Termyn8or
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Interesting, but not quite in tune with human nature. What I am, which some disapprove of, happened from the earliest moment of my life and I realize that. I know my Mother and knew my Father, and had a chance to analyse them a bit. I know what kind of people she is and he was. Thus I can tell you a few things about them.
Money or not they were never into trinkets and bullshit like that. The only bling they ever wore were their wedding rings, and the occasional watch or necklace, and when so, those were usually gifts and worn to please the donor. If they needed a watch and had fifty grand in the bank they would buy a fifty buck watch as long as it wasn't really shitty looking and kept good time.
I have also talked to them both on many occasions about the early years. Things that I actually do not remember. Between all this I can draw a couple of conclusions. When I cried they did not automatically stick a bottle in my mouth nor did they try to immerse me into some visual experience via toys or pretty things. What they did was to pay attention.
Today kids are bombarded with all sorts of toys and shit, and actually those toys of today are designed to entice the Parents to buy. Time and time again what I see is that the kid would rather play with the box than the toy. This starts very early in life and is the basis for all future knowledge. Humans cannot advance until they understand the importance of this time in life.
Even with all the advantage I had it still took me half a lifetime to be able to consider myself an adult. You are here because you are different ? Bull shit. I am fifty times more different than anyone here. And like Kid Rock said, you will never meet a motherfucker quite like me. I have been separate from the masses for all my life, since as long as I can remember, and now I really appreciate that. This was not always so, not all times were good. But those times shaped my psyche to the point where I have an extremely good degree of control. I can see differences in different people and not only accept them but try to understand them, and I have had some succes in that area. Some say that makes me a bigot or a racist, and if I fit that definition so be it.
I was taught not to give a flying fuck of what others think of me. This alleviated almost all peer pressure. Not all, but most of it. I learned not to be afraid to be alone. One time I was in jail, in a dorm with probably forty guys, most of whom were laughing at this one guy, an older Black Man because he didn't know how to read. I stood alone and yelled "This fucking shit ain't funny" and a bunch of them shut the fuck up and a few came around and said things like "You know, you're right". I never went with trends or fashion, in fact I set it. Well not entirely, in Lakewood OH in the 1970s they were all wearing CPO shirts. Guess who was the first one. At first people were not impressed and even critical, but I kept wearing it and eventually everyone in the school who was cool had one. This bolstered my faith in myself, at least in that context.
When others were young they were off to toy stores, while I was off to bookstores. At five years old I was looking for books that might interest me, and the bigger the better. Some I had trouble carrying, but I got it done - I really wanted it. And fiction was not on my Christmas list, I wanted science, of just about any kind. While I wasn't all that interested in blue footed boobies or anteaters, science and technology were fascinating to me. Then the psychology textbook came up. Holy shit, this thing was really something else, and from the time it took me to read a college level freshman grade textbook on it at about eight years old, the whole world became a study of sorts.
Not that I was without problems. I got thrown in the DH, I hung with the worng crowd. Later I did drugs and all that. I stole, and alot worse. But later I somehow discovered guilt. Go ahead and fuck people over, in time you'll find that nothing they can do to you is worse than what you WILL eventually do to yourself. I believe that an approach of that sort can result in the truest and purest form of morality around, something that law nor even religion can hope to achieve.
Now if you give each and every kid in this world a background like that, including the good as well as the bad, I think we could have just about a utopia in about twenty years. But that's not what I see. The kid wants to look around the room and watch PEOPLE, but Mommy has a big fluffy who knows what the fuck right in front of his face. Get out the fucking way !
Maybe that what it is. For the most part I chose my own reading material, I had few toys, but they weren't so bad. The little Johnnie electonics kit with which I built a radio transmitter was pretty cool. The record player fascinated me, how the fuck do they do this ? And that is like from a five year old, me. If I was that way then, it came from before. I think there is too much distraction, let the kid go find what he wants. Get rid of the lead based paint and let him go teeth on the dog's balls for all I care. Let him direct himself. He can learn the shit he doesn't give a fuck about later, the point is that he is learning.
Try that, and watch the change in the world.
If I were to develop a superweapon that makes me invincable and therefore the dictator of the world, everyone would have more freedom than anyone does today. The law would be very simple. Burn a fattie and listen to some old hippie music and it'll come to you what that law might be.
Until that hapens, Men will provoke violence based on another's words, seek unreasonable revenge and make war. Also will be thieving conniving and cunning con artists who are not competent enough to get the time of day from me. We will have, well exactly what we have. And the old adage about sticks and stone may break my bones but words will never hurt me will be but a distant and remote old saying that holds no weight.
You get what you pay for.
T
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