Dodging Bullets
The business of America is business. I’ve always been impressed with how Americans can “monetize” (find a way to convert something into money) pretty much anything. Like Facebook: it doesn’t charge you to be a member; and yet they make money. The same with Google’s searches. But ok, those are companies. Funded by venture capitalists who would demand a return on investment. So it’s sort of expected that they find a way to make money, directly or indirectly, hundreds of dollars at every transaction (like Apple) or a few cents at a time (like Google). But the above wouldn’t explain the US army’s repeated tendency to commercialize things done or built for military purposes. Like the Internet. And the Hummer. It can only be explained by the America’s single minded devotion to making money. Like take this latest tech to move from the US army to civilian use: finding the direction of gunfire. Its use in war is self-explanatory. And in a country where almost every lunatic h...