaged in and fought for peace and freedom willingly.
I/we/our genteration live our lives within a certain range of experience - our highs are X high, our lows are Y low. A war generation's low would be waaaaay lower than ours.
Arcturus Descending wrote:Hi Tab,I/we/our genteration live our lives within a certain range of experience - our highs are X high, our lows are Y low. A war generation's low would be waaaaay lower than ours.
Can you add a little clarity as to what you mean by this.
Fixed Cross wrote:What of service for women?
Israel has roughly 2 years mandatory service for them, and roughly 3 years for men.
Whereas women do not generally fight on the front lines but are employed in more protective jobs, their service does cultivate vigilance and value-awareness in them.
There is something very wholesome about that country that our old fashioned nations seem to lack.
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