• lad@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    But you don’t think children with a childhood steeped in violence and families steeped in violence are going to grow up thinking about this?

    No, quite the opposite. But what I think is that when a country rallies violence and presents it as something normal, all of the citizens, children included, will be affected. Maybe the fact that those violence factories are near had influence, but I would guess that this influence only added a bit to what everyone got already.

    Except maybe if the workers viewed working for military as a cornerstone for their self-identity, maybe that would become a greater factor.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Well remember, this was the 90s. Today we’re all disembodied digital nomads so it doesn’t matter what is near or far, but back then there was still a sense of place that meant having a bunch of military-industrial institutions nearby would effect the local culture.

      And maybe that’s why shootings get worse every year. The physical location doesn’t matter anymore.