There's something fundamentally repugnant about a life groomed for leadership. There's all that bullshit about having a higher responsibility and self-development, and there's that dialectic involved about leaders and followers and how it's nicely and cleverly demarcated for everyone in the military like it's the best system in the world. Plus, hearing "no one wants to be a lowly clerk" and "the life of men is hard" repeatedly during grating sessions of propaganda leaves one with a very bad taste in one's mouth. Also, success in the army is in no way indicative of success in other areas; to subscribe to that belief is to conflate military life with the rest of your life, which is, frankly, quite terrifying. The opposite is also true. I believe that disillusionment is often the first sign of a structure being deeply flawed.
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