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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 442458" data-attributes="member: 4720">Does anyone else just tend to stare in awe after Celebrim's posts?That may have been too insightful and intelligent for the internet.My God, man!&nbsp; Who are you?&nbsp; Batman?&nbsp; Buddha?&nbsp; The Last Paladin?I do have one thing I would point out...&nbsp;That assumes the public is educated enough to know that there was a time when we weren't militarized.&nbsp; A lot of people think militarization is our natural state.&nbsp; Most Baby Boomers I know think we've been continuously militarized since the Civil War, if not earlier, and its nearly as bad with us Gen Xers, and I'm assuming so with the later kids.&nbsp; After all, from our perspective, the U.S. military has been in a constant state of recruitment since before we were born.&nbsp; And since nothing of significance could have happened before our auspicious births <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> nothing could have been different before that.&nbsp; I mean, I've had conversations with adults who have to struggle mightily with the notion that they didn't have cars, refrigerators, and central heating during the Civil War.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 442458, member: 4720"] Does anyone else just tend to stare in awe after Celebrim's posts? That may have been too insightful and intelligent for the internet. My God, man! Who are you? Batman? Buddha? The Last Paladin? I do have one thing I would point out... That assumes the public is educated enough to know that there was a time when we [i]weren't[/i] militarized. A lot of people think militarization is our natural state. Most Baby Boomers I know think we've been continuously militarized since the Civil War, if not earlier, and its nearly as bad with us Gen Xers, and I'm assuming so with the later kids. After all, from our perspective, the U.S. military has been in a constant state of recruitment since before we were born. And since nothing of significance could have happened before our auspicious births :rolleyes: nothing could have been different before that. I mean, I've had conversations with [i]adults[/i] who have to struggle mightily with the notion that they didn't have cars, refrigerators, and central heating during the Civil War. [/QUOTE]

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