0xen 🎩
@0xen
The career path posts reminds me of my most collectivist and also most nationalist take: bring back conscription a la post war Germany. Everyone, male and female should be required to do 2 years of civil or military service. All classes have skin in the game, eliminates the warrior class, war isn’t an abstraction, conscription is a deterrent for wanton reckless military action. Shared experience creates lifelong bonds and cohesion across race and sex.
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Do you really think that America would ever let JobCorps be on par with live-round cannon fodder service?? I fully align with you and the sentiment but think about the water this fishbowl holds. Not trying to be a doomer but its hard to even imagine a world where US Hegemony supports anything like this 😭 Teach4America, PeaceCorps, any other "woke" bullshit is just a succubus on appropriations that could go to bullets /s
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0xen 🎩
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I don’t think we get into half of the regime change boondoggles we’ve gotten ourselves into post Vietnam if banker and lawyer’s kids are going to the frontlines. Do I think we ever bring it back in this kind of way? No, not without major tragedy. But i think we don’t we’re near as hawkish if friends and family are in the mix, as opposed to maybe that one guy we went to middle school with.
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Realistically the upper class would probably trend more towards the peace core and job core civilian wing of this type of conscription. But, if everyone had to do say a mixed basic training it’d do a lot for social cohesion and voters would be less likely to stomach sending their peers off to pointless wars.
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Also blue bloods would have to do at least a little time among the rabble. Harder to be callous and oblivious after that
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@qt
Fully aligned and agreed, just don't see a path to it unfortunately Between cohesion, destruction of solipsistic tendencies, recognition of unimaginable circumstances, etc, the benefits (civil or not) are massive. And they both compound individually and more broadly exhibit network effects. Almost like a no brainer (that will still never happen in the US of our A)
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