Don't let us continue to be numb

Johathan 2022-04-22 07:01:03

At the end of the movie, when he chose to go back to Iraq, I suddenly remembered a sentence that I didn't know from somewhere, saying that although people's lives were not good when the Taliban ruled Iraq, the rulers used religious slogans to oppress the people. But the arrival of the US military has broken such a seemingly peaceful balance. Many people do not welcome such a world police. Perhaps because they are foreign, or more perhaps because their arrival disrupts the balance, because during the Taliban people didn't have to worry about suicide bombings that suddenly burst into the streets, nor did they have to worry about helicopters rumbled overhead. Life safety is at least what they have.
The Taliban were cornered, surviving in their own way, perhaps to say the same. Unnatural deaths like this happen every day. Look, listen, I'm already numb.
But think about the meaning of the word people. Includes rights and obligations, including democracy. The dust that has been destroyed is gone, so what about the future.
I have never understood politics, but I understand that politics comes with power. All kinds of rights, scrambled or seized. Played out in the most brutal and intolerable way on Iraqi soil.
Especially in the years since I became the People's Liberation Army, I always blame politicians for all the unnatural and tragic events that take place around the world. Not for anything else, but for an equilibrium.
The world in which human beings live today is sad enough. Who is good and who is bad always seems to be measured only by economic indices, while almost completely ignoring democracy, nature, environment, or humanities and so on.
If the economy really represents everything, how can we find that little bit of innocence in a man-made disaster!

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The Hurt Locker quotes

  • Sergeant JT Sanborn: [looking at a photo from Will's box] Who's that?

    Staff Sergeant William James: That's my son. He's ' tough little bastard. Nothin' like me.

    Sergeant JT Sanborn: You mean to tell me you married?

    Staff Sergeant William James: Well, you know, I had a girlfriend and, uh, she got pregnant, so we got married, and we got divorced... or, you know, I thought we got divorced. I mean, she's still living in the house and she says we're still together, so I... I don't know. Wha-what does... what does that make her? I don't know.

    Sergeant JT Sanborn: Dumb... for still being with your ass.

    [laughs]

    Staff Sergeant William James: [kicks at Sanborn] Hey! She ain't fucking dumb, all right? She's just loyal. She's just loyal, that's all.

  • Colonel John Cambridge: You know, this doesn't have to be a bad time in your life. Going to war is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It could be fun.