The papers seem very fond of idolising soldiers as national heroes. Anyone could be watching, especially children, and if they see the news channels and papers idolising soldiers and treating them like heroes, then they may too join the army and become paid thugs.
For a nation, the military is useful. It fights off invasions, keeps the country safe. Now, if our military were actually doing that, I'd understand the labeling of them as heroes. For the country anyway. On a biological basis they're simply people who have killed more than the other group of people.
But our military isn't doing that. The majority of the public continue to be blinded by the media into thinking that it's a great loss when we lose soldiers. It's not. The way I see it, a soldier is no different to a mercenary. Both of them kill people for money given to them by a group of people. For mercenaries, it could be anyone, with soldiers, it happens to be the state government. Another dead soldier is just one less mindless thug. Heartbreaking for a family, but not even mildly upsetting for a species.
Militaries always have been and continue to be used as pawns by governments to do whatever they require, which is not always to defend a state against invasion or serious threat to the majority of the population. So, children around the world are brainwashed into thinking that being a soldier is a heroic thing, a noble thing. It's disgusting.
There are TV adverts for the military, radio adverts and billboards advertising their presence to the population. At my school when I was in year 11, we went to a careers convention. There were different stalls for each career path and it was interesting and helpful. But with the biggest stall and the most exciting displays were for the military, ready to recruit children into the armies of governments to send wherever they like and be marked as 'expendable'. Most people my age weren't really aware of what was going on. Why should they be? They're just kids really, only a bit bigger.
Then at another time in the same year, we were told there was a trip to Biggin Hill, a localish air base where they put on air shows, which I think are pretty awesome. We were all tricked. The whole thing was one gigantic advert for the military, another ploy to persuade weak minded children into joining the military, killing other people for money. It's sickening.
So, when a child is convinced to join the military, they undergo a rigorous process of being broken down emotionally. Every ounce of their personality is removed until they're just a mindless drone, programmed to kill people that the government doesn't like. Personally, I don't see the attraction in being broken down into a creature with no imagination and no feelings anymore, and I'm sure if people who were signing up for the army realised what they were getting themselves in for, they would change their mind. I've learnt that soldiers even undergo emotional training, to teach them how to feel emtions that they've long since lost. Now that's pretty sad.
But instead of letting the puiblic know about the shocking reality, the image of the military is sold to us as one of great courage and honour, achieving great things in the name of justice. Well, I've got news for you. Most of the time it isn't. And it's just plain irresponsible of the authorities to attempt to recruit school children into the military, to train them up to kill others. If only they knew what they were getting themselves into.
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