A War on Suffering
This is kind of an ironic concept, since war in and of itself usually causes suffering. So declaring a war on suffering is almost as ironic and paradoxical as declaring a war on war. However, we live in America, and no one pays attention to any social or cultural ill unless you declare war on it. A relic of our society's militant history and status as a superpower. Hell, most of our idioms, metaphors, and figures of speech have either something to do with sports, sex, or war. Prove me wrong. "War on drugs." "War on poverty." "War on crime." "War on terror." "War on Covid." "War on cancer." We even have the balls to declare war on abstract concepts, like terror, and we spend thousands of lives and billions upon billions of dollars fighting people acting on behalf of ideologies and ideas based on hate and fear and conquest only to constantly be met with failure and have those ideas recycle themselves in new hosts and foll