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2:30am December 7, 2014

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alliecat-person:

fourloves replied to your post:fourloves replied to your post:fourloves replied…
doesnt he compare wars to people fighting over a soda can? is that still going to seem DEEP to me as an adult or no dice?

Yes:

You say war is tragic. I say, isn’t it crazy the way people will fight…

When I was a kid watching Desert Storm on the news, I became utterly convinced that what they were doing was just an amped up high stakes version of what I saw on the playground every day. Or maybe the kids I went to school with were just unusually inventive, but I doubt it. I still think there’s a lot of truth in the comparison of war to bullying and childhood factional feuds complete with spies and crap. The main difference if one of scale and degree.

Desert storm also afforded more bullying opportunities if the bully was resourceful enough. I went from Spock’s Sister to Saddam Hussein’s Wife practically overnight.

(I had a lot of strange nicknames. In my only try at a mainstream high school, I became The Aztec Goddess of Death. I still don’t know how they got these things. At least as the Aztec Goddess of Death I was my own person. Other times, I was usually tacked into the identity of a man or male fictional character: Spock’s Sister, Saddam Hussein’s Wife, Karl’s Little Troll, etc.)

It also alarmed me at the time that kids basically believed what the media and school taught them about Desert Shield/Desert Storm. There was very little questioning going on.