\n\t\t\t\tLooking for Thermals 2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nI appreciated this comment from James, where he nicely analyses his teenage ease with war toys.<\/strong><\/p>\n‘I used to make WWII models in my teens, and play WWII wargames with them. There’s an interesting tension between the analogue with real war and all the wrongs and suffering involved, and the benign, soft engagement with it through models and wargames. We males seem to be able to make that separation easily enough – most of us – live with that dichotomy.<\/em><\/p>\nAnyway, the experience didn’t make me pro-war in any way. I used to run round with toy guns as a child, too, but I don’t own a real gun and have never actually fired one. There is that fascination and admiration of the technology of war rubbing up against the actual purpose of the technology. Everyone thinks Spitfires are cool, and quite beautiful, but they were killing machines. Likewise, the tank on the beach looks really cute – a sort-of Thomas the Tank Engine of the Tank world. However, if a real version of one were shooting at you, you probably wouldn’t think that.’<\/em><\/p>\nJames<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tera Nullius aka Made From Local and Imported Ingredients. 2018 Image Mike O’Kane, location shot by Clare Martin. All images Copyright Mike O’Kane The casualties buried under the rubble of bombed and shelled apartment buildings we are told by militarists are part of the ‘collateral damage’ needed to attain a ‘greater good’… I visited a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":302,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7Kq8a-59","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions\/1824"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hispeak.co.nz\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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