Anyone Else Tired of the "wars"?

[Knight Templar]

I'm not talking of course about the wars that involve people trying to do violence against each other for some kind of goal.

I'm talking about the

"War on Women"
"War on Christmas"
"War on Poverty"
"War on Crime"
"War on Drugs"
"War on Jesus (or Christians not certain which is was)"
"War on Illiteracy"
Back in the late 1970s, President Carter made his (in)famous "MEOW" speech where he called the search for energy independence the "Moral Equivalent of War"

Someone once said that Carter declared war on energy. Energy lost.

Why does every struggle have to be characterized as a war?

And finally

The "War On Terror". Terror or terrorism is not a target for a war. Terrorism is a means to an end. Would it have killed them to say "War on Middle Eastern Based Islamic Fundamentalists Terrorists"?

 

[C.E. Evans]

Because people will take "A Peace Offering on [INSERT NAME HERE]" even less seriously.

 

[{ Emilia }]

You forgot the "War on terror"...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's in human nature to make war.

 

[{ Emilia }]

^

Oh, look: Thomas Hobbes is here.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The War on Declaring War on Absract Concepts

This thread needs a snappier title. Something that grabs you and makes you pay attention.

How about "The War on Declaring War on Abstract Concepts"?

 

[trekkiedane]

^Or for short: The War on Wars.

 

[MacLeod]

Lets see I'm a politican in the governing party, we need to be seen being proactive about something. The actual details don't matter because a large portion of the electorate only listens to sound bites. So I need something snappy to grab their attention

"Reducing use of narcotics" or "War on Drugs"

You pick which is going to better for headlines.

Or am I getting too cynical?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I wouldn't call it cynicism, more like brevity.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

^Or for short: The War on Wars.

But that sounds like you're trying to stop actual wars instead of figurative ones.

 

[auntiehill]

People want everything reduced to four second sound bites--headlines only, that are dumbed-down to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It appeals to the "Us vs Them" mentality, rather than, you know, asking people to think and make a decision based on the evidence before them.

 

[Amaris]

People want everything reduced to four second sound bites--headlines only, that are dumbed-down to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It appeals to the "Us vs Them" mentality, rather than, you know, asking people to think and make a decision based on the evidence before them.

Now you're just talking crazy. I've reconstituted your statement for the mass audience:

"Because we are at war with all that is immoral!".

There we go. They'll understand that.

 

[MacLeod]

^ Don't you mean "We are at war with all those that disagree from our viewpoint"?

 

[Gov Kodos]

The War on Wrong!

 

[trekkiedane]

^Or for short: The War on Wars.

But that sounds like you're trying to stop actual wars instead of figurative ones.

Why not go the whole mile and also stop those?

 

[Jonas Grumby]

I don't know. To tell you the truth, I sort of stopped taking anything the TV news media do seriously about the time every news "crisis" started getting its own theme music.

 

[auntiehill]

^And graphic. Don't forget the cool graphic.

 

[Captain_Nick]

The War on Drugs exists to keep people from noticing that the state is ruining the country.

 

[trekkiedane]

Isn't it about time we had this:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkk6fH2u0Y[/yt]​

 

[Knight Templar]

I remember in the first Bush Admin. Tom Brokaw came on NBC nightly news and announced something so awful had happened that he just couldn't believe it. He said some other stuff before getting to the point which was actually out of character for him so it must have been bad.

My parents both went to the television immediately thinking that a war had broken out or someone had been assassinated.

The news?

Magic Johnson was diagnosed with AIDS.

Good grief