Alright, I’ll admit that I’m a friendly fire incident waiting to happen. I’ll also admit that Kenny is physically stronger than me. I’ll even admit that Kenny would make a better soldier.
I personally don’t think that Kenny needed a strategy to beat me in this competition. It’s precisely Kenny’s win-at-all-cost ethos, combined with his all-consuming hobby of fragging the masses in video games, that makes him a better soldier…but that’s only compared to me. Kenny would last less than a nanosecond in the actual military. Team play, discipline and conformity are not Kenny’s strong suits. Actually, upon reflection, I could see Kenny as an Ernie Bilko-like figure, bilking his fellow soldiers and the military out of every dollar he could scam.
I went into this competition thinking that honor and a willingness to obey orders were important military values. But what I found was a system where sociopaths and psychopaths are rewarded. This is not to say that I in any way am discrediting the military. The sad fact is that we live a dangerous world, and the military is a necessary reality. It’s not surprising the military culture probably needs to be intrinsically psychopathic, illogical and unfair to function in the insanity of war -- for reference read Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
But what do I know? I use hand sanitizer, Shea butter and enjoy watching The Two Coreys. One thing for sure…if the military was made up of idiots like Kenny and I, we’d all be goose-stepping or living on communes or trying to kill Salman Rushdie.
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-Spenny