War has been glamorized throughout history, but when you get right down to it, war is really, really stupid. From Spartacus at iceni.substack.com:
Hey everyone, Spartacus here for a twelfth Spartacast.
I said something in the last Spartacast that may have sounded a bit contentious. I referred to soldiers as people who get bitten with a patriotism bug and go overseas to murder people they don’t know. That was a bit harsh, wasn’t it? I know, I know. A lot of people in the dissenter movement come from military backgrounds. They’re probably thinking I overdid it. Well, no. It’s actually not harsh enough.
I’m going to explain why military service is a bad thing.
Full disclosure, I come from a family of conscientious objectors. The basis of our objection is religious in nature. I won’t bother to specify the denomination. However, this has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on my actual opinions on warfare. Those opinions, I formed over many, many years of studying war, geopolitics, conspiracies, and so on.
Throughout human history, the instigation of war has been the responsibility of the uppermost classes. In other words, the nobility. Vultures with no moral authority to command their poor subjects to kill other poor people and loot their belongings. War is theft. It pulls money out of a nation’s accounts and gives it to arms-makers, so that they may arm a giant pack of bandits and thugs to impose the will of the rich of one nation over the poor of another. This pack of bandits and thugs is drawn from the ranks of the best and healthiest stock of a nation, its young men who would otherwise be childless and restless and rowdy, eager to displace the nobility and take their wives and their money for their own. These young men are physically and mentally abused, their bodies put through the wringer and their heads repetitiously drilled with cultish jargon until they are broken enough to commit murder on command.
