You've ong ago bought in to the whole apocalyptic social-collapse thing and, like all sorts of doomsday prophets, are determined, when civilization refuses to fulfill your predictions and happily goes on strolling about eating ice cream, to pull your own personal society down around your ears on the flimsiest of pretexts in your own private Götterdämmerung and make for your Führerbunker in the country. Which is sad because you are nice, and hot, and people like you (and you are hot).
I'll be honest. I would have loved to stop around the northwest and go to dinner or to an ice cream stand and stroll happily about with you down the beach or whatever it is that you do down there for fun. You are an interesting person, and generally quite intelligent. And perhaps that is why it is a little surprising to see the authoritarian streak. Where I used to believe that it was just trolling- I now believe it to be authentic.
War has always required the dehumanization of your enemy. That was nothing new...
Much like we have turned our war on terror and target of our propaganda from the Taliban to "domestic terrorists," so too are we turning the dehumanization of our enemies from those external to those who will not follow our demands at home.
I'll save you a couple of months of time and just suggest that you treat me as the filthy, disgusting, disease ridden
person piece of garbage that I am. As you said. I am just creating this myself. The politicians making the laws banning me from employment and the individuals cheering it on share no responsibility. It is me who after a life of working (and damn hard) wants to be unemployed and unable to go to the gym or head out for a beer. That is the world that I created for myself after working really hard to be social, hold a job, and work against my natural (Aspergers) tendencies to eschew social contact, friendship and human connections.
I promise that despite my efforts, most people will not miss me (as you mistakenly believe.) And to be honest, I don't know that I will miss most people. I nearly bought a piece of land a decade ago before I bought this house. I was serious enough that I bought an excavator (still in storage) to dig a foundation, and started reading up on building a bale house. Wouldn't it be funny if I finally had the epiphany that I should do what I want and not what is expected of me? That I should just quit society and move out to build a house and raise garlic and root vegetables; Haskap berries and sour cherries? I mean why fight the fact that the majority of society would rather that I not be in it?
And so that is about it. You should probably throw me off the roof and not bother with veiled disdain. Let the "hate flow through you." I promise you will feel better...
