----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:07 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran
> I just saw a bumpersticker:
> "If you can read, thank a teacher.
> If you can read English , thank a Marine."
>
> Here's a fun question. If it weren't for the Marines, what language would
> you be reading ?
>
> Charles
>
> --- info at pulpculture.org
> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk> wrote:
> > From what C's saying, this 'rape culture' and demeaning of women is
> coming
> > from the top-down and whatever comes from recruits is simply allowed to
> > exist and flourish. A lot of it's a constant barrage of information
> warfare
> > aimed at these kids, to get them to distrust any ties they might have
back
>
> > home. Hence, the constant talk of how their girlfriends, back home, are
> > fucking around on them. The intention is to break them of their
> > individuality, make them suspicious of any other form of solidarity that
> > might compete with the Marines, softening them up to be committed to the
> > unit.
> >
> > I.e., in boot camp, you don't refer to yourself as "I". You speak about
> > yourself in the 3rd person and you are repeatedly punished until you
break
>
> > yourself of any habit of referring to yourself as *I*. If you're
vomiting
> > from heat exhaustion on Parris Island and a drill sergeant ask you what
> > your major malfunction is, you aren't even allowed the dignity of
screwing
>
> > up and saying "I'm sick" and getting help. YOu have to say it in the
third
>
> > person and you can keep puking 'til you get it right.
>
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