america is an empire, and empire combines the power of huge numbers of people with an organizing mechinism that is the human intellect stripped of everything el

america is an empire, and empire combines the power of huge numbers of people with an organizing mechinism that is the human intellect stripped of everything else it means to be human. the human intellect assesses what is in its interests and how it can utilize the things around it toward those ends. so america grinds up soldiers. i recently learned special ops dogs are put down after they're too old, but soldiers get the chance to adopt them. the soldiers adopt them because a soldier, even a special ops guy who has been turned into a killing machine, is a whole human. they can't utilize the dog, but they adopt it anyway.