09-24-2017, 07:15 AM
(09-23-2017, 11:50 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-23-2017, 11:37 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:Quote:Quote:It's a matter of perception, and I can think of two attributes of you to which you admit.
Perception matters, you've chosen to perceive yourself as a victim and thus you become one. You're not prey, you're a predator, but instead of using strength or intellect or even cunning to achieve your ends you use pathetic-ness. You are a vampire and your blood is the altruism of others. Indeed I'd say that if you were a Rick and Morty character you'd be Jerry. I recommend watching season 3 episode 5.
http://www.toonova.net/rick-and-morty-se...-episode-5
I'd rather not be a victim. My parents mishandled me because I didn't create any problems. The K-12 educational system saw me as a model student, and again I didn't create any problems. I was the sort to run away from fights, and I played by the rules. Be a conformist, but don't be perfect at it? I was a satisfying compromise.
But had I known I would have done many things differently.
What do you think your parents should have done differently? What would you have done differently?
If you were a model student, did you go to college? What degree did you get?
University of California, Berkeley. Economics.
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.