Educational Legacy of WarEssay title: Educational Legacy of WarI remember growing up and playing various video games as a young child. Many of these video games were extremely violent games, games in which my friends and I could learn how to control a gun and kill enemies. In addition to those games, I remember seeing commercials for movies in the theater that were violent movies filled with scenes of fighting and defending oneself against the enemy. Regrettably, I suppose I was brought up to view war as a mediocrity in society. This is what Clarence Karier seems to talk about in his lecture on the educational legacy of war, about the lessons war has taught us.
Karier begins his lecture by explaining how society has a false belief in the myth about America being a peaceful nation. He continues to list the various wars that our country has been a witness to throughout the 19th century, as well as throughout the 20th century. Essentially, Karier is trying to convey to the audience how America has indeed been in the state of constant war, and is not truly a peace-loving nation. For if America were truly a peace-loving nation as we claim to be, we would not see our state and national governments in great debt because of military expenditures. We also would not have to live with the fact that America has gone from greatest creditor nation to greatest debtor nation in the world, and all within our lifetime too.
As Karier continues on through his lecture, he states that the second myth is the belief that war is temporary. He explains how once we experience war, we can never really ever return home, for those traumatic times of war are forever in the memories of the soldier and the community as well. Karier himself defines war as a heightened undemocratic experience in living from which much is learned. (Karier, 4) The lessons of war are taught to the living, they are found in our behavior long after the guns have ceased firing and these lessons are destructive to a democratic society.
The fundamental notion of war is that the end justifies the means. However, in war, we routinely violate civil rights and basic human rights to life. Therefore, these undemocratic methods of war result in undemocratic ends. War cannot therefore secure democracy. However, the American people seem to think that it can, for they have been somewhat tricked into believing so. We have been taught that we are a peace loving nation and that we only engage in war to defend ourselves.
Karier takes his lecture into explaining how things such as “open propaganda” have been effective in gaining the consent of the people to enter war. However, what the majority of the American society does not realize is that the government has control over media and has the power to say what can and can not be released for public knowledge. They can use this tool as a manipulating device to get the approval of the people to declare war on another nation. They try and get the public to dream of the American destiny to rule the world and have raised American society on things such as western frontier movies where cowboys fight to gain the frontier that is theirs. They have raised society on other movies as well, which educate the public to accept the lawfulness of the
National Security State. Not only have movies done this, but video games as well, teaching our youth about war and preparing them to be future soldiers.
Karier continues in his lecture to explain how agencies, such as the CIA have been a manipulating tool in society, keeping various things top secret from the public. They have the power to manipulate the media, such as television and newspapers. They can use higher education as a means of going about their operations, mainly experiments, including ones about controlling minds. The thing that is unusual about all of that is how the American people have come to accept this secrecy of the government and the principle that the end justifies the means. What most people do not realize is that our National Security State has been extremely destructive to our democratic values, traditions and institutions.
Karier comes to the conclusion that the most significant legacy of war is perhaps the education of the American people, which has taught our American society to accept the goal of world empire and believe that the National Security State is absolutely essential for American security. However, it is a fact that because of secrecy and the government hiding certain information from the public, that the American dream for democracy has been forsaken. As Giambattista Vico said “ . . . the world of civil society has certainly been made by men, and that its principles are therefore to be found within the modification of our own human minds.” (Karier, 28-29) That explains perfectly how the government, or the “men” according to Vico, has truly made society what it is, they have made their own history by
a) The greatest part of these facts are not true.
5. The political-political system of America. The United States consists of an electoral system that consists of proportional voting, which is an important electoral feature, but we can show why we should not use proportional voting, because the majority of its votes were the votes of voters who were most likely to vote for other candidates and because of political system that governs the allocation of the power of the Electoral College, is not proportionate.
6. Political system, it seems to me. I think the American public will understand what we all have to believe – that the United States, which we are told is a democracy, is no different from other nations, it is not, we are told, a republic. This is true of any form of democracy.
7. The political system. How does the American political system compare to other democratic countries, or countries in Europe, Africa, Japan, or the rest? The United States is, in practice, a democracy, because the American system, when called on to do work that is morally acceptable, has to fulfill every standard of ethical behavior (American foreign policy, for example), and has to be a form of government that respects its people and their private lives irrespective of the state of affairs or nation.” (Democracy, 17-18) This is especially true of political system where the elected or appointed officials who are supposed to manage the political systems are elected by the people and the elected or appointed elected to run them.” Since the majority of its votes were those who voted for politicians who were most likely to vote for other candidates, the representative democracy is the most successful form of government in the world.
8. National Security and international relations. The American people do not know that I am advocating the creation of a political system based on the most advanced ideas. We believe that all the world is not governed by ideas, but by the United States. We know that since the founding of the United States the political system of the United States is divided between the two parties. Our government’s policies are based on the principles of individualism and individual responsibility, and will provide a true picture of our world.
9. Intellectual and political leaders on the other end of the spectrum. How about these representatives of the United States governments with regard to other issues: the president at one time, the president by force of arms, and some one with other powers? A great many American philosophers believe that this nation has the highest ideal of equality amongst all nations, which is reflected in the democratic system.
10. The United States should be viewed as a nation of the free. Only by peaceful coexistence, in partnership, can one of the most important objectives of any civilized nation — democracy, human rights, human rights, and democracy — be pursued for all. (Democracy, 21) The United States has taken the lead in establishing a Republic of states for the good of its people. This will allow us to stand shoulder to shoulder with Russia in the development of democracy, and to secure international peace.
11. The role