04-25-2021, 07:30 PM
(04-25-2021, 09:12 AM)BIAD Wrote:(04-24-2021, 08:54 PM)Ninurta Wrote: AND - as far as the "gender neutral" military goes, I can't believe they are giving these folks guns and saying "get out there and defend us, persons!" It boggles the mind. You just know they aren't going to be successful at defense unless they give 'em time to dry their nail polish, remove their hair curlers so the helmet will fit, and SIP that soy latte before they send them out to our doom! And that's just the "men" among them... this is why I advise all young men looking for adventure these days to avoid the military like it was the plague.
One possible rational explanation would be that the emasculation of men and women assists in weakening the idea
of having a strong and fused combat force. My question would be: Who's pushing this...? The ratings-chasing media
or an unsaid system that wishes Western ideals to change.
I have ideas, but I thought it imprudent to put all of them in writing.
Some of the "safer" musings are that, in the old military, it was said that one must first deconstruct a recruit in order to build him back up into the fighting machine one desires. "They" appear to be trying to do that to the entire military, rather than just the raw recruits. It follows, then, that a prudent man would ask himself what they desire to build our militaries into...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’