(08-25-2017, 06:39 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Put. Down. The. Savage. Nation.
I wrote that because The Savage believes ASD is a "bogus" affliction. Sad that a PhD would think that. You seem to really not want to "let" anyone have ASD and you want to go back to the way things were 50 years ago in this regard. Back then, only low functioning were Dx'ed and all others were crammed into buckets besides ASD. What the hell dog do you have in this hunt anyway?
Thank you. I have drifted along in horrible jobs that wasted my talents and bared my weaknesses, the latter relating to Asperger's syndrome. Considering all that went wrong with my life, it is a surprise that I did not become the angry Commie.
The problem wasn't that I was lazy, for I could work like a fiend. So I didn't like heavy physical work? Who does? People do it only for the money. It is often dangerous, and it slowly tears a body apart. Not being a drinker or smoker, and having grandparents who lived to 82, 82, 86, and 67 (the latter a diabetic with bad habits for a diabetic, like baking lots of pies and sampling them) I did not want a wrecked body. The problem wasn't dishonesty. If anything I was too bluntly honest. I did office politics badly. I talked about things that co-workers didn't give a damn about. Nightclubs? I thought that I needed a good night's sleep. I thought that the fault was that I wasn't a conformist enough until I found that all along I had been acting as if on stage to seem normal and let my slip-ups seem like eccentricity.
It was a nightmare. I threw away great potential for no obvious benefit to myself, my family, or society in general. I had little satisfaction on the job until I did substitute school teaching which hides some of my weaknesses and allows me to enforce some conformity (as in, this is a G-rated environment and not South Park).
I simply got horrible vocational advice from people who cared about me. I regret what I lost -- and what they lost.
I have a cousin who is a classic sociopath. He got a great job (accountant) as a sociopath, and what did he do? He embezzled the hospital he worked for! He made great pay before embezzling. He married a floozy (like attracts like) who spent so much that their home was a predictable stop for UPS and FedEx drivers. He borrowed money from relatives and declared bankruptcy. I can imagine what I would have done with such pay as an accountant. I'm frugal about status symbols and other wastes of money, but I would have seen much more of the world (which is all that I envy about the rich -- not their mansions, yachts, over-priced cars and jewelry, furs, and the like; I would rather have savings and investments, thank you!) . I would have ensured that my parents got to go to Europe and the Far East. I am sure that my father would have loved to have seen how South Korea developed from a country rivaling India in poverty to a country with living conditions typical of western Europe). I would have helped several relatives attend college. I would probably have a satisfying marital life instead of being a frustrated single. If I knew about the Asperger's my wife and I would have probably adopted.
To this insult from Kinser:
Quote:A better question should be what tribe would even want you.
Tribal societies are usually inefficient and backward. The defense of tribalism within a community is that that community is that it seems in constant risk of assimilation by people who like the culture but will not live it (I will not name names) or because that community is at risk from abuse, humiliation, or degradation. An extreme example of tribalism is by white nationalists afraid that white 'culture' (whatever that is) is under threat by assimilation of white people into 'non-white' cultures.
(Obviously there is no such thing as 'white culture'; Russians and Irish are very different in culture; you would never confuse Portuguese and Finnish culture, or Hungarian and Iranian culture. Kinser could probably tell me of some black fellow who loves J S Bach).
The threats to white separatists are obvious enough. It is not the street tough of the ghetto. The few interactions that such people have with white people are in either crime, the criminal justice system, or the penal system. No, it is in part Asian and Hispanic cultures that have much to offer people who have few cultural ties to anything. The more blatant menace to the preservation of the 'purity' of the white race is....
the Talented Tenth. That is black people who achieve something legitimate that attracts attention among non-blacks. They can attract white people with similar abilities and dreams to join them in shared cultural, academic, political, and economic activities. That often leads to more intimate activities such as family formation.
The white partner in such a situation is assimilated into the 'black' race. The children will be identified as black. White separatists can hardly think of anything scarier -- even thermonuclear warfare. Now that is tribalism!
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.