Listen dude, I'm having my lunch right now because I have some important afternoon meetings and I've been up since midnight yesterday. The one thing that has been on my mind aside from the project I'm in charge of is how fucking stupid our electorate has become. It may only be my opinion but you have to admit that comparing the bombing of Pearl Harbor to the terrorists that killed the Israelites is a bridge too far.
I never served but my father did in Vietnam. My mother said it fucked him up for the rest of his life and I believe her. It
fucked me up too for a long time but I finally got away from that toxic environment and found myself 30 years after the fact.
The beatings I took from him didn't make me stronger, it made feel weak inside and only provided me ideas to do more shit to piss him off. It didn't matter to him that I was a fairly good athlete or a state scholar, all that mattered to him was whatever he decided that day.
I'll never forget the letters I hid from him that accepted me on full rides to West Point and Annapolis. When he found out about them he was liviid. The thing was, I never applied, he was the one who sent the applications in my name. He beat the shit out of me that night, I stood there, took it all and told him to go fuck himself as I packed my things up and walked out the door. I lost a lot of things that night but most of all, I lost my father because he thought I should go to war like he did to prove myself.
I've been able to patch things up with my mom and sister but it was a long time and a lot of hoops to jump through because the trust was't there at first and they hated that motherfucker more than I did..
I hope you can gather a little analogy from my story. I was oppressed for my entire young life but when I broke free, I turned out to what I consider to be a decent human. I have my moments and battle addiction but I try to keep everything on the bright side these days rather than stare into the abyss, making excuses for fuckups that I had nothing to do with.
Your projections into the past or even real time conflicts are what they are.. I'm sure nobody here condones that type of violence but here you are trying to justify what you know is the truth by blaming everyone else and saying "look, see over here what they did and it's just fine" It's not fine my dude not by any stretch. If I see an abused child these days, I don't say "fuck it, I got better so him or her will also get better."
You have to experience it from both sides and I'm afraid that's a big piece of the puzzle you are missing from your cozy little brooklyn bungalow.
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