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I'm sorry, you still haven't given any context for this type of rant. Is the cat supposed to be Hitler, or a lamb on a bandwagon? What set you off about this picture?
We can't read your mind, so you need to explain why you're going into a tirade, because it just makes no sense here... and I'm sure people are willing to understand if you just make the effort to be understood.
Its an understanding that will not be possible for most to comrehend, instead, throw yourself under a buss on the behalf of george busch, obama, trump, zedong, hitler, stalin, random cult leader or whoever is the key power in your region or life.
Its the fact that people gang up under the controll of someone else and do stuff like that. If you were alone on an island, you have enough resources, would you build a bamboo boat, go over to the next island and wack the dude for no reason? Doubt that, humans alone arent born evil. Most of us want no war for no reasons at all. Its not only about ww2, its since we started to follow the ones that choose to divide and conquer.
So I'm guessing the context is war and it's the fact that soldiers are depicted that triggered you?
If you just put something like "I hate how this glorifies the navy/army/ww2" before your rant, I'm sure people would understand where you're coming from and be more receptive to your message.
This patronising and disconnected type of commenting is not going to make any meaningful impact on the people receiving it - quite the opposite; you make people want to ignore you when you're being hostile out the gate for no reason.
If your goal is to make people turn off their ears and ignore anything you try to tell them, you're doing a splendid job though.
Almost. The fact that we do stuff in large grouos without knowing or understanding why. I celebrate nothing thruout the year, all of it pointless or carry underlying meaning that in no way benifit me, the one living my one and only life.
Some more cruel, some just to boost sales. People are not evil by nature, but surely easily manipulated idiots.
There is no patrionism in me, i just want to be left alone and that people actually starts thinking by themselves, far outside the boxes put on their heads by a larger entity. Why does one collect air jordans? Or fanboy around Apple, Google or Microsoft? Why do we all dress the same?
Why must we watch the same shitty shows? Why do we have to like the same things to not be excluded on the larger scale? Well, population controll and manipulation.
We need no middle eastern wars, or space races, monuments if we are the victors and also the aggressors, we need unity without being forced.
I will only participate in wars if i am the target of it just as i never throw the first punch. Defensivism?
In the picture, they stand there, not truly knowing why. Probably got shot for it in the end, well not the women obiviously in that case. There are many more similar cases that probably stretches back to when we still were living in huts.
I'd like to recommend a book that kick-started my journey into thinking about and understanding humans as social animals and why we gather as we do. The deeply ingrained need to eat, dance, and gossip, and how that might translate into modern times by marching together. And also how important compassion and empathy is for our survival, and why it might feel more distant the bigger our world has become.
Dawn over the Kalahari : how humans became human by Lasse Berg.
There are other books in the series tackling more modern times that I haven't read (I haven't found them in a language I speak well enough) that might actually be even more relevant to where you are today if you can find and understand them... but even the first book, particularly towards the end tying it all together and the social shift from gatheres to farmers, was a great philosophical jumping off point for me.
The first half is quite dry and I'm sure there is better material out there but this one did it for me back in the day. Hopefully it holds up still, and perhaps you'll find it interesting.
I'll add that to my list of books to read. Right now i am again going trough the bio released in the name of known deranged leaders, both political leaders, but also corp leaders, not as a follower of course, just to find the similarities that arent the common ones.
One interesting person to study is Nero. If you like that kind of history, find different writtings from different years/periods(as close to his existance up untill today) and cross reference it in any way you can. It does get weird, but it does also show that people in groups seemingly starts sharing a mind if pushed by a greater entity. Just a tip.
I don't even think people need to be pushed, rather it's natural that the minds of people who spend a lot of time together start to align. In what way they align is where leadership and peer pressureand propaganda plays a role... But I'd love to check it out. Do you have any specific material to start me off?
Btw, I really appreciate that your writing is more calm and focused on connecting and helping me understand you, rather than coming off as antagonistic, these past few messages. Thank you.