By honeydue on Skatehive
a youtube title caught my attention the other day. it was this guy hanging around subways in the us asking people uncomfortable questions, maybe you know the channel, and the latest question was: should we nuke iran? and of course, the first logical thought is…who’s ‘we’? because i highly doubt joe smith, getting off the subway to go to the freaking dentist is in the business of nuking anyone, regardless of his answer. it is, however, the sort of talk that’s been common these past few hectic weeks. should ‘we’ this, and if ‘they’ that. very non-descriptive, vague terms, and i’m generally cautious about those. gotta be careful with herd mentality. just look at the world we’re living in, eh. it’s highly unlikely that you personally are nuking anyone. and so, it stands to reason you’d take any kind of military action (as satisfying as it may seem) with a grain of salt. because while it replies to a personal need for validation, it does not, in fact, pertain to a personal action. in other