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He's 100% right.
Today in modern society we talk about war and policy as abstract things. This policy caused 10,000 poor people to lose food stamps, that policy caused 20,000 people to lose their homes, there was a war and 30,000 innocent people died. It's data points on a graph, that we debate academically. We say this makes us 'civilized', that we give 'dignity' to those who suffered and died.
It's crap. The people who got blown up are dead, they don't give a fuck anymore.
We SHOULD be showing the 12 year old who got half his leg blown off screaming as medics carry his dead parents out of a bombed building. We SHOULD be showing blood, gore, dead bodies. These are the result of the policies we enact, we are hypocritical liars to shield ourselves from the effects of what we do.
Because the fact is the majority of Western people live in a bubble of ignorance. We can say academically that we know violence exists, but many of us live our lives sometimes without ever encountering it, so it's not real.
The result of that is a lot of bullshit that people think is right. Like if a kid fights back against a bully he gets suspended due to 'zero tolerance' for violence (nevermind that he reported the bully 15 times and the teacher did nothing). Or the huge number of people who think that prohibiting gun ownership will work any better than prohibiting drug ownership.