I received an email from a good friend about a project that his son has undertaken, to blog along with the Civil War, 150 years after the fact. I think that this is an amazing project, allowing us to experience the war unfold in time. While we can't experience the grinding monotony of Civil War life, the tension as massive Armies move about by rail and sea, and the political gamesmanship of the era, this will give us a glimpse of the span of effort across time of our bloodiest war.
http://www.starsandstripesforever1.blogspot.com/
The US Civil War is still a valuable referrence to anyone studying the art of war. The successes and mistakes of the first true modern war are worth reflecting upon. Not simply because those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, but because when those lessons from the Civil War are applied to the Korean war, it makes sense that some tactics and strategies are truly timeless.
So please pass the link around, this is a project that deserves support. Already there are enough posts to read that I'll be playing catch up for a bit. As always, please be respectful, this isn't the time to refight the Civil War on a young persons blog, but to learn from it.
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Have been a War Between the States student since I learned about two ancestors who died during that struggle, both Confederates. In fact have had relatives and ancestors participate in every war American has been involved with. We were born to fight I suppose. I have a eugenics theory.
In every war our best and most courageous citizens go off and die. The ones who refuse or are not fit to go stay behind and further the population. This causes us to have fewer and fewer citizens of courage and conviction among the populace over time. Our best no longer contribute to the gene pool while the least able reproduce with increasing frequency. As a nation we are doing the exact opposite of what Adolph Hitler attempted. We encourage the less desirable to reproduce and make it harder for the upstanding. Today I doubt you could find enough of this type of
original American patriots who would endure what the average soldier did during the American Revolution or the War of Northern Aggression, to staff a battalion, no matter what the cause. Hell most,even active duty soldiers today, wouldn't put up with the conditions WW2 soldiers faced.
So what does this do to a culture over time?
I think it is apparent to any student of history, look at the loss of morality and lack of respect for others from this culture. Look at the rising number of people with a sense of entitlement that the world owes them everything. We are becoming a poor nation because we have lost too many of our best citizens before their time.
I see where SFMedic is coming from, but... The BEST would generally survive, no?
Our problem isn't a genetic one - though as we continue encouraging the least fit to do the most breeding it will definitely head in that direction - it's a MORAL one.
We've allowed the Progs to destroy our churches, our Families, even to denigrate masculinity/femininity UNLESS it's masculine women and feminine men!!
Look up Derren Brown's "Something Wicked This Way comes" on YT and spend the ~0 mins necessary to watch it all the way through.
I'll finish my thought in the next post...
Now...
If you haven't already, PLEASE Look up Derren Brown's "Something Wicked This Way comes" on YT and spend the ~90 mins necessary to watch it all the way through.
PLEASE don't read on until you have - I swear it won't be a waste of your time!!
Now THINK about how many hours a day most people spend staring at that evil brain-washing machine in their living-rooms!!
What he did there was *NOT* a trick!!
It's called "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" or "NLP" - many think it's how O'vomit got himself elected!
Remember the "obama-zombies"??!!
WE'RE BEING BRAINWASHED!!!
And no - my tinfoil hat really is NOT too tight!
In another vid he demonstrates walking up to a stranger on the street to ask for directions. By the end of the conversation, he asks the man for his watch, wallet, cell-phone and car-keys - AND THE MAN HANDS THEM TO HIM!
It's only after walking away - camera following - that the man realizes what happened, and he finds Brown to ask for his things back. Brown returns them, then asks again and the guy hands them all over a second time!
This is no trick, it's actually a pretty well-documented science at this point!
He could literally have picked any people out of the audience for the final "bit" in the first vid I told you about, and any one of them would have done the same thing as they'd all been subtly programmed without even knowing it!
He has several other vids that demonstrate the same powers - the early part of "the system" when he sends the experts to pick out pictures of people for example - and his other "live show" called "Enigma" is also very - although less clear - troubling!
If this man can do this to a large theater full of people, just imagine what can be done with an entire society who spends most of their spare time staring slack-jawed at "the idiot-box"!
Ever wondered why it's so hard getting through to most people - why they can't see the things we do?
Because they spend all their time watching TV and we do not!
Be afraid - be VERY afraid!
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