“American kids are immersed in a ruthless culture of violence through entertainment and television, but unless they’ve grown up terrorized by gangs or poverty, they have no idea what war feels like, how it effects every aspect of your life and psyche. They have no idea what kind of harm this ‘cowboy’ culture perpetuates against human beings around the world, let alone in their own towns and cities. War is the natural extension of American popular culture and values. Look at the camouflage clothing parents are drowning their children in. This military clothing is at once a symbol of sex appeal and naive, rebellion without context. And it’s shamelessly flaunted while people are being slaughtered in the Middle East as a result of American aggression. We are objects of indoctrination and recruitment the moment we’re born.”
