We can all agree that we have just had too much fighting.
This is the big difference. People here know people personally who lived through war - meaning those who lost everything while their home cities were pounded into rubble and had to try make a new life with just a suitcase and whatever survival urge they could muster.
In the US, war is a Hollywood invention. The bad guy falls off a burning balcony yelling 'Arrrgh!' Cut to end credits. It's entertainment and mythologised machismo. No one is made homeless and people don't really die, because - look - they're back in a different movie six months later. And have probably been through a very public marriage/divorce/rehab in the meantime.
There are always a few traumatised muttering vets saying war is bad. But for all the flag waving and drum beating, no one has much time for them, because they're a gruesome reminder that the fantasy isn't real. So - ignored.
The US won't change its collective mind about war until most of the population has first hand experience of it - and that really won't be a fun thing to live through.
I like to say that in USA, war is treated like a football game. The same terminology is used down to where an all-out pass rush is called a "blitz."
Not surprisingly, Bush the Dim was once a cheerleader. "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
that good ole 'team spirit', kill, kill, kill...
you're right about the words they use to describe sports in the usa.
the cubs strangled the bears...
the lakers destroyed the whatever....
when the tv turns to sports i feel the air around it start to go 'duuh'!!!
well, sometimes athletic performance has aesthetic value, and good teamwork is a joy to behold, but these are just the icing on a very ugly cake, that of what happens to critical thinking, and of how large crowds wipe it away, in favour of the bellowing herd instinct.
it's an excuse to go barking mad, in public, with strong incentive to remove all forebrain activity and go completely limbic*...
aaah, regression, nothing like it! feels so good and 'normal' to be 'just like everybody else'....
and the morons annihilated the braindead...
*(...or 'postal' as the yankees put it.) ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
Being as it is that I don't believe anyone is in the mood or has the firepower to invade the US, it's going to have to be another civil war. And I think that's a very long-term prospect. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
