The stakes between these two generations weren't the same at all. WWII was a real crisis where world freedom was actually at stake.
Nowadays, the wars are all a bunch of made up conflicts to help countries and their businesses keep control over world resources and exploit people around the world for money.
nowadays...
That started in the 60s lol its been over 60 years of capitalism wars
I won't argue with you there.
It is the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
made up conflicts
artificial scarcity, basically
Well, IQ scores rise over time. Smarter people realize how dumb it is to directly kill, or pay tons for the killing of, dirt poor civilians on the other side of the world. Especially for profits most of them will never, ever see.
Edit: I shouldn't make it sound as if the soldiers of WW2 were dumb though. As another comment correctly pointed out, there's a lot of difference between WW2 and at least some modern wars.
I'm pretty sure even the inventors of IQ test say it shouldn't be used to measure the general intelligence. The only thing IQ test measures well is how good you are at solving IQ tests.
Also
IQ scores have been shown to be associated with such factors as nutrition, parental socioeconomic status, morbidity and mortality, parental social status, and perinatal environment.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
Not to mention that you can get anyone to do pretty much anything if you present them only the right information in the right context.
The quote you pulled detracts from your argument. It boils down to smarter people make smarter choices.
From your source, the section- 'Validity as a measure of intelligence' provides useful criticism of the iq test but concludes with:
Despite these objections, clinical psychologists generally regard IQ scores as having sufficient statistical validity for many clinical purposes.
Any Helldivers in here?
Yeah. Why isn't that kid working? We need all the help we can get for the war cause. If we don't get enough Element 710 those bugs will kill more babies on this remote planet. You don't want that do you?
Wasn't there a movie where LL Cool J was the bad army guy who was using kids video games as remote controls for real war weapons? I want to say I saw it in the late 90's but it's possible my flakey memory is making this all up.
The main actor I remembered was Robin Williams.
Ender's Game?
I'm a military man, I like a military meal. I don't want my peas invading my mashed potatoes.
Beware of the insidious corruption of all things while living a capitalist way of life. Anarchy T shirts for sale at hot topic.
Counter culture captured and then turned into a profit driven machine.
Don't forget to like and subscribe to my leftist YouTube channel comrade! Your donations via Visa credit card will change the world! /$
The revolution will not be hosted on Amazon Web Services.
All reasonable points, however it's worth it to donate to creatives and free software projects. Part of the enshittification of the web is due to creatives being dependant on ad revenue.
Gamers won't die for oil they'll die for big tittied anime girls and the supposed consultant firms trying to kill them
There are plenty of open source softwares that will allow you to make better (more legible) graphics than whatever was used to produce this piece.
Pixel anarchist ≠ punk.
Wow ... call me surprised that it is all white people in the comic.
Yeah, it's drawn in grayscale. What's your point?
