<div dir="ltr">but you said it's impossible to uphold the band of brothers myth. that whole men free to love in the trenches bit in GR well thats the extreme but part of the same continuum of feeling. why is that impossible, men (and now women, too) seeking comfort from shared harsh sacrifices?<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:18 AM, ish mailian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ishmailian@gmail.com" target="_blank">ishmailian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>So did athletes and workers, slaves and gladiators...it's a cult, it needs a myth, a  creed, with rituals and so on. Btw, just happened to watch salt if the earth. The miners are not, according to the photographer, slaves, exploited workers, but men who want to get rich. I have a difficult time with this assertion, a cultural pathology in Brasil that romanticizes the plight of the people, the mythological struggle for paradise. <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/movies/wim-wenders-on-sebastio-salgado-in-the-salt-of-the-earth.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/movies/wim-wenders-on-sebastio-salgado-in-the-salt-of-the-earth.html?_r=0</a></div><div><br><div><br></div><div> <br>On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, rich <<a href="mailto:richard.romeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.romeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">whatever your rationale, I think guys in combat is a bit different than working in a factory. throughout history soldiers bonded under horrific/stressful conditions; those in law enforcement as well to a certain extent. I dont believe its a myth<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:05 AM, ish mailian <span dir="ltr"><<a>ishmailian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">But the modern mechanical unit worker, so easily replaced with automation, robots, is not all that different from the office worker who sits in a cubical. One of the most misread, or should I say, misused texts, since by definition a classic is not read but only misused, is Adam Smith's TWoN, a book that, ironically, is forever married to conservative politics, and is one of the greatest arguments against the exploitation of modern labor. In the book Smith describes work, pre-modern work. We crossed over to modern work, as we readers of M&D know, long before Ford and Vibe. In any event, it's impossible to uphold the band of brothers myth on the American side. Restrepo is not a documentary of brotherhood or courage, but a film, an imitation, pornography. <br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>
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