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In Reply to: RE: If you need such "display routines" to confirm personal patriotism, then so be it... posted by feet's too big on November 07, 2009 at 04:09:53
Hi
I am not sure if understanding this better is of interest but to do that, one needs to have more of a perspective.
That was in the VietNam era where our country was torn apart with disagreement, to a degree most couldn’t relate to now relative to the “Sand wars”.
There were the anti war faction of which I was one, having an unpicked draft lottery number that year.
Then there were most adult Americans, people, many of which had served in WWII and parents of the protesters / cannon fodder.
They essentially couldn’t believe our country would ever send our soldiers off to war if it wasn’t genuinely needed militarily.
This sentiment still rings strongly in many of the patriotic, a feeling that the government wouldn’t betray them so they stand unquestioning or refusing to examine the details.
Even the government recognizes this problematic "truth" issue and has recently put retired military personal on the list of likely troublemakers who need to be disarmed should “the worst” come to pass and martial law imposed.
This from the government that was above all to flow from the people to the government and not from the government to the people.
The point though is “Red” was an entertainer my grandparents loved, getting bent out of shape because you have viewed a traditionally minded video he made 40 years ago, using it as some projection of the current and future, seems to be more like the "Disney style" imagineering to me.
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