Browsing: which is not based on valuing life. It’s based on “winning.”

 It’s almost embarrassing to confess this, but yeah, that’s me (or used to be me), sitting back in my easy chair, waving a flag. My “nationality” is such a profound, lifelong part of who I am I rarely actually questioned it. At best I shrugged, then momentarily glared in anger at . . . the government, the media, whoever. Why do we have a trillion-dollar military budget, or a president who wants to up it to 1.5 $trillion? Why do we always have an enemy or two or three, who isn’t as human as we are and must be defeated, or at least arrested?