Armistice Day

[A Very Super Market]

Irreverence may well hide ignorance. I spent most of the day yesterday angrily arguing against remembrance, for remembrance, drawing daffodils, body piles, and other idiotic things. Yesterday, I just about did everything that could be taken as offensive on every day of the week, and I ate my poppy. It was the usual insanity, but how much meaning is it when one sits quietly for a minute and goes on with their day? We are not burdened with whatever the soldiers went through, and we have no way to emulate them. I'm sure, somewhere in the world, there is someone watching some generic war movie in commemoration, and I want to smash it apart. Are we thankful? We are not thankful, at least not the majority and as war goes on and on we grow more or less thankful at the sight of more or less war how do you think the peasants of the past dealt with the constant war and how militaristic societies developed themselves and how there are still militaristic societies today and contemplate not simply remember i remember picking my nose in grade one and so can you so what meaning does that hold none at all but that is the same meaning that war and death holds for us absolutely nothing as they do not signify advancement though they might cause it and even though some of our greatest achievements can be linked to war we simply cannot hold them in the light without mentioning oh what a shame which is bogus can we forget about the war no and i do not wish for it to be forgotten either but separation should be the key i simply cannot understand why stigma is thrown around haphazardlywithoutregardtoonesownregretandimsuretheveteransdotoandtheyregretitwhiletheystillfoughtqu ite

[tibilicus]

So many dead for such ridiculous reasons.

Such moments in history define turning points in humanity, The Great War was one of these. It showed us something of that magnitude couldn't happen again. Unfortunately it did..

[Louis VI the Fat]

Are we thankful? We are not thankful, at least not the majority and as war goes on and on we grow more or less thankful at the sight of more or less war how do you think the peasants of the past dealt with the constant war and how militaristic societies developed themselves and how there are still militaristic societies today and contemplate not simply remember i remember picking my nose in grade one and so can you so what meaning does that hold none at all but that is the same meaning that war and death holds for us absolutely nothing as they do not signify advancement though they might cause it and even though some of our greatest achievements can be linked to war we simply cannot hold them in the light without mentioning oh what a shame which is bogus can we forget about the war no and i do not wish for it to be forgotten either but separation should be the key i simply cannot understand why stigma is thrown around haphazardlywithoutregardtoonesownregretandimsuretheveteransdotoandtheyregretitwhiletheystillfoughtqu ite

I might prefer being send to the trenches over reading that sentence.

[Samurai Waki]

A Little Metallica, and Little Johnny Got his Gun.

[A Very Super Market]

What happened to French pretentiousness? It's art, I say!

[Louis VI the Fat]

What happened to French pretentiousness? It's art, I say!

Lingering frustration over Joyce beating Proust...

Stream of consciousness = another symbol of Anglo superiority typical Anglo preference for form over content. Pft.

[A Very Super Market]

I'll take a page from Duchamp and comfortably settle in here. Hopefully, no one will take the appropriate counter-action.

[Azathoth]

2nded

It's terrible, if we had a minutes silence for every single war in the world we probably wouldn't have enough to time to write a Declaration of one.

What can I say, Armistice Day is usually a pretty happy time for me.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Why does no-one take time to note the nefarious scam the Entente pulled off when they proclaimed the Armistice, which is, IIRC, legally defined as a bilateral, voluntary cessation of war in which no side declares victory or any sort of superiority? Germans agreed to much of the Fourteen points, yet in no way was it an unconditionally surrender. In fact, it was not even a surrender in many ways. Yet that is not what the Armistice was in the end, and the Treaty of Versailles did not help either, as it was a blatant example of victor's justice.


EDIT:

What can I say, Armistice Day is usually a pretty happy time for me.

Arguably, same here. Holidays the likes of these are crap due to the fact that the general mass does not hold any sort of "remembrance" nor feels any (at least not truly) empathy for the whichever victim(s) is commemorated. Instead, everyone is overjoyed to have a rare holiday from the drudgery of work. The people who actually care do not need a holiday.

Not to mention, there is far too much tragedy in this world. Too many renowned men undercut in their prime. Too many common men killed. Why does one man/group deserve a holiday and others do not? Then there is the unapologetic Western bias of such holidays, which are purported at times to represent all of humanity, yet the message is skewed by the method of delivery... I know I am making the issue more complex than it should be, but nevertheless, such overtly sentimental displays make me nauseous...

And the meaningless post spam repeating the same brief message. Oh ya, a few bytes of text are really gonna make a difference for the masses of long-dead soldiers... [/rant]