B. (because there's no v in Japanese)

[rich]

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?

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:18 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/movies/wim-wenders-on-sebastio-salgado-in-the-salt-of-the-earth.html?_r=0
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:05 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
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