"Remember, His Guts are Hanging Out!"

"Pushing the Limits" from the April 17, 2010 C-J is the latest example of war-glorifying propoganda courtesy America's free press. This piece gives an insider view of the hardcore military training at Fort Knox, KY where soldiers go three days operating under a simulated Al-Qaeda attack. The soldiers go with little sleep and food: "the pain and agony helps you prepare," says one of the seargents. Here is a perfect example of how the post-human future of America in which people are engineered into robots: things that exist only to work and have no feelings except pain, which is exactly how robots are described in Carl Kapek's 1920 play Rossums Universal Robots. The military-industrial complex is an ideology obsessed with never-ending war and institutionally engineered misery. The quote above from the seargent betrays the agenda of never-ending war. Remember Einstein: "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." The seargent's very use of the word "prepare" shows the military is not there to prevent or deter conflict but to perpetuate it. The fact the C-J and NY Times consistently glorify war (see earlier post about Valentine's Day pro-war propoganda)demonstrates mainstream America's tireless bloodlust despite the carnage of the Bush-Cheney butchery from the previous decade. The seargent's command to "remember, his guts are hanging out" shouted to soldiers simulating carrying a wounded fellow soldier out of harm's way is further support for my idea that mainstream Americans are necrophiles, obsessed with the human body as corpse or mutilated specimen. Familes and children can read this morbid fantasy, but we're not going to encourage masturbation in sex education classes in middle school--that might encourage people to watch porn, and interfere with the preparation for more war.