Look, it was a weird time OK
Hollywood's Welcome Home Desert Storm Parade
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My attitude towards war has always been closer to this passage from the Stephen Mitchell translation of the Tao Te Ching, so I found the whole experience pretty disgusting
If you've never read Mitchell's Tao Te Ching, you should. It's a book that I can legitimately say changed my life. It's not the most scholarly translation, but I think it's by far the most evocative
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/08/books-love-stephen-mitchells-tao-te-ching-new-english-version/
@jalefkowit If you like this, I can also recommend The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan.
@jalefkowit Have you read the Tao of Pooh too? It's a delightful wrap on Taoism and Winnie Pooh actually fits it perfectly
@jalefkowit Thanks, I'll look into it. Love stuff like this!
@ras No problem. My post is pretty old, I think this is the cover art to look for these days
@jalefkowit one of my key teenage memories from what must have been roughly the same time was traveling to the next larger city to join several hundred thousand people chanting “no blood for oil”.
If I’d known how many times we’d get to reuse the slogan, I would have invested in making a proper sign.
@slothrop I was a military brat in a military town. You'll have to give me a little grace for not getting there sooner
@jalefkowit oh, that wasn’t what I was getting at, at all.
I’m just fascinated by how different people come from different perspectives, and still manage to converge over time.
@jalefkowit The origin of the whole yellow ribbon thing is comically trashy.
I was a teenager when the first Gulf War happened. An indelible memory of mine is going to a rally at my high school being held for the troops who were getting sent off, and realizing that it was functionally indistinguishable from the pep rallies we held for the football team