TO THE EDITOR:
Is there anything casual about war?
Veterans Day is touted and tagged by many extremes. But I wonder if there are more of us out there with true and deep evocation about things past, present and those possible.
Can we raise our heads above the sea of propaganda, look the pundits in the eyes who drowned us here? Can we look toward a horizon of peace? Could we piece together a new propaganda whose agenda is peace but not at the sacrificial alter of justice for evil? Is it possible to execute a pragmatic, functional idealism? Or do we still have to choose sides and mythologize soldiers on this day or alternatively fault them?
I am not certain. But I would like to have more hopeful faith and opportunity toward a nonviolent means of spreading good from one nation to another. We have more brotherhood of humankind now than ever. But violence still perpetuates.
In corporate worlds our heads are stuck toward figures and the boundaries easily contained within that hold our axes to those grindstones. What if those borders were broken down? Is mutual interest in monetary gain really the highest order for cooperation and collaboration we have? In this way are we just mere puppets of greed and power?
The Universal University is more possible now to spread enlightenment and graduate humanity’s subordination to propaganda. Movements have been executed successfully with so much less in times past. Is evil attacking because it sees this potential to be overtaken?
Jason Gayton
Chapel Hill
