NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
I remember going though boot camp (Jesus! over 40 years ago!!) and thinking to myself how brilliantlly it was designed to break us down and build us up into a useful tool.
I don't know who (if anybody) designed boot camp. I suspect the process of boot camp was organically designed over time to control recruits.
But that system is rather brilliant.
It manipulates people and plays on their weaknesses to create a sense of group identity.
Now seriously...does anyone here think that such a brilliantly maipulative system for brainwashing could have been designed based on either a liberal or conservative POV?
Seriously?
Trying to impose the liberal v conservative paradigm on something like boot camp is just silly to the max.
In fact trying to suggest that the military is anything BUT an authoritarian system of power and control, or and in any way a political event is rather missing the point of the military (and its role in society) entirely.
But as so many partisians are clueless idiots, this sort of goofy blather is to be expected in a place like this.
I think basic training's roots are from the Prussians.