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6/24/2025, 4:41:52 PM
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>i can't even figure out why i feel this way because it's probably boring and unpleasant a lot of the time.
George Orwell's book "Homage to Catalonia" is a pretty good, quick read about his experience fighting during the Spanish Civil War and how miserable it was. He does get into the left-wing sectarian infighting but he showed up there not really knowing a lot about the politics, and that kind of thing also tends to evaporate among soldiers who are just trying to survive. But there is a part where he sees a bunch of anarchists heading off to war on a train and brandishing their guns and bayonets and getting hyped, and his memory of that particular scene was that war is hell and a mess but it can also be glorious in rare moments.
Anyways, knew a guy who had seen a lot of armed conflict, firefights, had been blown up more than once (even kidnapped), witnessed the aftermath of suicide bombers hitting crowds. He had a blackpilled and nihilistic view towards the idea that war allows you to somehow reach some insight that's otherwise inaccessible. He thought that was a load of crap. There are people who contrast the mundane, boring, normal life they have in a safe country with a fantasy in the "war world" that's out there, but that's delusional. Or vice-versa, they come to think only the war world is real while the mundane civilian life is fake. Actually it's the same world and warfare is boring most of the time. Also the (few) veterans who are like "you don't understand what I went through man" is like meh whatever. BTW a lot of victims of war are civilians for whom it's not a choice, it's something that happens to them.
If you want to gain some spiritual insight on the cosmos or a transfiguring knowledge of life that comes with war, go to the grocery store and buy some meat and then dump it on the sidewalk and stare at it. That's what it looks like. But like I said that's just one view.
>i can't even figure out why i feel this way because it's probably boring and unpleasant a lot of the time.
George Orwell's book "Homage to Catalonia" is a pretty good, quick read about his experience fighting during the Spanish Civil War and how miserable it was. He does get into the left-wing sectarian infighting but he showed up there not really knowing a lot about the politics, and that kind of thing also tends to evaporate among soldiers who are just trying to survive. But there is a part where he sees a bunch of anarchists heading off to war on a train and brandishing their guns and bayonets and getting hyped, and his memory of that particular scene was that war is hell and a mess but it can also be glorious in rare moments.
Anyways, knew a guy who had seen a lot of armed conflict, firefights, had been blown up more than once (even kidnapped), witnessed the aftermath of suicide bombers hitting crowds. He had a blackpilled and nihilistic view towards the idea that war allows you to somehow reach some insight that's otherwise inaccessible. He thought that was a load of crap. There are people who contrast the mundane, boring, normal life they have in a safe country with a fantasy in the "war world" that's out there, but that's delusional. Or vice-versa, they come to think only the war world is real while the mundane civilian life is fake. Actually it's the same world and warfare is boring most of the time. Also the (few) veterans who are like "you don't understand what I went through man" is like meh whatever. BTW a lot of victims of war are civilians for whom it's not a choice, it's something that happens to them.
If you want to gain some spiritual insight on the cosmos or a transfiguring knowledge of life that comes with war, go to the grocery store and buy some meat and then dump it on the sidewalk and stare at it. That's what it looks like. But like I said that's just one view.
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