Paint-by-numbers psychology is layered over tropes which support

authority figures

from the local police to foreign adventures.

Paramilitary operatives are mysterious rather than symptoms of unaccountability.

The empire is

indirectly condoned

through backstories which serve as set pieces. Profit is replaced by duty towards a country that is mistaken but never malicious.

We can’t even stomach the deceit anymore but at the same time we can’t change.

Where does that leave us? What is our option then but to

ignore the past wholesale

even if soldiers-

should have been your ass

are STILL sacrificing for no reason other than profits for elites.

It no longer matters if we were lied once again into this latest war. We are powerless in the face of our addiction.

This is the only life we now know. We were born and bred into these cages and have stopped being able to imagine life beyond

existence as victimization