About Mythos

Another worthy read from Brad Smith

Yes, I have suggested Mr. Smith start scribbling for Substack. Until then, I’m happy to share the space with someone with original thoughts and unique observations. Judging from the Comments and emails, many here have appreciated his thoughts.

BW

Mythos; a traditional or recurrent narrative theme or plot structure;

a set of beliefs or assumptions about something.

In the America I grew up in, we believed in "woman and children first". This was one of our core Mythos. What I mean by this is that it was the men's job to go down with the ship. If need be, we would risk our lives for the women and children and die for them, if it was their life or ours.

What effect will forcing women to apply for the draft have on this very important Mythos? And yes, they are important, these ingrained beliefs are who we are as a Nation. A nation is more than just lines drawn on a map and taxes paid to crooks, it's a group of people who more or less believe in the same ideas of right and wrong.

Do you know the old term, Don't throw the Baby out with the Bathwater? Well?? Are you fighting for America if everything America stands for is lost in the process? In fact, isn't that the very thing Osama Bin Laden hoped to bring about? I know it's what he claimed was his plan. He wanted to help us destroy ourselves, and we seem to be doing a fine job of it too.

We toss away our right of privacy, we can't fly without being groped, we have stuck our future generations with the bill, and now we are going to have men hide behind Girls who are too young to legally drink a beer. She should be forced to risk her life before she's even had a chance to become a mother, never to hold a baby in her arms even once?

Don't believe for one second that there will be front lines in the next war. Drones have come so far that there will be no front lines; anyone who's anywhere at all and involved will be a target; the Ukraine war has proven that. If it's bad enough to draft women, it will mean that they will in fact be killed in extremely large numbers.

What kind of nation have we become?

Ps. Please don't be an "anti-libertarian". Don't get to thinking that two wrongs make a right. You won't help more people escape injustice by having an injustice apply equally to everyone. Put another way, Equally wrong is still wrong, don't make it twice as bad by dragging twice as many people into it, by arguing that if it applies to men, that it should also apply to women. This goes for more than just the draft issue; it goes for taxes and every other issue where you might be tempted to even the score or make something equal by taking something away from everyone. The goal should always be to remove injustice from the system and preserve liberty, rather than creating equality simply for the sake of equality.

Brad Smith