Question

In Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, anthropologist Catherine Lutz describes how militarization includes not only the production of military objects, but also the glorification of war and those who make war. Identify whether or not these are dangers of unchecked militarization noted by Lutz.
a.Danger of Unchecked Militarization:
b.Unchecked militarization can shape cultural institutions to its own ends.
c.Unchecked militarization dehumanizes the act of killing.
d.Unchecked militarization can create a hegemonic way of thinking.
e.Not a Danger of Unchecked Militarization:
f.Unchecked militarization amplifies the scientifically proven human tendency toward violence.

Answer 1

Answer:

Dangers: B, C, and D, not a danger: F

Explanation:

Dangers of unchecked militarization includes:

• Unchecked militarization can create a hegemonic way of thinking.  
• Unchecked militarization can shape cultural institutions to its own ends.  
• Unchecked militarization dehumanizes the act of killing.

Not a danger of unchecked militarization ;

• Unchecked militarization amplifies the scientifically proven human tendency toward violence.

Answer 2

Answer: Catherine Lutz's defines militarization as the shaping of national histories in ways that glorify and legitimate military action and that a major goal of militarization is to make people accept and love war, and see it as normal.

Explanation: Danger of Unchecked Militarization:

I. Unchecked militarization can shape cultural institutions to its own ends.

II. Unchecked militarization dehumanizes the act of killing.

III. Unchecked militarization can create a hegemonic way of thinking.

The three dangers above as observed by Lutz support her writings about militarization shaping our reality as it has been incorporated into almost all facets of life from entertainment to fashion to toys. All these directly and indirectly influence and shape our societies.

Not a Danger of Unchecked Militarization:

I. Unchecked militarization amplifies the scientifically proven human tendency toward violence.