[4353] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: selling my soul
adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Feb 26 21:29:53 1994
"Defense" is an oxy-fucking-moron. It's all about o-ffense.
Blowing up things. Tearing things apart. Defense. Give me
a fucking break. It's all about this bullshit deterrent thing.
Oh, they won't blow us up, because if they do, then we'll blow
them up even better. To a certain extent it's nonbullshittal.
But, it's farcical, and laughable, to call it defense. You
use the word when you want to feel more comfortable than the
word "military" will let you. Or maybe yer one o' them military-
buffs, and this shit's a hobby. Didna mean ta shit 'n yer cake,
there, sirrah.
Building bigger-and-faster-and-more-effective bigger-dick machines.
Jesus, when is defense gonna live up to its fucking name?
Now, "defense" is just an excuse for technological inertia. Oh,
and we like to use words like "neutralize". What a christing joy.
Inertia, goddammit. Doesn't take a whole hell of a lot of fucking
brains. Kill, kill, kill, and kill the fuckers again. Kill 'em
more deader with louder explosions, make it so we can do it
with a remote control, sitting on our fat-asses back here in the
good ol' States. There, now it's just a blip on a scope. Lovely.
What about real defense? Oh no, that's a little bit too hard.
That takes a little fucking brains, a little goddamn
creativity, and some humanity on the side.
Shit.
And don't tell me "this doesn't belong here".
This depresses the FUCK out of me.
