Response to Morgan's Post.

Hubris: It's easy to make mistakes when other people pay for them. This is the "motivational" slogan found in a photo that is accompanied by many soldier's caskets. At first glance, the photo can be found as solum and pretty un-motivational, but I find it's message to be quite the contrary. When looking at this photo, I see inspiration for a change in our way of handling something as homicidal as war. When troops are deployed to a given base, they are no longer seen as individual humans, but as thousands of machines battling for our country. They are suddenly viewed as a big batch of toy soldiers; if we lose a few hundred, or a thousand, it's fine! because there is still a full bucket of more toy soldiers waiting to go to battle.

Hubris is defined as "excessive pride of arrogance;" This thematic word found in this photo most definitely refers to our current administration and their war. It has become apparent through the 5 years at war in Iraq, that the war wasn't what it was meant to be, but that doesn't stop our Commander in Chief. George W. Bush has stood by this greatly disapproved war through and through, letting his arrogant reasoning for battle kill thousands of American soldiers. 

I find this photo very relevant because it makes you think. Usually when you see a poster like this, it gives you irrelevant self-motivation, but this photo provides so much more. It's message is self-motivation, that's for sure, but the self-motivation one finds could make a difference for many.