Benjamin Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 as trumpets spew and the poor die.. pressed into battles not of their making.. become simply.. the dead.. an abstraction.. and you can make them mean anything you want them to mean.. from the somme to ukraine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdelano Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Succinct and to the point. Korea=history lesson; Vietnam=forced killers; Iraq=lies; Afghanistan=bluff called. Syria? Egypt? Iran? Libya? All wars are political and a result of nations acting like children with chips on their shoulders. No, it's not that simple, but it's the history our children will learn. Or not. Meanwhile, we will likely continue to feed the maw of the gristmill in the name of patriotism. Only the grist are patriotic, and perhaps that has some importance, such as "Into the valley of death..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmarti1 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Loved the Somme reference; too few WW1 alllusions.....it needs to be remembered as well. I have heard it said that our modern conflicts are just chapters in the book called "World War One". "An abstraction": insightful. All of these people, on both sides, on both shores, on every point along the spectrum, have been "quantified" into "statistics" instead of "qualified" into "the family of man". And we know who the bookkeepers are. They need to be given gold watches & retired. Of course, I saw the syllabic structure and I like it. It says exactly what is means, with no more no less wording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 From a pastiche of historical allusion... rises a thought that trust has to start somewhere; before anything can be believed genuine, we need to trust what we are told. From the philosophical ...to tangible things like works of art. Or live in Orwellian nightmares. G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Maybe we know in our hearts who/what we can trust. Thankfully, it's becoming clear even to the braindead that the puppeteers are not to be trusted. Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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