04-30-2019, 08:54 AM
(04-29-2019, 11:50 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(04-29-2019, 10:48 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: It is wise under all but the most pathological systems to have the humility to recognize that the powers-to-be do not see you as a menace.
Will you be significant enough to be a victim of persecution? That will depend upon what your Millennial Generation teaches the next Idealist generation.
Sometimes systems even see children as a menace. How do you explain the children getting forcibly medicated because they're hyperactive or different? This is a war against their brains because the system deems these children menaces that need to be forced into normality. People don't need to be significant to be a victim of persecution. In fact, the most insignificant are the biggest victims of the world.
Destructive as a lobotomy is, were it necessary for taking away the dangerous characteristics of a sociopath, I would be for it. Better that than the 'lobotomy' that Ted Bundy got -- electric charges that destroyed his considerable, if twisted, brain. But let us also consider his innocent victims.
Hyperactivity? I wonder how many people in the entertainment business are hyperactive. Is hyperactivity that bad -- or is it simply inconvenient for such bureaucratic institutions as K-12 education?
With autism we need to teach people how to get away with it. Sticking people into low-paying jobs that they hate and ensuring that they can do nothing else in our pay-to-play society is itself cruelty.
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.