The military is so desperate for volunteers, apparently, that they are putting up profiles on MySpace.com in an attempt to recruit for their global campaign of war and destruction. Imperialism and hegemony have no boundaries, it seems.
While the success and popularity of a MySpace profile is measured in terms of the number of connected friends, MySpace should consider the option of allowing members to become an “enemy” of a profile. After all, people have friends and probably enemies too, certainly the military does, and they may have more enemies than the 22,000 friends they boast of on their MySpace profile. It would give a better measurement on how well you’re liked…
MySpace users love to blog, but in the case of the military, I seriously doubt they’ll allow soldiers overseas to express themselves on how dissatisfied they are with their current situation and environment. That would run contrary to the Pentagon’s agenda. In the land of the free, only opinions and perspectives that run in lock-step (often jingoistically) with the political zeitgeist is acceptable. Hell, a soldier may even be labeled an unlawful combatant under the new Military Commissions Act of 2006 if he were to say, “It’s time for the war to end.”
Something is definitely wrong when corporatism and militarism invades my space (pun intended).
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