As citizens of a country that follows the US into every war it's been in since 1945, we have a right to an opinion.

US wars, and Australian involvement in them, directly affected my timeline.

An opinion might be that we ought to be asking our own leaders WTF we are doing. Another opinion might be 'hey this is geopolitics, been this way since we were abandoned by the Brits in '45' We have a lot of opinions. Maybe I have a lot of opinions.

Preachy Artists irritate me. The idea of getting preachy makes me think I've lost the point I want to make. I'm also pretty sure, from my neuroscience reading, that it plain doesn't work.

True Kung Fu is accepting that everyone learns, nobody teaches. A further learning is that not everybody learns, or sees, or chooses to.

Those who have taken a life in combat have had their mental state altered in ordered to suppress the natural inclination of most Humans not to kill. The science suggests the majority of Humans don't actually want to kill anyone.

A lady from the Department of Veterans Affairs said to me once, 'we trained them to be terrifying and then we sent them home to their families'.

 This is what bugs me.

Sometimes there is a price to know what you know.

Once you've paid that price there is no undoing it.

I hear easy talk of war, I hear Chicken Hawks who have never raised a weapon, who have never suffered the outcomes of victory. No one walks away from this unscathed. The impact of what we do lasts for generations.

To our cousins in the US we ask you to walk lightly.

To those who call for the ring of spear on shield simply to hear the noise of battle I say - I will hear your words when you stand in the front rank, awaiting the charge. 

From behind a desk, in front of a camera, spinning fantasies of War, you have no right to speak, because you know nothing.

You have paid nothing to know nothing.

Now say what you know. Say nothing.