Furiosa and D-Day

Another thing that's interesting about Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the normalising of war.

In the pre-ample to the 40-day Wasteland War the narrator sets it in the context of what looks like a continual history of war. But actually if you think about it the vast majority of humans have never fought and it's only a few who do this crazy thing.

Now it seems the leaders of these crazy people are the ones who write a lot (I'm hoping to turn tables on that) but it also seems that the winners of wars promote their works more than others.

Churchill is the epitome of this. He wrote a 6-volume book which he called "The Second World War" and promoted it obsessively. It remains the "definitive" version of events and even today historians shy away from challenging it.

Yet it is pure fantasy and has nothing to do with the real war. For instance 3 million Britons served in the armed forces which is 7.5% of the population. That means 92.5% did not fight. If you threw a dart during WW2 you would more than likely hit someone just getting on with life and that is the history of the world.

Now Churchill and other leaders say "never have so many owed so much to so few" but we owe nothing. Fighters chose to do whatever they do, no one tells them to do this. and they never ask if other people want them to do it. Certainly the enemy does not want them to fight, and they do not want the enemy to fight to really even soldiers do not want to fight.

To underline that no one owes soldiers anything, the leaders who set them at war have to explicitly make up that we own them (because in fact we don't).

So the vast majority of humanity have never had anything to with war, and we can happily ignore the fighters and their insane leaders. Particularly pertinent on #DDay80 where the Britons was co-opted into a war that was not even our own and was designed by a foreign power namely US for its own imperial aggrandisement.