Residents unironically accept war’s commercialization rather than critique it

Evidence

In keeping with this uncritical and unironic acceptance of the commercialization of the war, some party-goers wore T-shirts showing a map of the Middle East, with a plane zooming away from a bomb it had dropped, spelling ”It’s Miller Time!” in smoke in the sky. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 873

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Spectators’ patriotic enthusiasm for war machinery collapses quickly into bored waiting — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 343; Communities have greeted the outbreak of war with festive, childlike curiosity rather than dread — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 377

Broader Connections

• Spectators’ patriotic enthusiasm for war machinery collapses quickly into bored waiting #contradicts (0.85) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 343
• Communities have greeted the outbreak of war with festive, childlike curiosity rather than dread #contradicts (0.70) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 377