hey u/goldenplains wanna eat your words yet?
At what point can we stop blaming "the corporations" or "the state" - and just be honest about a bunch of issues. And I'm NOT talking along party lines here.
The people suck. We've become fat, lazy, spineless and quick to blame others for our faults while taking credit for grandiose things we can't even formulate properly. Half this country is so God damn retarded we can't even remember the topic of the commercial we've just finished watching. But hey, ever since 9/11 we've started blindly worshipping "duty" uber alles, that's got to count for something right?
American consumer culture sucks. We are more invested in Kim Kardashian's rear end and some favorite sportsball team than in our children's education. We read headlines at best and form our opinions about the world based on 280 character snippets - and for those we have to pause mid-way through because two to three consecutive sentences are about the limit of our average attention span.
And of course we can't help but notice this, which is why we've become a sad, unhappy, frightened and mentally unstable people - and we're solving the problem in the most American way we can imagine: by not addressing the root causes and instead drowning the symptoms in alcohol, Fentanyl and Xanax.
You really think there's such a fundamental mental difference between people who'd sign up for the NG and people who'd sign up for the military?
They draw their recruits from the same style of people. The NG is probably actually better in that regard because the military is a "Merica? What ever, just get me out of the ghetto" option for many.
And yeah, sure, the marines. The marines will fix everything and also mow the lawn, make ice cream and fix the roof while they're at it.
Oy vey'ing happened.