Hamster Wheel

If military training had been structured the way some churches, religious programs, or pseudo biblical studies are, and trained people by repeating the same process over and over, we would have come out knowing only one thing.
We would have been running on a flattened hamster wheel….. Climbing a never ending ladder for at the end of the steps….. You start the same thing again?…….
Do you dress up and get married every week, say your vows again??
Do you eat the same meals weekly and repeat?…. ad infinitum

Instead, we were prepared through a range of training experiences because variety matters, even in War. If we had only been trained in one narrow pattern, many would not have been ready for real world situations, growth, success, and we definitely would have filled more body bags.


Learning itself is valuable, I have three university degrees, and I genuinely enjoy it.
Yet, when learning becomes overly repetitive without growth, it can shift from development into control, indoctrination, sheep led astray, because repetition isn’t change and familiarity creates laziness.


A program may be structured.
Participation may be expected.
Questions may be limited to the topic at hand.
Yet structure alone does not make something healthy or effective.
Real training equips people to handle different situations. Repetition without expansion conditions people to follow the same pattern, rather than to think, adapt, and respond.


Previous people tried to control, train, and indoctrinate…. Didn’t go to well
Nuremberg, Dachau,… . Hitler, Pharoah, Sultan Mehmed II, Kim Jong—Un,,,,,,, Gengis Khan…..