Did you know there is a site called www.war-toys.com?
War Toys is "taking war to a whole new scale." They can meet all your war toy needs from gladiators to sailors, from Nazis to Al Qaeda, from machine guns to motorcycles.
Kids can have the entire battle in their hands now, but they play with it so flippantly.
I think this is because war does not affect us the way it did older generations. Without the news, I wouldn't even notice we were in a war. I know this isn't true of everyone, perhaps I'm the exception, not the rule. But I do not know anyone who is currently fighting overseas in the War on Terrorism. But I do not that not every father and brother is being conscripted, our factories aren't being transformed to produce artillery, our tires aren't being donated to the government, and our food isn't be rationed.
Maybe if this was happening, people would do more than slap on a bumper sticker.
People's reactions to war would make Malcom Gladwell roll his eyes. People have strong emotions towards war, but generally, they do only the least they can do. If we were living in a war that required sacrifice from the citizens, I think war activism would lean more toward Gladwellian than Biz Stonian.
For older generations, war was a lifestyle. For us, it's a marketable trade.
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