-I-. . well, the me that existed two years ago . . agrees with you.
The me I am now, well, my beloved was the gentlest woman I’ve known, and the world hurt her with it’s madness, life with her was like Vincent and The Doctor, except without the monster, I figure she took care of that before we met.
Now that she’s no longer with us, well, she changed me a lot when I was with her, and I made an effort to learn all those lessons she taught me. When I saw Osama Bin Laden die I said ‘Yeah! Good riddance!’, and she said ‘They always seem to die with their families’.
These horrible, broken people we’re talking about. . . they’re broken by the world around them more than anything else. We should wish them the best, just not in situations where they have power and authority over others. George Bush seems to like art, and perhaps in a different world some of these people could be folding proteins or . . .well, anything else.
Their greatest crime is that they’re more adaptable than we are, and given all the insane pushes society gives us pretty much right out of kindergarten, and how horrible some parents are (no testing required!). . . I don’t think I can blame them anymore.
That’s why my preferred approach is an end-around, combine Valve, Mondragon, and the Venus Project, let anybody who doesn’t want to be a dick to other people join, turn ‘employment’ into ‘peaceful, safe citizenship with lots of distractions and toys’. The corporation is such a powerful construct, and it’s not attached to a chunk of dirt, it’s DESIGNED by accident to be a democracy of choice. As Rebecca said, ‘Just because that’s why they made it doesn’t mean that’s what it’s for’.
I don’t care if we don’t convert Hannity or Obama, we get the entire third world, most of the second, and pretty much all of the children. 50 years later we’re gone and if we’re clever and un-brainwash our innocent, then they’re making much better decisions and we’ve given them the reset button they need.
Nothing else is going to work, you can’t win by fighting this sort of inertia, you have to exploit the most powerful construct we have, use every tool at our disposal, and take our lives back by NOT fighting. And the best way to avoid resistance among the way is to aggressively humanize the opposition.
I know, sounds a bit crazy, but this is what my skillset is designed for, I just didn’t realize that a broken, gentle woman would turn me into this sort of person. . . I thought I was nice before, I never hurt anybody and took care of everyone who needed it. Now I know that’s not enough.
