My Awesome Blog Of Nonproductivity

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

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"We've all got to be fighting that fight every day."

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Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

The Anne Shirley Opening dropped and Naoko Yamada has delivered yet another masterpiece.

Love everything about it, be it the song or the animation itself. It captures her personality so well, as well as the nature of the show. Just the way they captured her body language is perfect.

So it doesn’t register that high stress leads to weird behavior, because it’s not highlighted as weird, it’s highlighted as “the truth” in the most bullshit manipulative way I’ve ever seen.

And this type of narrative is very, very useful for Calvinist branches of Christianity, Puritanism, evangelism, baptism, etc. because they believe in predestination, (whether they know that or not) and therefore have metrics of “this person does X and is a Good Person, that person does Y, and are a Bad Person, and these things are fundamentally unchangable because that is Gods Will” which means that even if you were acting “good”, if you ever so much as do one thing “bad”, it’s an indication that you were lying about being good the whole time, because that’s what Bad People do, and since you did a Bad Thing (or even had a Bad Thought) it’s proof you are Bad, because God would not have made you to act that way if you were not.

Predestination is a weird, paradoxical concept that simultaneously posits that humans do and do not have free will, as you can probably tell. But that is why that “the worst of you is always the real you” narrative is SO prevalent in the US especially.

And I know this because while the concept does appear in other countries and cultures, it’s more of a “huh, guess you never know a guy” and less of a pearl clutching hysterical reaction of “oh no! They were bad people all along! Everyone lynch them!” You see in the US.

And it has consequences, the least of which is the inability to understand that stress does weird things to people and that they are genuinely not themselves when under the influence of stress, alcohol, drugs, or mental health disasters.

It’s not as bad as it used to be in regard to the latter, but for some reason we don’t tend to think of stress as causing those disasters in the first place.