no more sailin’ so long sailin’ bye bye sailin’… My penultimate day in the Navy! Tomorrow evening I fly home to my wife and begin my new career as “Senior Software Developer” at a digital media agency in Dublin, Ireland on Sep. 29. Needless to say, I cannot wait. What a long 6 years it has been. Can’t say it’s all bad and I have learned a few things. The military is not inherently evil for example. Mainly it’s just a bunch of kids doing what they’re told by some old men doing what they’re told and so on and so forth. The original orders may come from the president or god or aliens for all I know. Most likely the machine’s been running for so long that no one is really controlling it anymore. Everything has become spectacle and the spectacle is everything. I don’t like to believe that though. Look what that line of thought did to Guy Debord. It’s less frightening to believe a race of alien lizards are running the show – at least it gives you a physical enemy to confront. Also learned that the military likes to dumb things down to a terrifying level. They […]
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