War Is COOL

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This website is great: http ://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/kurdi_eng.html.

It's a translation of an interview that appeared in some mass circulation tabloid in Isael with this guy nicknamed "Kurdi Bear", who drove an armoured bulldozer around in Jenin refugee camp earlier this year flattening stuff. Regardless of any kind of political subtext you might like to infer, what is fascinating about it is the simple pleasure the guy gets from smashing things up and destroying people's homes. At times I wonder whether that's part of the appeal of war, the way it gives carte blanche to men to act like maniacs.

[gush shalom is an Israeli peace organisation]

― DV, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't actually think war is cool.

― DV, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Phew.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

the article is still the most interesting thing I've read on the internet in the last month.

― DV, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

REVIVE!

― Revivalist (Revivalist), Monday, 19 July 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/06/05/bulldozer.rampage/

a smaller scale thing but this guy topped himself afterwards cos his bulldozer got stuck, shame.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 19 July 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Most people are not pathologicaly violent so they need a trick to make it simple.

As seen in fahrenheit 911 one way to do this is to listen to certain music to get pumped.

Another trick is to call the people facing them such things as pigs : it's dehumanizes the other side, not being humans it's less difficult to kill them.

Violence shouldn't be easy.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

As seen in fahrenheit 911 one way to do this is to listen to certain music to get pumped.

??? So Marilyn Manson is to blame after all?

(I haven't seen F911.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually in the movie they listen to Bloodhound Gang, among others.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I believe they play jethro tull at one point (i haven't seen it either)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link

The point is they need a "reality-buffer" to keep their mind away from the horrible things they are doing. A "reality-buffer" like dehumanizing the other side. People do that to the police too, closing the communication process by calling them pigs, I would rather like to talk about that.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

REVIVE!

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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