WAR AS MORNING ENTERTAINMENT AND POSSIBLY THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR III! BUT LET’S BE CLEAR, EVEN IF WAR IS PACKAGED AS ENTERTAINMENT BY THE 24 HOUR NEWS STATIONS, WAR IS NOT ENTERTAINMENT; IT IS HELL!

This morning as I left Planet Fitness, I saw this in the sky and thought Hilton Head was being attacked by a ballistic missal from Iran:

It turns out, though, that it was a Space-X launch from Cape Canaveral. How disappointing! 

 I exercise Monday through Friday at a gym getting there before 5 AM. Of course there are televisions galore to watch as one exercises. I spend 45 minutes on the elliptical machine. As with the first Gulf War, when I was exposed to war in real time, live and on television, I felt I was watching a war show in order to be entertained. 

I thought to myself, self, this is really sick. And thus it has been ever since that first Gulf war. War live and in person on your television set thanks to modern technology and 24 hour news stations. How entertaining! 

Of course it is insidiously evil! 

Prior to typing this, I was able to watch live on Fox an incoming ballistic missal attack on Tel Aviv on Fox and Friends. It was really exciting and really entertaining to see how the Israeli’s missal defense works and to hear all those air-raid sirens going off and all those great explosions in real time! What a thrill.

Did I say that war is hell and insidiously evil? 
But it is packaged as entertainment. What about that??????????