Are all soldiers psychopaths?
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Me too I know a very old man from this village who comes here every summer, he has 101 years. He was a soldier during the Civil War in Spain, was there in one of the worst battles, the battle of Teruel.... He is gentle, a very nice old man. He is not a psychopath. I never asked him if he killed during the war, it is a very hard question to ask. I will never ask him, in fact, this question. He likes to talk about the war, that nobody likes to hear...
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loreta said:
That has also been my though regarding solider suicides. Especially since the spike in numbers of soldier suicides in recent months (past year). I have always thought that these people must possess some sort of conscience that was so brutally damaged in the war by either what they did or what they witnessed; that they resort to suicide in order to get some relief from the pain of having to remember. I'm not sure if that is in fact the case, but it's something I've pondered about.
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Unfortunately much has changed since then, especially in how well, from their perspective, the armed forces trains and programs their soldiers. Whatever humanity a soldier has before he joins is usually quickly taken out of him through powerful psychological programming learned through decades of research into the human brain. I doubt all soldiers are psychopaths, but a large percentage are capable of acting psychopathically in today's armed forces because of the training they receive. I would venture to guess that a situation such as your grandfather experienced would be quite unlikely to occur in today's armed conflicts. Can you imagine a soldier fighting against the USA being helped in this way today?
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Think the military, as you’ve said, has employed many people and tools to get the best prescribed machine that is possible through programming techniques and now drugs. It was mentioned about video games above and have wondered about this:
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In modern times with the advent of violent video games and TV shows, it has become easier for the PTB to recruit more cannon fodder by conditioning the population from an early age to accept and glorify violence. In such an environment, it would be easier for deviant genes related to the above-mentioned pathologies to express and proliferate. The environment would also create secondary carriers of such anomalies through conditioning.[/quote]
There is a young man near to our home who attended some transcendental meditation university in the US and now sits, apparently, for endless hours playing video games. Don’t know what type, but there seems to be a flavour for military games these days, so this is assumed and not necessarily so. He has now however decided to join the military and is awaiting confirmation of his acceptance. If thinking about it a few years ago, would never have thought this to be the case for him. Now, with his other actions, he is exhibiting, as Lobaczewski describes, a Skirtoidal demeanour.
Another person known was a military diver and we were discussing what makes up the psychology of an individual employed by then, the Xe private mercenary corporation. He said there is one type generally who is recruited from regular military channels, like a captain or similar, an authoritarian, and the others he said were misfits with mass psychological problems. They need that one individual to control them, yet the base unit is full of the latter.
Unfortunately much has changed since then, especially in how well, from their perspective, the armed forces trains and programs their soldiers. Whatever humanity a soldier has before he joins is usually quickly taken out of him through powerful psychological programming learned through decades of research into the human brain. I doubt all soldiers are psychopaths, but a large percentage are capable of acting psychopathically in today's armed forces because of the training they receive. I would venture to guess that a situation such as your grandfather experienced would be quite unlikely to occur in today's armed conflicts. Can you imagine a soldier fighting against the USA being helped in this way today?
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Think the military, as you’ve said, has employed many people and tools to get the best prescribed machine that is possible through programming techniques and now drugs. It was mentioned about video games above and have wondered about this:
[quote author=obyvatel]
In modern times with the advent of violent video games and TV shows, it has become easier for the PTB to recruit more cannon fodder by conditioning the population from an early age to accept and glorify violence. In such an environment, it would be easier for deviant genes related to the above-mentioned pathologies to express and proliferate. The environment would also create secondary carriers of such anomalies through conditioning.[/quote]
There is a young man near to our home who attended some transcendental meditation university in the US and now sits, apparently, for endless hours playing video games. Don’t know what type, but there seems to be a flavour for military games these days, so this is assumed and not necessarily so. He has now however decided to join the military and is awaiting confirmation of his acceptance. If thinking about it a few years ago, would never have thought this to be the case for him. Now, with his other actions, he is exhibiting, as Lobaczewski describes, a Skirtoidal demeanour.
Another person known was a military diver and we were discussing what makes up the psychology of an individual employed by then, the Xe private mercenary corporation. He said there is one type generally who is recruited from regular military channels, like a captain or similar, an authoritarian, and the others he said were misfits with mass psychological problems. They need that one individual to control them, yet the base unit is full of the latter.
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