> What bullied kid really thinks "it's not those kids doing this, it's the system"?
Hello there. Me.
I was an alienated, disaffected youth. Do you know what a Bagger 288 is? I used to day dream about driving one of those through my city, ripping up entire neighborhoods. When society systematically fails you it's easy to feel that "Everyone deserves to suffer because everyone is to blame." (A line from Aeon Flux that haunted me for years. IIRC the character who says it has some sort of emotional breakthrough and winds up donating his arm to a little armless kid or something. Weird show.)
But you don't have to be a genius to figure out that kids mostly don't come prepackaged with severe mental and emotional problems.
Back in school, the hyperactive kid who rubbed his crotch on my head? It turns out he's a crack baby. That's why he acts that way. Blame the CIA!?
(> Webb conducted a year-long investigation during which he discovered that a San Francisco-based drug ring, which had ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group called the FDN, sold cocaine to a dealer in South Central Los Angeles. The millions of dollars made from those sales were later used to fund a secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. In short, Webb accused the CIA of being complicit in getting thousands of poor African-Americans addicted to crack in order to fund rebels in Central America.
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> What bullied kid really thinks "it's not those kids doing this, it's the system"?
Hello there. Me.
I was an alienated, disaffected youth. Do you know what a Bagger 288 is? I used to day dream about driving one of those through my city, ripping up entire neighborhoods. When society systematically fails you it's easy to feel that "Everyone deserves to suffer because everyone is to blame." (A line from Aeon Flux that haunted me for years. IIRC the character who says it has some sort of emotional breakthrough and winds up donating his arm to a little armless kid or something. Weird show.)
But you don't have to be a genius to figure out that kids mostly don't come prepackaged with severe mental and emotional problems.
Back in school, the hyperactive kid who rubbed his crotch on my head? It turns out he's a crack baby. That's why he acts that way. Blame the CIA!?
(> Webb conducted a year-long investigation during which he discovered that a San Francisco-based drug ring, which had ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group called the FDN, sold cocaine to a dealer in South Central Los Angeles. The millions of dollars made from those sales were later used to fund a secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. In short, Webb accused the CIA of being complicit in getting thousands of poor African-Americans addicted to crack in order to fund rebels in Central America.
https://time.com/3482909/this-is-the-real-story-behind-kill-... )
The system itself is the problem, and there's no effective attack on the system.
How do you fight Moloch? ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ )