Red Dawn
DocBrain just watched the movie "Red Dawn". In case you have forgotten, it is about how communists take over part of the US, work through a puppet government, and how a group of feisty teenage freedom fighters fare against the enemy.
DocBrain couldn't help thinking about other conflicts, where the protagonist and antagonist are reversed: Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. In each of these circumstances we were the invading army and those who opposed us were the "freedom" fighters. In these circumstances, I use the word "freedom" loosely, as those opposing us were/are actually oppression fighters.
The 1984ish arguement that freedom is slavery is in direct opposition to what DocBrain believes is the purpose and destiny of humanity.
Religions are a good way to organize one's belief in God and to identify with something larger than oneself, but not a good way to separate good people from bad. Religious litmus tests and religious laws are useful within one religion but not useful in the world at large and certainly a bad way to run a nation.
DocBrain couldn't help thinking about other conflicts, where the protagonist and antagonist are reversed: Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. In each of these circumstances we were the invading army and those who opposed us were the "freedom" fighters. In these circumstances, I use the word "freedom" loosely, as those opposing us were/are actually oppression fighters.
The 1984ish arguement that freedom is slavery is in direct opposition to what DocBrain believes is the purpose and destiny of humanity.
Religions are a good way to organize one's belief in God and to identify with something larger than oneself, but not a good way to separate good people from bad. Religious litmus tests and religious laws are useful within one religion but not useful in the world at large and certainly a bad way to run a nation.
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