Sebastian Junger: Why Would A Soldier Go Back To The War?

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Sebastian Junger (Director, Restrepo) asks whether soldiers at war are hooked on adrenaline, or cameraderie.


Why, he asks, would a man taken out of society and placed on a hilltop, want to go back to that hilltop, back to war?

I left this comment:

Why Sebastian..why? That's easy. The men on the mountaintop (Restrepo ain't up no hill) are living in the actual three-dimensional world. Where people are dealing with each other in real time. See, back here in the states, people have been successfully trained to stare at machines all day. Now, people actually carry machines with them in order to talk to other people. People don't talk to people who are right around them. They talk into machines now.

Of course they want to go back to where people are living in the 3-dimensional world. Even though what is happening there is that people are killing each other.

I would like to go to a world like that too, only without the killing. But in our contemporary society, it does not seem to be possible. No one is living in that world over here. They are all hypnotized by the machines.


The Knophfknows posted this interesting comment:

Unfortunately the SOLDIERS ARE ADDICTS. Addiction is passion`s dark simulacrum and, to the naive observer, its perfect mimic. Addiction resembles passion in its urgency and in the promise of fulfillment but it`s gifts are illusory. It`s a black hole, WAR. The more you offer it, the more it demands. Unlike passion, its alchemy does not create new elements from o9ld. It only degrades what it touches,WAR, and turns it into something less, something cheaper...Passion creates, while, addiction consumes, first the self and then the others with in it`s orbit!. WAR IS A HABIT, A serious chemical addiction that the USA sufferes for 200 years. Nothing to be proud of!