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by runawaybottle 2031 days ago
So, I’ll give away a little bit of my teenage naivety (pretty old now relative to my 20s, still a child to some here) in that lately I’ve been influenced by some serious reading on the Holocaust and Nazi-Soviet dystopian ideas. In a sense, we really didn’t see the insanity until it fulfilled it’s natural conclusion (a disgusting simile to the final solution). Such a pattern is more common place amongst addicts, who basically need to bottom out until they get it.

The sadness is that I know it must play out before we can come to the table and solve it.

In other words, there’s no shortcuts, and we have to see it through to the end to prove it, no inductive step. No theory in this.