I came to a very deep conclusion after I finished chapter 5, Human beings are very complex subjects. It may sound vague and a cliché, it’s been said to me repeatedly but it just passed through my ear and went out the other. As Billy Pilgrim, heard Howard W. Campbell Jr., read through the monologue that described the typical Americans I had to re-read that section several times until I got it. It says, “They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”(Slaughterhouse-five pg 130) humans in order to tolerate have to be able to tolerate themselves, differences happen because if you are unhappy with who you are you take it out on another. Most of the time I think people just smile and pretend to be ok and therefore faking. Some people have a problem with fake people but I think at the end were all-fake, I can’t even tell the difference between real and fake. Reality hurts, and fiction is an escape, for humans.
We often say “try to put yourself in the others shoes.” What I respond to it, is we do it all the time because I am being very honest with you here, if I was the real me all the time then I would probably break most of the society standards, and we are in other people shoes most of the time. “The American army, however, sends its enlisted men out to fight and die in a modified business suit quite evidently made for another man” (Slaughterhouse-five, pg 130) what it took out from this part is not literal is more allegorical. Soldiers go to war to fight something that has not much to do with them, it has to do with the government and interests, the business suit made for another man refers to fighting a war that is not your own. Each and every one of us, have a war, either being to pay the bills or struggle in school is a silent war, because life is a war. This part reminded me of a movie, which I did not really like called, War Inc. the plot of the movie is to explain or show the real point of war. To show what we will get there someday War is not a government thing anymore but a profitable thing humans care more about business than the life of someone else. “Before you kill somebody make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected.” (slaughterhouse-five pg 109) this quote is talking about Jesus and I strongly believe that what it says is right humans will kill as long as it does not affect their economic life. If you kill someone connected with Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda will hunt you down and kill you, as instead If you kill a homeless person nobody will avenge his death. I am not saying that I am going to kill anybody, but human morals have gone down to the point where self-benefit is what matters. In addition, we can’t get by looking inside ourselves but by destruction .
if you want to see the War Inc. trailer just go to this following link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9SFoiYIs_4#watch-main-area
We often say “try to put yourself in the others shoes.” What I respond to it, is we do it all the time because I am being very honest with you here, if I was the real me all the time then I would probably break most of the society standards, and we are in other people shoes most of the time. “The American army, however, sends its enlisted men out to fight and die in a modified business suit quite evidently made for another man” (Slaughterhouse-five, pg 130) what it took out from this part is not literal is more allegorical. Soldiers go to war to fight something that has not much to do with them, it has to do with the government and interests, the business suit made for another man refers to fighting a war that is not your own. Each and every one of us, have a war, either being to pay the bills or struggle in school is a silent war, because life is a war. This part reminded me of a movie, which I did not really like called, War Inc. the plot of the movie is to explain or show the real point of war. To show what we will get there someday War is not a government thing anymore but a profitable thing humans care more about business than the life of someone else. “Before you kill somebody make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected.” (slaughterhouse-five pg 109) this quote is talking about Jesus and I strongly believe that what it says is right humans will kill as long as it does not affect their economic life. If you kill someone connected with Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda will hunt you down and kill you, as instead If you kill a homeless person nobody will avenge his death. I am not saying that I am going to kill anybody, but human morals have gone down to the point where self-benefit is what matters. In addition, we can’t get by looking inside ourselves but by destruction .
if you want to see the War Inc. trailer just go to this following link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9SFoiYIs_4#watch-main-area
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