re: #449 Gus 802

Which is out there and everywhere. I think even Mike Huckabee is an example in this thread. What he said about Obama reeks of immaturity. Or the current political landscape and the muscle head political commentary and shock jocks like Glenn Beck — all are a symptom of immaturity. But that didn’t start because “men stopped going to war”. Part of what’s happened is that our cultural role models are based on fictional television characters. And think about this regarding our formative years. We stick children in front o television sets for almost 24 hours a day only to be bombarded with nearly 24 hours of comedy. Comedy is great but we’re taking children from birth and subjecting them to this?

I’m interested in the idea that ‘going to war’ was normative for most generations of American men. What we talk about when we talk about that is WWII. Most other wars didn’t have that kind of total mobilization.