When I went to Greece, I was surprised to see footage of the war on TV. In the US we’d never see anything like this. We are really isolated from the reality of what is going on in the world and the consequences of our actions. This makes it easier for our government to create policy that is wrong and immoral.
When you say footage, do you mean like actual combat footage?
If so I think that’s excellent.
You are absolutely right the US is completely isolated from the reality of unpleasantness that is often in the world, often because of us.
Our only exposure to real evil and violence is in movies and TV and everything else is ‘tastefully’ censored.
So we debate policy like war and diplomacy completely isolated from the actual reality that those policies create.
When I went to Greece, I was surprised to see footage of the war on TV. In the US we’d never see anything like this. We are really isolated from the reality of what is going on in the world and the consequences of our actions. This makes it easier for our government to create policy that is wrong and immoral.
When you say footage, do you mean like actual combat footage? If so I think that’s excellent. You are absolutely right the US is completely isolated from the reality of unpleasantness that is often in the world, often because of us. Our only exposure to real evil and violence is in movies and TV and everything else is ‘tastefully’ censored. So we debate policy like war and diplomacy completely isolated from the actual reality that those policies create.
Yeah combat footage was on the news
Absolutely. We need to go to websites like krudplug or kaotic in order to see actual war footage.
I think it’s intentional. If more Westerners could see the horrors of war outside of hollywood movies, they might be more inclined to stop it.
Spent a week in the UK visiting my sister recently. There is an overwhelmingly positive amount of support on the TV there.
I get the view that they called the current shit show before the rest of us.