(non)-Violence: I gave her the gun!

I've always wondered how a group of people who can be so nonviolent when it comes to culture (opposed to violent television.. movies.. video games.. etc.)  can also be so very pro War when it comes to real life and real politics...

(Zen... can there be "real politics?").  

I'm not talking about self defense or even those who struggle between weighing the balance of the "necessary" war with the devestation and destruction that war actually causes... Im talking about those who treat war like it's the Suberbowl..

..Us against them...

..sitting down with popcorn.. in front of the TV watching bombs drop (on other human beings) through night vision.. on HD..

Im talking about making a War to market with it's own catch phrases (Shock and Awe)...

In my van.. There was a soulful distortion coming through the speakers... it was "Hey Joe..." (where you going with that gun in your hand?... Jimi Hendrix.. #198 on the list)... 

When Jimi sang "Hey Joe".. (cover... Not his original song).. it was to an anti-war crowd.. But "Hey Joe's" not an anti-war song... At least not the kind of War between nations... 

Rather... It's about a war between lovers.... a dude going down to "shoot" his "old lady" cause he caught her.. "messin round with another man"... 

disturbing. 

But to an anti war crowd.. in the mind.. it's jumbled and re-imagined..

a dude.. a GI (named Joe).. is going down (to war) to shoot an (ideologically) unfaithful lover.. 

Same words... different setting.. 
..suggesting a similar but different meaning.. (Zen)

Shocking.  

But poignant for it's time.   

Because that's how Art works...