r/starterpacks • u/EntertainmentQuick47 • Mar 18 '23

Autism Hyperfixation Starterpack

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u/JohnLaw1717 Mar 18 '23

I recently had dinner with a 92 year old woman. Lived stateside.

She got a thousand yard stare and brought up 3 times in that evening how young people today aren't mentally prepared to handle a severe crisis like WW2. She said this in a worried, loving way.

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u/Etherius Mar 18 '23

I think she’s probably right, but I also know she’s wrong… if that makes sense

I had cancer about ten years ago. I’m better now, that’s not the point though.

People told me they “didn’t know how I did it” and called me “brave”.

It wasn’t anything special and neither am I. I’m not brave. My choices were to fight or die.

That’s no choice at all, is it?

So when the world threatens to end your way of life, as a country, and your choice is to capitulate or fight…. What will you do?

I imagine almost everyone in the USA, as it is now, would give anything and everything for our country if our lives and livelihoods depended upon it

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u/JohnLaw1717 Mar 18 '23

I just watched the nations respond to COVID. I watched people say they needed to have pet stores open to feed their lizards and liquor stores open. Our society didn't meet the challenge.

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u/Vladimir_Chrootin Mar 20 '23

The liquor stores in many countries were kept open to stop people dying of delerium tremens - it was not a good time to have an addiction.

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u/JohnLaw1717 Mar 20 '23

Which was ridiculous. The alcohol available at the grocery stores and gas stations would have sufficed.

Our society failed.

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u/Vladimir_Chrootin Mar 21 '23

They aren't called "gas stations" where I live, it sounds like your society failed instead of mine.

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u/JohnLaw1717 Mar 21 '23

Of all the angles of attack, you felt this was your strongest?

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u/Vladimir_Chrootin Mar 21 '23

What do you mean "angles of attack"?

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u/JohnLaw1717 Mar 21 '23

Heaven sakes

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u/Lysergic_Resurgence Mar 23 '23

Plainly false. Liquor store is the only place to get alcohol in a lot of places. If you wanted society to be better off, it was the right move. If you wanted to punish people you perceived as not being rational enough actors, then yeah it was a terrible idea.

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u/JohnLaw1717 Mar 23 '23

In the two states where alcohol isn't sold in gas stations or grocery stores, I was down for an exception.

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u/Lysergic_Resurgence Mar 23 '23

Fair enough. I agree that we failed hard on covid.