Adolescents, late teens early twenties, bombarded with the mighty Phallic power of the state, no woman in sight - this is the age where the male brain is most malleable, susceptible, subjectable. When a boy has a girl waiting for him at home, this would be enough to keep him grounded in heterosexuality, but if he has only porn and the occasional rape or prostitute to deal with his physiological needs, then his psychology will become barren enough for a new kind of sexual object to become feasible. I imagine prison is the same.
Man-woman being the relation heaven-earth, yang-yin, hard-soft, the soldier becomes the soft earth to the masculine will of his superiors.
Only if the soldier fights with his heart alongside commanders who fight with their hearts - McArthur as perhaps the last American officer to allow this process of masculine soldiering to keep rooted in the homeland, the honor, the value to protect -
but since the cold war proxies and especially the Rumsefeld wars, honor has been completely absent - not from the hearts of the soldiers at first, but from the chain of command.
War has become a farce to the soldier, and only his fellow soldiers are on the level. No woman will ever be able to be intimate with him, he must resort to male intimacy - such as CN tries with me, and to which I, a masculine mind a lot of femininity working through it, must honestly respond in rejection, as I prefer to see the philosopher at work and not the ex-army-man.
The Dutch and Belgian military is in my mind the very worst in the world, marked only by the total absence of power. It’s not simply the cause of being a small opportunistic nation of pirates but of being surrounded by the triangle England, Germany and France. Seriously the phrase “Dutch military” sends chills of hilarity through my spine, as the BeeGees now announce a boat full of sailors passing through bwlow. This is not a problem - it only means that I am barred from nationalism. As such I identify far more with foreign cultures than a Frenchman or German let alone American ever could - in this sense the Dutchman is like the Scandinavian, Holland is part of Scandinavia. I saw in some chart that Britain has 95 percent of the population speaking english, in the Nethlerlands that is 90%, against I think 85 in Scandinavia.
Historically we have no shortage of pagan pride, Bataves, Kaninefates were small but respected tribes that cooperated on equal terms with greater forces, and did their fair share of murdering Christian missionaries who tried to cut down the tree of Wotan to prove that nothing would end.
We are an IndoEuropean people entirely - the people who settled around the waters and began to make land out of them are space-creators, “Aryans” in the sense propagated by Lyssa on KTS and Bill on killdevilhill --but the larger empires fucked up and here we are profiting of the mess, having abolished military service, sold out our navy - partially prey to an enemy that was once defeated at the gates of Vienna by a drunken Polok, but far too shrewd to let even the slightest trace of this religion filter into the substance of the dutch mind, which is wholly opportunistic and happiness-seeking. The Ahold concern provides us with the finest supplements in our chicken and broccoli, we’ve grown to be the largest humans on Earth. We have renounced the silly art of running around in the theatre of lead, phosphorus and uranium but we are not too shabby to host the manufacturers of BUK installations on the Zuidas. In short Country, you were running around for the clique that was gathered after the war by the grandfather of our king, the arms dealer who brought together what is known to you as the Bilderberg group. Our present king, married to the daughter of Argentinias fascist minister of agriculture, has a certain style in his chubby meekness - during the day of his inauguration he had the jets that were poised to fly over delayed in order to have a little chat with the DJ. Programmed or not, it made an impression on me - apparently he could afford it to himself to make such a statement.
What I am saying, for the first time to myself now as I have no interest in this other than CN trying to address me in my native language via google, is that our governments acte de presence and our national tradition courage is laughable at best, but our pirate nature, which resulted in the House of Orange, is unbothered by that, as governments and warfare were always just nuisances anyway. Sure we subjected the third most populated nation Earth by pushing a couple of buttons in the way of the British, invented intercontinental slave trade and founded New York - the English always breathing in our neck and eventually overtaking us - but the houses are always remained friends. Not that this something to be proud of - the English houses are loathsome parodies of kingship, whereas ours is simply a rich, well liked family that inconspicuously hosts the network of money. The history of capitalism runs Venice - Amsterdam - London - New York. All the rest of Europe has always been fantasmagorically driven, continental, philosophical and tribal.
How much of this is Jewish? After Venice, hardly any of it. The origins of capitalism are Jewish, and Jews did help create the economy of Amsterdam and New York, but the Dutch and Anglosaxon natures are quite incorruptible, precisely because they are so adaptable in their behavior, so inclined to negotiate with the elements. Weathering storms - that is something Americans never had to do.