Our motor pool consisted of about a dozen M113’s in various states of operation, all diesel, 3 M48’s 2 of which were on the DL and a rickety M42 to pull us out trouble, which was often. All of it was surplus from Vietnam, "A “gift” from Uncle Sam" My master Sgt. would sarcastically say… Often. Might have been from your stock.That was a well timed escape, Jim don’t look so good, I’d hate to be the first one he comes across.Looks like Wally has seen a few go round’ the bend in his travels. Deep psychological trauma like Jim’s are often irrevocable, the usual outcome is death.How easily we place a value on the life of another being. If we look at the past we can see prima facie examples of the lack of regard for the rights of others to exist. Little has changed in the last 5000 years if you look at the world at large. the only thing we have gotten better at is killing. Whatever excuse we make to assert our right to self preservation, may involve depriving someone else of theirs.Well it’s true that there’s no saving Jim, there is a jail, but asylums, limited medical facilities, and the odds of one of the lizard folk being a shrink are pretty slim. Out of compassion we lock up the most violent of our citizens in treatment facilities and prisons. To keep those of us who can behave ourselves safe, is the primary purpose, keeping them safe is the other.Treatment is attempted, with some results, or maybe no progress. To many, still lucid enough and smart it is a game to be played. There was a study recently comparing the traits of psychopaths to CEO’s, Politicians, Bankers and other driven types who are successful.Let us just say the similarities were frightening 8 out of 10 traits were exactly the same.It would explain a lot of things as to why our culture worships greed and celebrity. The truth is we vote, accept, worship, and adore, as well as loathe the high functioning successful psychopaths who are running everything.You know it must be bad when even the Pope is going, hold on, somethings not right, we need a rational discourse here on the division of wealth.We trust these psychos to keep us safe, to grow our investments, drop bombs on people who might be our enemies, further our political agendas, ad naseum…I don’t see it changing anytime soon, we still need people able to access their animal state easily.I would hope Jim would snap out of his, before it is too late.
Our motor pool consisted of about a dozen M113’s in various states of operation, all diesel, 3 M48’s 2 of which were on the DL and a rickety M42 to pull us out trouble, which was often. All of it was surplus from Vietnam, "A “gift” from Uncle Sam" My master Sgt. would sarcastically say… Often. Might have been from your stock.That was a well timed escape, Jim don’t look so good, I’d hate to be the first one he comes across.Looks like Wally has seen a few go round’ the bend in his travels. Deep psychological trauma like Jim’s are often irrevocable, the usual outcome is death.How easily we place a value on the life of another being. If we look at the past we can see prima facie examples of the lack of regard for the rights of others to exist. Little has changed in the last 5000 years if you look at the world at large. the only thing we have gotten better at is killing. Whatever excuse we make to assert our right to self preservation, may involve depriving someone else of theirs.Well it’s true that there’s no saving Jim, there is a jail, but asylums, limited medical facilities, and the odds of one of the lizard folk being a shrink are pretty slim. Out of compassion we lock up the most violent of our citizens in treatment facilities and prisons. To keep those of us who can behave ourselves safe, is the primary purpose, keeping them safe is the other.Treatment is attempted, with some results, or maybe no progress. To many, still lucid enough and smart it is a game to be played. There was a study recently comparing the traits of psychopaths to CEO’s, Politicians, Bankers and other driven types who are successful.Let us just say the similarities were frightening 8 out of 10 traits were exactly the same.It would explain a lot of things as to why our culture worships greed and celebrity. The truth is we vote, accept, worship, and adore, as well as loathe the high functioning successful psychopaths who are running everything.You know it must be bad when even the Pope is going, hold on, somethings not right, we need a rational discourse here on the division of wealth.We trust these psychos to keep us safe, to grow our investments, drop bombs on people who might be our enemies, further our political agendas, ad naseum…I don’t see it changing anytime soon, we still need people able to access their animal state easily.I would hope Jim would snap out of his, before it is too late.