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First off, I apologize for the length of this post, but I felt that I would get a much better understanding out of this whole thing with more input from everyone else. Basically this is an exchange between myself and someone who requested to see some basic military photography that I have shared with you all in the gallery section that this person discovered I did through one of my social networking profiles. Thanks in advance for the read;
Per request, an individual was sent photographs taken in full uniform to demonstrate the small aspects of photography I have been experimenting with. They were the German Army Flecktarn photographs featured on this site. The response I acquired about a week later was this;
‘Yeah I took a gander, cute poem and it’s weird to think that military gear is real… Was it some costume or are you just interested in wars?’
Denote the poem part for the moment, but the rest you can tell was coming across as a smart-ass comment, you can tell by the context especially when ‘interested in wars,’ was referenced.
Only afterward a response was given to the feedback;
‘It is mainly collected for the sake of keeping the past alive in my own way. I collect and preserve iconic symbolism that is featured in these uniforms and memorabilia. They can also be used to make a decent amount of money if you get into selling surplus. Collectors like myself also use them for war games or paintball sometimes as well. Not only that but I feel that it shows the best and worst of humanity in various aspects, the flawless details put into every bit of equipment, nothing is unnecessary unlike typical technology and equipment you see in everyday life. In its own way, it’s beautiful.’
After that response I immediately received one back;
‘Yeah the worst and pathetic and greedy. I despise government and military, can you tell?’
Now reading this you can already note two inconsistencies here, one is that why would you want to see something based around the military if you hate it so much? And two, why would you bring politics into the mix as well? Somehow you may already have guessed it, but after a few more swaps back and forth, it was all for a ‘flame war.’
The details were based around how government is unnecessary and harmful, typical anarchists talk. And that the military was to blame for all of the world’s trouble simply because it exists and is armed with weapons that they use to kill people in general, never giving a single clue as to who they are killing.
And my response was relentless; I noted how without a semi-stable government all would descend into chaos, not only that, but the military that you despise so much is what keeps the balance between good and evil in this world. Without them you would most likely be born into a Nazi death camp or cease to exist all together due to the fascist religious extremists that continually bomb and murder countless of normal every day people for the sake of their own convoluted beliefs. And that the world would get to the point where it would be unable to sustain life on the planet from all of the relentless attacks made by North Korea for example, where radiation would create a dead zone in areas of the world that are essential not only for humans to cultivate and live off of, but the other organisms that live there as well would be completely extinct. The world’s ecosystem would be permanently thrown off balance and it would slowly ascend into oblivion.
I also made note that with these ‘biological weapons,’ that this person quotes so much, even though they are forbidden by the Geneva Convention from being used by all participating countries, such as nerve gas bombs and so forth, that there maintains a simple entity of deterrence, which keeps everyone else from screwing around with an all out war on the rest of the countries of the world. Which I assume they meant nuclear weapons, hopefully, which would explain the understood law of deterrence.
After another message was written back stating mindless garble about how, ‘if weapons and government didn’t ever exist we would all be better off.’
Which was replied with the simple stature that if weapons and government didn’t exist, people would use another word and method for doing what they did in the first place; going back to swords, rocks, and clubs for killing that are less humane than they are effective. And that without government ever existing, even simple groups or tribes would be out of the question, making human kind a loner and therefore exterminating itself off of the face of the planet from sheer misanthropy and negligence.
And only after this drawn out fight was concluded did I realize that this entire thing wasn’t even worth my time, but it also raised a question, which is the point of this already drawn out thread;
What does the rest of the people that collect these items do with their equipment? Why is it so appealing to us? And why does such negativity come from it when it’s something as simple as camouflage or body armor? Why do people have such foolish ideology that they feel it to be necessary to waste someone else’s time just to try and prove a point that can never be proven?
To be honest with you, maybe I just don’t understand some people quite as much as I used to think I did. But I want to open the floor to the rest of you all about this and about these questions.
Maybe this just confuses me, but I’d like to open up philosophy to try and explain this better than I could.
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