That spiritual/archetypal reverence has been challenged, however, by the ugliness of warfare, and my personal dismay about the the conflicts of the last few decades. It was hard to feel a desire to honor The Warrior while feeling such deep opposition to the wars in which my country has been engaged. I suspected that my attraction to the Warrior was a romantic, naive illusion, the product of too many adventure stories.
What adventure stories? True life dramatizations, or complete fiction? I'm just wondering if there was an actual war back in those days that you were not opposed to, or do you feel you were just too innocent/naive to understand that that all war is either completely ugly or morally ambiguous? Alternatively, is there any war through history that now that you are older and wiser fits the bill of what you previously felt in your youth was a noble calling?
Just curious. I don't see any right or wrong answers here.
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What adventure stories? True life dramatizations, or complete fiction? I'm just wondering if there was an actual war back in those days that you were not opposed to, or do you feel you were just too innocent/naive to understand that that all war is either completely ugly or morally ambiguous? Alternatively, is there any war through history that now that you are older and wiser fits the bill of what you previously felt in your youth was a noble calling?
Just curious. I don't see any right or wrong answers here.
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