If the military actually had righteous efforts, I'm pretty sure I'd still be in the Marines and would serve a full 20-year term.
Jumping out of planes, shooting guns, suffering/training with your bros and perfecting the art of being a warrior is unlike nothing else. I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss these things from time to time.
It is a shame that this profession can't be pursued for honorable goals at this point.
The enticement that any male with functioning testosterone levels has for these activities is virtuous. Men innately want to protect others and do cool stuff.
Unfortunately, these virtuous desires are perverted by the military industrial complex to get them fighting and dying for bull shit wars and globohomo.
Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler has two great quotes on this:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers."
“I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.”
Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines in history. They teach you about him in bootcamp but conveniently leave out the part where he got out of the military and became an anti-war advocate.
Reasons like this are why I've dedicated so much of my life to spreading #bitcoin adoption over the last few years. I see it as an honorable cause and a bloodless revolution which will ultimately free humanity from central banking.
#Bitcoin adoption puts an end to pointless wars, and it frees the common man from modern day slavery (fiat currency).
Bitcoin adoption has been my new “mission" in life.
Under a #bitcoin standard, war would be very, very expensive and the state would have to directly tax its citizens in order to fund the war...instead of putting future generations in crippling debt in order to receive war spending immediately.
Under the fiat system we're currently in, the state can use its monopoly on the money supply to fund any war it desires, without the consent of its citizens. It is inevitable that special interests and internationalists would gain control over this monopoly and use it to have other naive young men fight and die for their own demented purposes.
This must be stopped, and the only viable way I believe it can be stopped is through society at large opting out of fiat currency and into #bitcoin.
If nobody values their money, they can't use it to pay for pointless wars. They *can* print as much as they want, but under a #bitcoin standard they *can't* use what they've printed to pay for their own sick and twisted goals.
Under a #bitcoin standard, the state printing money to pay for a war would be the equivalent of me printing "Andrew Bucks" with my home printer and trying to get everyone to accept it. It simply wouldn't be possible.
THEIR MONEY ONLY HAS VALUE BECAUSE OF OUR CONSENT.
A peaceful revolution is a lot better than a violent one.
#Bitcoin is a peaceful revolution.
