re: #160 ObserverArt

I like to think about what motivates people to do what they do.

In regards to all of these armchair warriors like the OathKeepers I wonder if it was all the over-the-top TV and movies they watched where the hero never got a bloody nose and was able to overcome insurmountable odds by their shear awesomeness and a good script. The Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis Effect.

The Mother Jones article in my #46 mostly profiles Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pray, based at Fort Drum:

Pray himself had been eager to go to Iraq when his own unit deployed last June, but he smashed both knees falling from a crane rig and the injuries kept him stateside. In September, he was demoted from specialist to private first class—he’d been written up for bullshit infractions, he claims, after seeking help for a drinking problem. His job on base involves operating and maintaining heavy machinery; the day before we met, he and his fellow “undeployables” had attached a snowplow to a Humvee, their biggest assignment in a while. He spends idle hours at the now-quiet base researching the New World Order and conspiracies about swine flu quarantine camps—and doing his best to “wake up” other soldiers.

It’s guys like him who are gonna save America from tyranny…smh