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oicleevan 's review for:
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
by William H. McRaven
an interesting case study in not just "valuable" life lessons but in the delusion of capital-A American thinking. surface levels teachings given credence because this guy was a navy seal! when all throughout this are (first-half) relatively mundane examples and (second-half) borderline propagandic sugar-coated suffering. for example, when a young kid dies in the middle east and he has to console that kids parents:
> "How could I truly empathize with their pain? How could I tell them that the sacrifice of their son, their husband, their father, their brother, their friend, was worth it?"
You can't! Because it wasn't worth it, unless you want to argue that the war on terror was justified and successful.
Being cheerful while not only facing but participating in and perpetuating (arguably terrific, and not in the good way) violence is not courage or strength, it's at best ignorance or at worst evil.
Stuff like this makes me sick.
> "How could I truly empathize with their pain? How could I tell them that the sacrifice of their son, their husband, their father, their brother, their friend, was worth it?"
You can't! Because it wasn't worth it, unless you want to argue that the war on terror was justified and successful.
Being cheerful while not only facing but participating in and perpetuating (arguably terrific, and not in the good way) violence is not courage or strength, it's at best ignorance or at worst evil.
Stuff like this makes me sick.