tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post2078298627134782153..comments2023-09-26T02:09:58.787+10:00Comments on diogenesian discourse: Like ParadiseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-48768932140463721602012-07-13T07:00:02.383+10:002012-07-13T07:00:02.383+10:00Thanks for sharing that, Phil. Says it all really...Thanks for sharing that, Phil. Says it all really. I despair for Western Civilisation (sic) sometimes. :-(<br /><br />On the other hand, I need to reiterate that I was of similar mindset when I joined the army in 1967. I was very clear back then that I joined in order to "kill communists". <br /><br />I thought, back then that, I had excellent reasons for my mindset. Funny how those reasons crumbled into nothingness when I gained a bit more wisdom... :-(The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-57014307950375944482012-07-12T21:47:05.485+10:002012-07-12T21:47:05.485+10:00Oh mate. I have imprinted on my memory an evening...Oh mate. I have imprinted on my memory an evening at my folks' place when a former school 'friend' - kind of, long story - turned up, having scraped into his long-held objective, a place in the RAAF.<br /><br />My old man was ex-RAAF, having served in the Western Desert and Italy. His view on war was pretty much yours.<br /><br />Anyway he asked this cove why he'd joined the airforce - this was about 1970 - and received the response, "I want to kill gooks."<br /><br />The evening ended shortly after.philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12011647023598364166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-45417995313998461462012-06-23T14:17:27.988+10:002012-06-23T14:17:27.988+10:00I ended up in the Army because I believed the Menz...I ended up in the Army because I believed the Menzies-propelled bullshit I was hit with in school and and in the media. It never even occurred to me that we had been brainwashed. I thought lefties were brainwashed. I was a right wing nincompoop. I was no intellectual.The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-68627907450939292752012-06-23T11:57:35.979+10:002012-06-23T11:57:35.979+10:00" They take the white trash first, round here..." They take the white trash first, round here anyways. " And you don't use intellectuals as cannon fodder because they're too likely to run away.<br /><br />Which makes you ending up in the army difficult to explain.AndrewMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09851337124321550115noreply@blogger.com