The Nation-State Feeds on the Bodies of Soldiers

AKJECT SUBMISSION DISGUISED AS MASCULINITY"

The Psyche of the Soldier

The State of Being of the soldier:
Offering Oneself to be Slain The bodies of Italian soldiers dead on the battlefield—victims of a gas and flame attack during World War I.

Warfare is often understood as "male aggression" to disguise the abject state of being of the soldier: a way of thinking representing a massive counter-phobic defense against the truth--and reality.

The sound and fury, uniforms, salutes, bullets and bombs--disguise the pathetic state of affairs: Abject submission disguised as "masculinity." The soldier as sacrificial victim.