Mainstream Weeklyby Navneet Sharma and Khem Raj Sharma
’The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry’ —William H. Mauldin
War is an extreme aggression and destruction leading to mortality. It is only a masculine response to economic, political, geographical, religious and cultural conflicts. No war is fought for the sake of war but for peace or for the control over the ability to disturb peace. War is an economic enterprise. It benefits an ideology to be in perpetual state of war. The arms industry and profit mongering survive on the spate of fear and insecurity among people. The political compulsions of the governments at helm also contribute to the idea that war is at door or we are at war. In an era, when mass media rules our lives; and decision or choice making ability 24X7 being in tizzy favours commerce and commercialization.
In a war carpe diem (seize the day) is the aim. This is to support quick and random (and heroic/adventurous!) decision to sweep all enemies in a day. Similarly, in creating a war-like situation, veer-ras is eulogised to glorify the edifice of courage, bravery and nationalism, ethnicity or a particular religion. The usage of this emotion in mass media or popular culture is what that leads us to warnography