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NBC's Celebrity "Warriors": "They barely survived the first week!"

Mon, 08/20/2012 - 18:57 — Dave Culver
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  • These celebrities are unlikely to suffer PTSD or to die in the most common way in which actual members of the military die (suicide).  There's no fear, no horror, no revulsion, no moral crisis. 
  • This is beyond promoting war as a hell that is somehow necessary as a last resort.  This is war as exciting sport with no moral component, no killing, no dying, no downside.  Now we don't have to be sociopaths to support the military as a jobs program; we can be patrons of the arts (or the sports anyway).
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David Swanson, War Is A Crime

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(August 13, 2012) If you sat through the two-hour debut of NBC's "Stars Earn Stripes" on Monday, you heard the promotion for next week's show: "They barely survived the first week!"  And you thought to yourself: "Uh, no, that was me."

What intolerable filth!  In this "reality" show, "celebrities" we've mostly never heard of are paired off with current or former members of the U.S. military to "play" at "missions reminiscent of counterinsurgencies that have taken place all over the world."  It's war for fun.  This sport has all the excitement of golf, but without the same level of danger.  Nobody "barely survived."  Nobody killed anybody.  Nobody's suffering moral anguish from what they've seen and done.  Nobody's lost any limbs.  And nobody's a suicide risk, with the possible exception of the producer.

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Touched by War Exhibit, Jera Terreng, River Falls, WI, Library

  • An exhibit of art, artifact, image & the written word
  • Exhibit Dates: August 25-September 22, 2012
  • Public Reception: Saturday, August 25, 1-3PM
     

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