Comment Re:I think I'm going to be next (Score 1) 1228
Don't do it.
Like suicide, it isn't worth it. There's a little blip of horror and people flailing around trying to find some explanation that makes them feel good and not responsible, and that's it. No permanent change, except for the dead person, and the killer (if they're not the same).
The BEST solution is to get together with your friends and work for politico-economic changes. The current US values are proto-fascist: conformity and mindlessness are what the rulers want. And if you won't conform, and won't stop thinking, then they want you in jail or dead. Don't give them the satisfaction. Yank the rug out from under them instead. If you're 18, VOTE! and vote against the right-wingers, the fascists. If you're not 18 yet, get together and campaign against them. Work for people who want a fair deal for everyone.
If you want tips on how to do it, get and read a book called _Rules for Radicals_, by the late Saul Alinsky. He was a major hellraiser, and had some very very good rug-yanking moves.
Don't do what the fascists want you to do. Work to dump them out on their butts, instead.
Margaret
(a nerdy great-grandmother who knows things
don't have to be this bad, and who remembers
a time when things were at least a little better)
Like suicide, it isn't worth it. There's a little blip of horror and people flailing around trying to find some explanation that makes them feel good and not responsible, and that's it. No permanent change, except for the dead person, and the killer (if they're not the same).
The BEST solution is to get together with your friends and work for politico-economic changes. The current US values are proto-fascist: conformity and mindlessness are what the rulers want. And if you won't conform, and won't stop thinking, then they want you in jail or dead. Don't give them the satisfaction. Yank the rug out from under them instead. If you're 18, VOTE! and vote against the right-wingers, the fascists. If you're not 18 yet, get together and campaign against them. Work for people who want a fair deal for everyone.
If you want tips on how to do it, get and read a book called _Rules for Radicals_, by the late Saul Alinsky. He was a major hellraiser, and had some very very good rug-yanking moves.
Don't do what the fascists want you to do. Work to dump them out on their butts, instead.
Margaret
(a nerdy great-grandmother who knows things
don't have to be this bad, and who remembers
a time when things were at least a little better)
