Good Morning

By Ethan Van Hagopian
Contributor

Wake the fuck up, it’s time to ponder and wonder about societies complexes. We look at military and government institutions as unreliable pieces of tyranny and power, you would like to see them as pieces of main defense, but war never happens in the west. To the west, wars are nothing but events to fluctuate their stocks, a meeting of shareholders, a launch of new demand. We see these unreliable pieces of colonial art as something to gratify and even to join but in the end, you will come to the conclusion that they are corrupt pieces of autocratical industrialism. You are a soldier. But do you matter? No, you don’t, because just like a product you are used and thrown away with complete disregard for your livelihood. They do not care for your missing arms or legs, they do not care for your grieving widow, they do not care for your fatherless or motherless child, they do not care for the world that you affect with your presence, they do not care that it will no longer be the same. You are a means to an end.

Think of yourself as a pawn in a game of chess, you enter this world of pain and death with no prior knowledge of it, you have never shot a man, you’ve never seen the desecrated bodies of man, the unmarked graves of fathers and mothers, the starved bodies of children littered in the street, their hands, wrists, feet and faces hallowed by malnutrition, the bodies of abandoned infants. Do you think your generals will come to your aid when you dream of these horrors? Do you think they will care when they find you sobbing at night? They won’t! Because these masters of war only take, they take your livelihood, they take your mind, they take your love, they take your arms, they take your legs and one day they take your life. These high priests of militarism only seek to destroy and expand in the names of their tyrants. They seek to operate under the public eye and to disrupt governments with their warmongering intentions.

War is an endless game of inequalities. So, remember no one’s ever really equal in war, anything could happen and no one’s coming to help you if you’re too expensive to help. You’ll just be a number on the scoreboard, a statistic on a computer screen, a digit in a number. To the armies of the world, war is a game of stock market, who’s gonna make more weapons, who’s gonna get lucky with a big hitter, who’s gonna score this deal? They buy from companies and in return those companies set up in these countries and help with the economy as well as give them munitions to murder people with. his goes for everyone! No one’s off the fucking hook today, you listen to me right now. Our world dies every day, innocent people are killed regardless of their affiliations. So don’t cry to me about resistance, because if you want some resistance, I’ll give you some fucking resistance, but I’m not going blow things up to prove a point, because I don’t feed off of terror, I use ideals, I use my brain for what it’s worth. You want to know something, all military organisations are horrible, they strive and stick to conflicts like flies on dead flesh. None of these organizations treat anyone with humanity, you want humanity, go walk the other way, you won’t find it anywhere in the military. Most of humanity is lost at war so that’s when it hits you, you’re ready to throw down your life over a shitty paycheck and a lousy pension if you retire. Notice the if? There’s a reason for that; not all make it home. Are they remembered by their families? Yes. Does that make the pain any better? No. You want death, you want destruction, you want to see a body, you want to shoot guns, you want to blow people up, you want to see your best friends die, you want to watch the people you love die, you want to find peace in knowing your life meant nothing in the end, you want to know how little your sacrifice matters? Join up. You’ll have fun until you’re called up, because no one wants to see their friends die, war just happens, no one wants to tell their families that a beloved was KIA, war just happens, no one wants to accidently shoot a child, war just happens. So go ahead, throw your life away, you’re another number in a war. You won’t matter to them, won’t probably matter to me if I don’t know you. We’ll sit there and say, “Oh how sad, what a shame that they wasted their life.” The war doesn’t end when you die, it just keeps going. You want to make a difference? Stop fighting, use words and influence to put a stop to things, resistance doesn’t work in a world that silences it indefinitely just like how war doesn’t work in a world full of bodies. Just go to bed, wake up tomorrow, have a good morning, drink your coffee, have your breakfast. Armies will fight, people will die, but that’s better than you dying, isn’t it? You want a solution; there is no war in a world where no one wants to fight. Don’t think you’re a coward, you’re not. You’re putting up with life in general, you wake up every day, you accept loss, you work when you don’t want to, you hate, you cry and you bleed. You are the same as a man in uniform, the only difference is that they are killing people and risking their lives over nothing. Be better than a mindless killing machine, orders aren’t always just, so use your head and live life the way you want. Be free.