‘VR War; what is it good for?’

‘VR War; what is it good for?’

 

Older men declare war; it is our youth that must fight and die.

It is easy dying for your country... The hard part is killing for it.

 

 

This Christmas, many children will want the latest vivid VR war games.

VR ‘Virtual Reality’…

As if this will give any semblance of what war and killing truly are.

 

Wars have been fought since the beginning of time.

To die is to die, it’s the same every time.

The only thing that changes is the method whereby

We come to our end, the way that we die.

 

Now a button pressed remotely, wherever it is pressed

Can cause death and destruction at the user’s behest.

The game console and headset place ‘you’ at the scene

But imbues nothing of the carnage and death so obscene

 

Detached and desensitised to the realities of war

I can’t help but wonder if it’s there ‘Raison d'être.’

 

Paul. Xmas 2020