Memorial Day & False Honor
- Exodus Knife and Tool
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
So I have struggled with how to handle memorial day because like so many things this topic has been rife with dishonorable actions and grifting.
Anybody can appeal to the existing emotional topics of honor, patriotism, and morality, and therefor so many entities and businesses that crap on traditional american values and the oath that every soldier takes upon entry of service sees it as a cheap way to make a buck to pretend for a day to care.
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Being that this holiday is rife with dishonorable conduct and fake intentions I have actively avoided doing anything for it as a brand, but I know for a fact that I have many peers who care about this holiday and who spend the holiday remembering family members and friends while out on their own type of adventure in nature. So I am doing a sale, and you can get 10% off using discount code "madden". No emotional appeals, no emotional story.
Lets get to the core of the issue, the oath that was aforementioned. An American soldiers honor is based in the oath he takes upon joining the service, to defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic, NOT in service to ones nation. In fact taking this oath is the antithesis of defense of ones nation if that nation is defined by its government because defending the constitution against all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC can include ones own government.
Therein lies my issue. How many people are required to read the constitution before taking this oath? What actions are in place to encourage the individual to uphold it? When was the last time that a politician, soldier, or law enforcement officer put their life on the line to defend the constitution against domestic enemies?
Ultimately the entire nation's base of power statistically and collectively between both the business and political spectrum piss on the bill of rights specifically because it decentralizes power, and costs the elites money. The entire system wants you to hate your neighbor, to fear your neighbor, and when a problem arises, to blame your neighbor. But don't worry about your neighbor, you can just force your neighbor to pay the friendly older brother government to keep that neighbor in line, and take responsibility for your well being.
The issue is that a task can be delegated, responsibility can not. Nobody can take responsibility for your well being, and that responsibility can not be given. If you are disarmed "for your safety" before entering any place, are you in fact more safe? Other people who follow rules will also be disarmed right? But are other people who follow the rules really a threat? If a gunman can allegedly get into an event with the president of the United States and open fire (ALLEGEDLY) who safe are you really in your gun free zone? How impregnable are the fences are that zoo, or at Disney Land? Are YOU actually SAFER? And what is "safer"- and how does it coincide with responsibility?
Ultimately an entire financial and power empire have been built on years of programming to respect and fear your armed service members, but that same system that is built on the backs of these service members simultaneously pisses on the only source of honor that these people truly have collectively. Thus we have a weekend of grifting and douche bags pulling on your emotional strings to make a quick buck.
I find topics like this to be difficult, because as a combat veteran myself does knowing and seeing these things preclude me from partaking myself, albeit honorably, in something like a Memorial Day sale? Logically of course not, and yet it still makes things difficult.
Anyways, if you are looking to celebrate memorial day, or not, there you go. If you need peace with the memories of those you have lost whether or not you have served I pray that you find it. If its just a payed holiday for you, that is fine too! But I piss on every commie pos who uses these emotionally powerful subjects and times to advertise things they don't believe in to pray on those who do.
I have follow my Grandparents tradition and place fresh cut flowers at the graves of my ancestors and the KIA from WWII my Grandfather knew. I will always remember him and his fellow vets cursing the generals, they remembered so I try to remember for them, it works both ways.