Wednesday, April 15, 2020

personally?

i think that bringing in war imagery during a pandemic is actually fairly inappropriate. i think that's actually fairly tone-deaf and kind of insensitive.

the ruling class seems to think it's war propaganda actually works, for some reason. but, nobody except the elite looks back at these world wars as a period of increased nationalist fervour, or whatever warped perception that the rulers seem to have about this. most people just interpret these wars as a lot of senseless slaughter. and, as wwII exits our living memory, what is left to replace it - korea. vietnam. aghanistan. iraq. - is even less likely to generate the kind of response in us that our rulers seem to think it's going to.

i'd stop doing that, if it were up to me.

nobody wants to rally around war imagery in 2020.

it's kind of barbaric.