rcca: The most popular websites in the United States prattle endlessly on about Jon and Kate and netbooks and Trig Palin.  The evening news covers Michael Jackson’s death and whether your mattress can kill you (find out how, later in tonight’s broadcast).  If some momentous happening in Iraq or Afghanistan gets a bit of airtime, the Average American will pay attention for just long enough to apply confirmation bias and then it’s back to TMZ or MTV or NASCAR. I’ll be coming home in a few weeks, and I will be the Average American again.  The energy I’ve put into over a decade of military service will be redirected towards a job search and recreational travel.  All the passion with which I’ve studied our extranational enterprises will mellow into listening to music and watching movies.  My attention will shift from the 5000+ dead American soldiers to “when does the new Madden come out?” This blog has essentially been a diary of my attempts at a better understanding of a very significant piece of America’s future history.  I’ve been wrestling with guilt over what I know will be my eventual decline in interest in our contemporary wars as more immediately captivating stuff moves Afghanistan and Iraq out of my field of view.  What to do? [comic by BORS] Relax. Listen to music. Wonder when the next Madden is coming out. You’ve earned it. You’ve done more for this country’s “extranational enterprises” than the vast majority of Americans. And we have some pretty competent people working on solutions. People who do so full-time and have the power to effect change. Relax. Listen to music. Wonder when the next Madden is coming out. You’ve earned it.

rcca:

The most popular websites in the United States prattle endlessly on about Jon and Kate and netbooks and Trig Palin.  The evening news covers Michael Jackson’s death and whether your mattress can kill you (find out how, later in tonight’s broadcast).  If some momentous happening in Iraq or Afghanistan gets a bit of airtime, the Average American will pay attention for just long enough to apply confirmation bias and then it’s back to TMZ or MTV or NASCAR.

I’ll be coming home in a few weeks, and I will be the Average American again.  The energy I’ve put into over a decade of military service will be redirected towards a job search and recreational travel.  All the passion with which I’ve studied our extranational enterprises will mellow into listening to music and watching movies.  My attention will shift from the 5000+ dead American soldiers to “when does the new Madden come out?”

This blog has essentially been a diary of my attempts at a better understanding of a very significant piece of America’s future history.  I’ve been wrestling with guilt over what I know will be my eventual decline in interest in our contemporary wars as more immediately captivating stuff moves Afghanistan and Iraq out of my field of view.  What to do?

[comic by BORS]

Relax. Listen to music. Wonder when the next Madden is coming out. You’ve earned it. You’ve done more for this country’s “extranational enterprises” than the vast majority of Americans. And we have some pretty competent people working on solutions. People who do so full-time and have the power to effect change. Relax. Listen to music. Wonder when the next Madden is coming out. You’ve earned it.

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