{"id":94694,"date":"2025-10-19T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=94694"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:11:31","slug":"forever-war-becoming-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/19\/forever-war-becoming-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Forever War<\/em>: Becoming the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mR0fQx_9UMQ?si=Zg5b4lOczfP1P8ye\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Mar 2024<\/p>\n<p><em>The Forever War<\/em> is a great piece of post-Vietnam social critique, not least in its depiction of a society that deserves to lose the war that its chosen to fight. Here I talk about the story through that lens, meandering toward a point in the usual Feral Historian manner. <\/p>\n<p>Also I wanted to get this one out because I&#8217;m going to make some <em>Forever War<\/em> comparisons in an upcoming video.  <\/p>\n<p>Most of the B-Roll is from the <em>Forever War<\/em> comic adaptation, both the original black and white version and the later color release. Also threw in some clips from <em>Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars<\/em> just to mix up the visuals a bit because there&#8217;s already too much of me sitting on a rock. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n00:53 The Draft<br \/>\n03:25 It&#8217;s so Army &#8230;<br \/>\n06:54 No Civilization<br \/>\n09:35 War&#8217;s Over. My Bad<br \/>\n13:14 Parting Thoughts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 8 Mar 2024 The Forever War is a great piece of post-Vietnam social critique, not least in its depiction of a society that deserves to lose the war that its chosen to fight. Here I talk about the story through that lens, meandering toward a point in the usual Feral Historian manner. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,13],"tags":[86,1593,85,585],"class_list":["post-94694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-sf","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oDk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98594,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94694\/revisions\/98594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}