Saturday's all right for fightin'. Saturday night's all right.

[erastes]

So "Lost" series 3 is going to Satellite.  Yay!  I can't say I'm sad about that, AT ALL.  Best place for it, I say. Can we launch it any further into space? Puleeze?

How do spammers KNOW?  I've got about 20 emails in my spam filter saying "Hi erastes" as my subject line - but the thing is, it's being sent to boudicca @ icenii .... I don't understand how they know... *paranoid*

I have to strongly disagree with Miss Snark's comment :. Writing about "hot button" issues like being gay, and dating outside your race, in the hedonisit 60's and 70's is the absolute antithesis of 'fresh and new'. This is particularly true if you lived through it and are writing your own thinly veiled story. The world has moved on. Time to catch up.

OK - so I agree that it's not "fresh and new" but... hedonistic 60's and 70's?  *chokes*  Yeah. Right. If you lived (perhaps) in San Francisco or New York.  For the rest of us things were anything but hedonistic.  Being gay meant you HID, hid yourself, your nature, your tastes, your music, your true self.  I don't think Miss Snark is in her 40's or 50's - so I rather think her perception of those decades are rather coloured by Hollywood and the media in which she lives.  Reading about people's experiences in those decades would be interesting, I think, particularly in comparison with our anything goes "naughties."

I also have to disagree with people glorifying war at this - or any - time.  Sorry.

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I actually think a veterans day is a better idea that the day we have - with us it's still very much the ethos of The Four Feathers - that it is glorious to go and fight and die for your country, and that nauseates me. I'm not saying that I wouldn't've signed up, at least for an auxiliary position if I'd needed to, I couldn't have fought - but I wouldn't do it for glory, I'd do it out of necessity and defensiveness.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

My impression from talking to veterans of various ages from various conflicts is that they felt very much as you say it--they didn't feel any glory was in it, they went because they were convinced it was a necessity.
The disgrace here in the US is that so many of our young people were convinced of this necessity by a shamelessly irresponsible lie. Those kids' efforts to improve things and make a difference have been squandered with poor planning and worse execution past unnecessary deaths into outright evil. They wanted to be building schools and repairing wells and making sure both our own and another country's people could sleep safe at night. They aren't going to buy into anybody's rhetoric any time soon after their experiences there. The level of anger over here has been incredible, but apparently that's what it finally took to get through to people clinging to illusions.
I don't think veterans have a lot of patience with illusions.