tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post115185084151275314..comments2023-09-26T02:09:58.787+10:00Comments on diogenesian discourse: snippets...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1152782894180130362006-07-13T19:28:00.000+10:002006-07-13T19:28:00.000+10:00The "initiator" was a big wheel in the counter-rec...The "initiator" was a big wheel in the counter-recruitment arm of the anti-war-movement. He espouses all sorts of gender-political stuff about "power" etc etc etc... Meretricious theory, much of it. I have no interest in numbing my brain trying to read all that stuff so I'll leave it to others more eager.<BR/><BR/>But he had general theories about why men join the military (forgetting that they might equally explain why women join the military).<BR/><BR/>I've heard it said that rape is not about sex but but about power. I can't speak authoritatively you about that, and I would concede that some (if not most) rapes might well fall into that category, but I know of one case of rape I personally prevented from developing (in 1966), and whilst I may not be a shrink, I had the distinct impression that the drunk guy involved just wanted to have sex with the drunk female and that she was saying "no". Ok, you can argue that if she's saying "No" and he continues to proceed that it is about power. Absolutely. But it's ALSO about wanting to have sex. So, "not ONLY but ALSO" applies here.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I separated them, sent her away, and told him to "sit!" The next day he apologised to her and they contiued to be good friends for many years without sex or power ever entering the equation again.<BR/><BR/>Now where was I, oh yes, "carrying a gun and wearing a unifirm is driven by a sexio-megalomanic urge". If I were a psych student in dire need of a thesis subject, I might latch on to that one and write a mountain of sophistry and thus get my PhD. I'd much rather just buy one for $200. It's more honest.<BR/><BR/>Patriotism, sense of duty, family history, socio-political conditioning, socio-economic strata, the media, etc, etc, are all ignored in favour of the theory that people wear uniforms and carry guns in order to strut like peacocks with hard-ons. The man was a fool and I lost it I'm afraid... But then again, I would, wouldn't I? :-)The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1152224849503738122006-07-07T08:27:00.000+10:002006-07-07T08:27:00.000+10:00I wonder, Gerry, if the naive, to put it mildly, "...I wonder, Gerry, if the naive, to put it mildly, "intiator" would have honestly answered you if, instead of sharing your reality, you had first asked "I have a perfectly deadly, well oiled and loaded machine gun I can lend you right now if you will just sling it over your shoulder and wander around slumier streets and alleyways of Todd River or Wadeye for a few evenings. Can you tell me how you expect to feel?"<BR/>Assuming your questioner knows anything more about goings on at the end of the Daly River Road or Alice Springs these days than he knew about the Viet Nam of 1968, he should be able to imagine himself in the fading dusk, uncertain from which shacks or sidestreets he is being watched. The "hard-on" he projects on others is either his own (in which case he might report he'd not be afraid to try your test) or its a vapor of his ignorance and slightest exercise of imagination would make him recant.GreenSmilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126239521640810895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1151937577585768722006-07-04T00:39:00.000+10:002006-07-04T00:39:00.000+10:00JahTeh, feel free to publish suitably edited bits ...JahTeh, feel free to publish suitably edited bits of my email here. You know... Anzac Day, women, women in combat roles.. etc... You get the drift?<BR/><BR/>I'm way too pissed to make sense...The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1151935939002786022006-07-04T00:12:00.000+10:002006-07-04T00:12:00.000+10:00Mothers don't want war but women have to become mo...Mothers don't want war but women have to become mothers to find this out.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1151932143609007712006-07-03T23:09:00.000+10:002006-07-03T23:09:00.000+10:00Phil! My deepest sympathy! I thought you were tell...Phil! My deepest sympathy! I thought you were telling us on your blog that your father had died, but as it was too cryptic, I couldn't say it there. Again - Sorry for your loss, Phil.<BR/><BR/>In many places in this blog I have argued the point that well-organised peaceful people power will achieve what wars cannot. Virtually every time!<BR/><BR/>War is a wank. And totally unnecessary. Peace fucks war. Every time! The evidence is there in history if you look the right way. How many different ways do I have to say it?<BR/><BR/>Trouble is that people generally don't want peace. They WANT war. Leaders MAKE then want war. They BELIEVE their leaders. You cannot save such people form their fate...<BR/><BR/>Was your father a WWII veteran?The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1151928301728928002006-07-03T22:05:00.000+10:002006-07-03T22:05:00.000+10:00Gerry - people like me, who never went, can never ...Gerry - people like me, who never went, can never know. A good mate of mine, a Vietnam vet, turned up at Dad's funeral today. I know this bloke well but, despite that, I can never relate fully to him. My marble came up but, as I knew it would if it came to the crunch, my poor eyesight ruled me out.<BR/>In my purely theoretical understanding, then, I think I'm with you in believing that war cures nothing. I'm sure that was dad's message.<BR/>You take care of yourself, please.philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.com