War as Entertainment

But the shelf life isn’t what it used to be.

Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash

Everyone likes a good war. We write books about it. We make movies about it. When I was a kid, we played “Army” and pretended to shoot each other with toy guns. We threw play hand grenades at each other. Those who were “shot” fell to the ground for a few seconds before getting up and starting another battle. I even had a toy bazooka for the big jobs…