{"id":376,"date":"2003-03-24T21:52:30","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T01:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=376"},"modified":"2007-03-17T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T14:53:32","slug":"culture-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Culture Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You really want a culture clash, attend the next time some TV reporter interviews a soldier. Chances are you&#8217;ll hear an exchange like the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>TV Head: So, you&#8217;re flying out again tonight?<br \/>\nPilot: Yes.<br \/>\nTV Head: How do you feel? Are you apprehensive at all?<br \/>\nPilot: No. I&#8217;m ready to go out there and do my job.<br \/>\nTV Head: Are you ever worried that you&#8217;ll, uh, drop a bomb on the wrong target?<br \/>\nPilot: No.<br \/>\nTV Head: No?<br \/>\nPilot: We&#8217;ve got a job to do and we&#8217;re well-trained to do it. We don&#8217;t release until we have 100% target acquisition. And when I aim at something, I&#8217;m gonna hit it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m speaking here as a member of the culture consumed by fear and doubt. You want 100% target acquisition, don&#8217;t send me. And there are martial vices as well as martial virtues. But when I watch an interview like this, I can&#8217;t help feeling that these soldiers are, in important ways, my moral superiors, and I hope the TV journalists feel the same way. Somehow I doubt it. <\/p>\n<p>(<b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/philosoblog.blogspot.com\/2003_03_01_philosoblog_archive.html#91525470\">Jim Ryan<\/a> comments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amritas.com\/030329.htm#03280015\">Marc Miyake<\/a> comments. <a href=\"http:\/\/floyd.best.vwh.net\/weblog\/2003_03_23_archive.html#91526581\">Floyd McWilliams<\/a> comments.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You really want a culture clash, attend the next time some TV reporter interviews a soldier. Chances are you&#8217;ll hear an exchange like the following: TV Head: So, you&#8217;re flying out again tonight? Pilot: Yes. TV Head: How do you feel? Are you apprehensive at all? Pilot: No. I&#8217;m ready to go out there and <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=376' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-6-id","category-22-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}