The mother has two choices to make. She can look with pride upon what her son did or get angry with the people who sent him to his death. Fahrenheit 9-11 showed one mother who made the shift, but he showed her because that shift is difficult to make, especially when so many people are telling her how proud she should be.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:21:02AM -0800, Michael Dawson wrote:
> I was just listening to NPR, and heard the mother of a typical working-class
> near-dropout kid who joined the Marines and just got killed in Iraq. The
> mother started rambling on about how lucky we all are that there have always
> been people like her son who were willing to go fight dictators so we could
> all have our wonderful freedom.
>
> I could pick apart the problems with this, but isn't it just mostly a
> reflection of the width and depth of the power of our ruling class? Between
> TV, schools, and Marine Corp indoctrination, these people are just simply
> oppressed victims. They just have no chance to rise above their
> self-defeating kindergartners' view of their own society.
>
> I pray the Europeans can save us.
>
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