RE: Active shooter in NZ
March 15, 2019 at 3:36 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2019 at 3:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 15, 2019 at 3:31 pm)Brian37 Wrote: They may see themselves as a hero, but what I am saying is that is just them most of the time ignoring or covering up their own failures. White nationalists and those who join Isis, are not the same guys who landed on the beaches of Normandy.I think that you'd be surprised. The notion that any of these people are so very much unlike "the rest of us" is wrong, and it helps to perpetuate the misery.
Quote:I can say about myself when I was a teen and a young adult, I got angry at the world. And the truth is even after I got rid of my rage, I still never had anything but minimum wage jobs my entire life. There would have been a time if the wrong person, had sold me on a "movement" I also could have seen myself as being in "combat". So today, while I didn't go up the economic ladder, and while I never had any long term relationship with women, I know now that I don't have to look myself as a failure just because I didn't meet other's metrics, nor do I feel the need to belong to something now.One thing that's common to alot of these movements is that they target younger males outside of meaningful relationships, for sure.
I feel lucky I didn't get suckered into the wrong group. I also feel lucky that I know now that being single isn't the worst thing in the world. I also feel lucky that losing a job also isn't the worst thing in the world.
But I do know how desperate I was back then in wanting to fit in and belong.
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