Most Veterans Say America’s Wars Are a Waste. No One’s Listening to Them.
I am a veteran and wars are a way of enriching military contractors and mercenaries, sowing chaos for the financial benefit of those already wealthy, and helping politicans look “tough” to help get them re-elected.
This is generally true of all modern wars. I cannot think of an exception.
Ed is right. Blogging is basically dead for all practical purposes, and what a loss.
The other issue at play, and this is an ongoing problem, is that blogging is a dead art form. Social media won. People are down to visiting all of, what, four websites? And anything that isn’t channeled through that medium doesn’t exist.
Social media is so inferior; the worst dominate all. All nuance is lost as the level of discourse is that of third-graders squabbling over a piece of candy. And podcasts are incredibly slow and 80% boring. I have no time for those. I can read at least a dozen times faster than a podcast can tell me anything. As one commenter sort of points out, one can enjoy reading something, but audio must be endured.
Fuck Mozilla and fuck the Firefox developers!
I hate those doofus dipshits so, so much.
When I was young, adults of all stripes fell all over themselves telling me how difficult it was being an adult. It was all lies. Compared to what I endured as a kid, being an adult is fun and easy. And I say that as someone who spent five hard but rewarding years as a paratrooper. That was still easier than being a kid.
I am not certain why the compulsion to prevarication here. Was it an attempt to prevent us from being soft?
Given that I was not in any way a normal kid, perhaps I was an outlier. But in this area I don’t think so.