Ruminations in Korea

Comment by My Royal Highness

21 October 2004 @ 10:49 am

well.. okay. {impgrin}

Comment by keith

21 October 2004 @ 10:55 pm

Guitars have to be anthromorphosised it in in the nature of the instrument. Jeff, mate you got to do something about th images on your site - make ‘em smaller? - They’re taking forever to load these days and I want to see your new axe!

Comment by Tim Young

21 September 2005 @ 5:29 am

A Ridiculous Rant Based on an Article in the Korea Herald.

So, some radical lefties in Korea want to take down McCarther’s statue in Incheon.

Well, I say let’s do it.

Pull it down like Saddam’s in Baghdad.

His push was too brutal. He drove the two Koreas apart by virtue of his unbridled ferocity. His unwillingness to play the war game nicely.

Well, who can argue with history, revisionist or otherwise? History is written by the winners.

And they won the Korean war.

By the way, who is “they”?

But let’s not pick nits.
Let’s not stand on ceremony.

If the one statue comes down, I say pull them all off their frozen pedastals.

Let’s collectively destroy every war monument in Korea and in the U.S. to boot. Those absurd shrines to the madness of mass murder must go.

Let’s strip away the lies of the noble ideals…the death cult of the Hero, every bit as odious as the Islamic cult of the martyr.

Let’s burn in effigy images of all the profiteers of war…those who grow fat and rich off whole sale slaughter, sending the sons of the poor off to die, while their sons go off to Oxford or Yale.

Yes, Let’s cast down McCarther’s statue, break it into bits, but I want every single monument to the glorious sacrifices for the Fatherland in Korea destroyed as well. You can’t make a deal with the Devil, and then cry over the fine print.

Hypocrisy.

All the muscled monuments dedicated to the Shadow of the Lie…all those mothers and fathers offering up their sons for sacrifice at the imaginary altar of the State.

Let’s tear down all the statues, and begin to think for ourselves. What a giddy proposal!

But I doubt this will happen.

It is far too easy to blame the OTHER. McCarther’s statue will probably be removed and history will shift and mutate, as it always does.

But another will take his place. There is always a pedastal waiting for some sap too afraid to think for himself. There is always someone ready to fling himelf into the fray. and there is always someone willing to order another’s boy into harm’s way, while they escape to some exclusive club. And there is always another to reap the profits and rewrite history and pull down the statues of his predessors,pretending he was the only one carving his statue out of living flesh.

I want to see McCarther’s statue fall.

I want to see all the monuments to the glories of war melted down, and turned into pretentious park benches. I want to see every hero forgotten. Students asking, “Who?” And the only answer given to them will be the sighing of the wind in the trees.

That is what I want to see.