Why is Der Totale Krieg so weirdly exiting idea? A war, where it's all hands on deck and a pure mass industrial warfare, where a mere singel human is just a paste lubing it's gears.
Why is Der Totale Krieg so weirdly exiting idea?
Why is Der Totale Krieg so weirdly exiting idea? A war, where it's all hands on deck and a pure mass industrial warfare, where a mere singel human is just a paste lubing it's gears.
I guess it's a nice feeling to know that no matter what you're doing you're fighting for your country and unlike modern conflicts total war implies that either your nation wins or ceases to be so it's easy to become patriotic at a time like that. They're morally easy to digest and you don't need a 40 page powerpoint to understand what's going on and what's gonna happen
I think you got it. WWII, it was a fight for survival. Either your side won, or you were crushed under your opponents boot as a vessel serf class. USA hasn't had a war like that since. Guys came back from Korea, Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan (for me personally) and just wonder what it was all for in the long run. You almost long for a war you never fought in, one that had a sense of purpose.
it's because you're autistic and have never lived in hard times
Explain this theory.
You're posting on PrepHole.
>violent jihad, but in German
So just a violent jihad then these days?
WW2 wasn't even a total war until America entered the war.
It appeals to the "Do or Die" instinct that makes every red blooded man excited like a chimp entering battle
It's not exiting, you've just been fed a glorified view of it because the countries that did something exactly like that won and wanted to make sure they looked like what they were doing was glorious and hard-fought instead of utterly stupid and wasteful.
Even if you "win" your economy is absolutely fucked and you'll be lucky if your country doesn't collapse, coup or revolution within 10 years.
Excite is spelled with a "c" dudebros. Exiting is when you leave the building.
Because you haven't lived through it and have no idea how bad it could be.
Let me give you an example:
WWII was so awful, so horrifying and insane in terms of death and destruction that, after the war, a whole bunch of men who would be staunch right wing conservative nationalists by today's standard in any Western country, wrote and signed a treaty that guaranteed that any human being from any country for any reason, could enter another country and be guaranteed an asylum hearing and safe passage.
It was so bad it permanently destroyed all the old concepts of society like truth, trust, honor, oblige, birthright, fealty, chivalry, bravery, sacrifice, defense of homeland and morals and values immutable fixed by God, and replaced it with any old bullshit some crazy egghead wanted to try out
It was so bad that a world government was formed to make sure it never happens again.
That's why it excites you, you see what was lost from the before times, but you can have no idea whatsoever of how bad it was to burn all tha to the ground
Good post
You forgot one aspect. OP assumes their side is the one that is gaining total victory. They fail to recognize that even a significant victory would render horrendous cost, much less marginal victory, stalemate, or any scale of being upon the losing side of such a conflict.
You assume that I assume? Only thing I assume is death and destruction. To be frank, I'd rather fall on a battlefield, than live to bear the trauma and live in the destruction after the war. To be ripped in pieces by an 30mm autocannon or blown apart by the arty. Mown down by a machine gun fire. Getting your lungs blown out by an thermobaric rocket. Suffocating in your own juices as your skin bubbles and peals away. Getting stabbed and shot in your foxhole and left to bleed out. Now that is a man's way to go. t. OP
Ah. that was the most important day of your life, but, for me it was Tuesday
You unironically should try cutting or seeing a dominatrix. Both would probably solve your problems.
der krieg is der stupid, it sounds nice and cool from a comfy armchair, especially because people always imagine themselves being the protagonist. The simple way to prove the youthful fallacy of "war bein fuckin awesome" (It is if you aren't involved or are bushwhacking the enemy) and "I wish I was in a war that'd be badass" (it isn't) is to imagine a genie going skedaddle skeedoodle you are now an Iraqi Republican guardsman in December 1990 and now all the moron can say is
>آه القرف!
Because yeah, it'd be fucking awesome to be an apache pilot or jet pilot or Abrams or Bradley gunner in Gulf War. Which is like saying "It'd be cool if I won the lotto and became a billionaire". No shit.
I'd blame the WW1 geriatric generation for propelling us into a nightmare we've yet to wake from but I'd include that to the entirety of WW1's "Boomers" (IE +30-70 year olds), because it's not like the 14-20 year olds in 1914 had much of a say democracy or otherwise. Vilest motherfuckers in human history whose YEAH KILL EM ALL jingoistic gayry has a near perfect direct causation to every fucking headache we've been dealing with since then. Israel, Jihadism, decolonialism, holocaust, white-guilt, communism, just every god damn problem goes back to a bunch of /gsg/ cocksuckers who thought a war in Europe would be a jolly ol' time when even Bismark recognized some stupid little yugoslavian shitshow wasn't worth the bones of a single Prussian grenadier.
>TFW 2/3 of my Prussian grandma's family tree consists of premature deaths from WW1 and WW2
It's genuinely harrowing to behold. Like every adult male is crippled or killed between 1914-1945. To top it off, their homeland gets deleted at the end of it all too
>just every god damn problem goes back to a bunch of /gsg/ cocksuckers who thought a war in Europe would be a jolly ol' time when even Bismark recognized some stupid little yugoslavian shitshow wasn't worth the bones of a single Prussian grenadier.
Yup. Somehow people just never fucking learn not to get involved in stupid wars about stupid causes in foreign countries that don't bloody concern them.Or for every person who realizes it's a bad idea, you get ten jingoistic chickenhawks raised on a steady diet of yellow journalism and propaganda calling them pussies.
Because you’re a neet incel who never reached self actualization.
Because fundamentally it appeals to Bataille's idea of the limit experience, but on a natioanlized scale. It's the exctasy of going beyond anything that is "human", beyond reason and thought and even reality and trauma to the point where only the lacanian Real exists. The experience itself, something that cannot be conveyed anymore. Somthing that stands singular in itself.
It's almost an erotic idea, the orgasm being one such, if the most tame imaginable, Limit Experience.
Whether it is the total destruction of the self or another, the madness of willingly inviting such a thing holds certain allure. Doubly so, on a huge nationalized scale.
Totalenkrieg was just a cope that Goebbels came up with to try to distract Germans from the fact that they just got their shit pushed in at Stalingrad.
It is cool to see what really matters, trimming away every piece of fat until you have the most streamlined and utilitarian designs imaginable
Because you lack real purpose and meaning in your life.
we go to war to feed military industrial machine and we are saved from economic collapse
It tends to feed the David vs. Goliath part of human mythos. The idea of an enemy so powerful that society must come together, do everything in its power to stop it, and ultimately win is a very appealing underdog story; but it should really stay in the same realm as shonen anime.