The Old Lie

Everyone has heard about the glory of war and hero's poetry, stories and songs. This is a universal image: Armies entering the forefront from perhaps every evil, with strong, noble, brave soldiers, helping collapsed comrades and despicable enemies, flying planes to the necessary troops They threatened to save innocent civilians to their agents. If a soldier dies, it will be brave and beautiful, while the "Stars and Stripes" will play in the background.

War is tenacious, bloodshed and savage. O'Brien believes that if people feel excited and encouraged at the end of the story of war they will be victims of ancient lies, with all kindness, glory, and stunning things of war. . The stories of war have to make the readers feel fear, jealousy, hatred and anxiety, as they truly reflect actual experience. The soldiers actively participate in the commercialization of their experiences, and although others need to say, they make them understand. Even if you start talking about a war experiences of a person, to have something consumed by the audience and taken over to explain it. O'Brien wrote:

Your behavior knows that the slave owner suffers from a century-old lie that he said when abolishing slavery. Ida · B · Wells' anti-smuggle booklet written in 1890 reveals the lie that a black man raped a white woman while her husband is fighting in the war, but you still believe it I will. Do you know why you absolutely need the Black Lives Matter campaign? You insist that an absurd image of a white woman will be perpetrated An embarrassing girl must be saved from atrocities of black men. You have created a world of imaginary monsters that have assigned their bodies. The reality people must endure the dangerous assumptions you make with the pain you need without having to think about it again.