A Soldier’s Tale of bravery and morality

Interesting as it points out the way young men and now women are brought up in Western society. It is not a masculine defect, but it raises the convention of aggression as a means to survive. The isolation caused by such an education begins at pre-school level when competition is taught as a prime survival scheme and a basic necessity for the technological capitalist society whereby people are reduced to numbers, fitted into but not a decisive part of a community that forms the determined unit for attaining supremacy.

This is an expansion of the Marxist idea that forced rote labor demeans the spirit and impoverishes the world of ideas and aspirations and It has been in general effect in the US since its inception, i.e. when the union of the states into a confederacy was attained in 1776 and when the nation demanded a strict conformity and a social agreement to participate in its conquest of the land and consequently the original inhabitants. For that racism was being encouraged as the fear of unknown indigenous Indian nations.

Its success depended on a religious inspired exceptionalism, namely that God gave the dominion over the earth to Christian Europeans. Ever since there has been a tension between ethics and practice in the US, which is exemplified in how the nation is governed. And its army as the expression of its might displays these characteristics to an extreme because it not only symbolizes that power, but also serves to confirm the justness of its actions.

The resistance of this young man is admirable, but it reminds one too much of the White Rose efforts in Nazi Germany, an isolated instance of rebellion, and it will take much more than a single enlightenment to cause a revolution.