12-11-2016, 03:23 AM
Because of Obamacare I got diagnosed with Asperger's. It is a distressing diagnosis, but it is one that I could have made adjustments to even as a teenager. over forty years ago. I would have made vastly different choices in education and career choice and avoided much failure, grief and undeserved shame, and some family problems at the end of the lives of some loved ones. I would have had some real independence had I been able to make money suited for personal independence.
Except that I know that something is wrong with my life and it is not the economic system or political order*, a poor work ethic, or some faulty character, I might have gone over the edge and committed suicide. Nobody gets out of a progressive depression easily.
*Donald Trump is not yet President, and he will be the problem of every American whatever ethnicity, religion, social class, region, religion, sexual orientation, handicap, or status of citizenship. I still expect four dreary years of him or Pence, but if this is what it takes to make Americans do some needful reforms that make government that serves the People instead of serving The People, it will be worth even a loss of 20% of living standards in the meantime and watching ruthless elites live like medieval princes.
Except that I know that something is wrong with my life and it is not the economic system or political order*, a poor work ethic, or some faulty character, I might have gone over the edge and committed suicide. Nobody gets out of a progressive depression easily.
*Donald Trump is not yet President, and he will be the problem of every American whatever ethnicity, religion, social class, region, religion, sexual orientation, handicap, or status of citizenship. I still expect four dreary years of him or Pence, but if this is what it takes to make Americans do some needful reforms that make government that serves the People instead of serving The People, it will be worth even a loss of 20% of living standards in the meantime and watching ruthless elites live like medieval princes.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.