National Service

The kind of regressive thinking that seems to define conservative thinkers. I've never understood this notion that putting teenagers into the military builds character, or gives you 'real world skills'. Even worse, the idea of sending troubled or anti-social teenagers into the military. Sure, let's teach them how to kill people. 

It's just another attempt to use vacuous nostalgia for 'our lost Britain' as a vote-harvester. 

Clearly, you've not any practical expereince of mIlitary training.

It IS character building, in that it trains you to prioritise service over self interest, it gives you experiences that you'd otherwise never think of having, or have the opportunity to do (unless you have money to burn) and in my case it gave me a very solid training in electronics. It also trained me to know when it is apporpriate to standup and put up a fight and when to run away.

Then of course, you get sent out to kill or be killed in a "bankers war" when they next need to make a "blood sacrifice", unless you are lucky like I was and pick the right time to join. 

And to be fair, whilst I was grateful of the training opportunites for self advancement, I found that I was consistently bullied (for what I now know to be my autism) adn it didn't stop when I went to my forst working unit, in fact some staff sergeant made me a "personal project", and after a mere three months I'd had enough, so I quit.

I managed to do it in such a way, that in addition to making my own escape, I seem to have trashed his career in the process. (as I later found out) Result!! 

And regressive thinking is the opposite of the progressive thinking that produces the useless man-boys and deviants that currenlty hold sway over your thinking and "lead" our country.

Like the current chanractlerless prat who having got us into a shooting war with the Russians (which they have not actually informed us PLEBS that we are in, but the russians know alright who is operating those storm shadow missiles, and it isn't the Ukrainins ) suddenly realsies that he doesn't want to be a "wartime prime minster" so having got us Ba**s deep into that mess, is seeking to bail out quickly and leave the mess to someone else.

Still, we get the leaders that we deserve...

I Sperg said:

And regressive thinking is the opposite of the progressive thinking that produces the useless man-boys and deviants that currenlty hold sway over your thinking and "lead" our country.

You were winning me over until I read the above line. Useless man-boys and deviants? Come on, man. That's some judgmental *** you're spouting there and, once again, harkening back to a time that never was. 

I once attended a talk given by a former SAS soldier. He said that he was clinically diagnosed as a psychopath whilst serving. It helped him do his job. His job was to go into a high-risk situation and kill an " x-ray" - another human who had been identified by the proper authority as requiring to be killed. Job done, no regrets, no remorse. Killing an x-ray was like stamping on a cockroach. He was not in a command position because he was not good at nuanced decision-making, but he was (apparently) very good at his particular job, and the rest of us can sleep easier in our beds because of it.

The insane Brain, goes mainly down the drain.

Repeat that line enough and you can become like me!

Captain Grover said:

Sane is the new insane. 

That sounded better in my head. 

You heard that voice too then? Spooky!

Captain Grover said:

Sane is the new insane. 

That sounded better in my head. 

You heard that voice too then? Spooky!

The insane Brain, goes mainly down the drain.

Repeat that line enough and you can become like me!