Indeed, and as a combat veteran I can assure you I've never met any of our particular vocation that seeks sympathy or understanding...that's normally a sentiment we're waylaid with after the fact and from people who have no real understanding or experience of our lives as service personnel.
We're not immune nor inhuman, the experiences have a deep and lasting effect and the effects don't usually surface until in some cases, years after leaving the service. Talking from experience, not only mine but from many others... there's also no treatment. The flashbacks are very real and debilitating...it's not like having bad dreams as some folk imagine.
Just try understanding why you find yourself cowering in a corner of your own kitchen bathed in sweat, shivering and not really understanding where you are or who the woman is who's hugging you.
I'm always embarrassed by the recent trend of people thanking veterans for their service...to be truthful, I'd give back all the thanks, the tacky tin and ribbons and the meaningful handshakes for a decent nights sleep.
Worked EMS/Fire/Fed& State Disaster Response for years, and went through my fair share of waking up in the middle of the night until a few years after leaving the industry. It started late into my career and wasn’t caused by the incidents themselves, but the knowledge some of my coworkers and colleagues were terrible at their jobs, lazy, corrupt, and some outright criminal yet due to our society run by criminals, they were getting away with negligent homicide. That’s what screwed me up for a time; the knowledge we could have saved more but the lazy (usually pro union) crowd didn’t want to work and when they did they did more harm than good. In fact a lot of times we just push them aside and told him to go sit in a corner while we did the actual work because we knew it was safer for them and letting them touch a patient, something they were all too happy to do however were always the first to tell stories about how they are all hero’s, almost always embellishing the truth to make themselves sound better and/or extending the roll they really had in the situation.
The problem with violent video games comes from the fact that people at young ages who haven’t had a chance to mentally grow up, are playing them, despite the 18+ warning. Kids as young as 6-8 years old are playing COD style games! When I was growing up video games were 8 bit and graphics were stick figures, so the graphic violence was not realistic, unlike today’s hyper realistic games. Furthermore I don’t ever remember playing a violent game which basically forced you (to continue in the play) having to walk through a mall and shoot innocent people, like one of the recent COD games (I no longer play, for other reasons, mind you). Those of us who are older here violent video games are causing people to go crazy however we don’t understand this because when we were growing up the games were different. I do think there’s a correlation to desensitization of violence in children and violent games, but DON’T think the solution is to ban violent games, but to STOP BEING LAZY PARENTS and letting your under 18 CHILDREN play violent video games. The larger problem however is social networking, which the criminal alt-left companies will regulate conservative voices, but let neo-liberal lunatics say whatever they want, including encouraging people to commit murder, suicide, theft, glorification of violence (how many street fight, street racing away from cops, calls for violence, etc, videos are online?).
The thing is that’s what everyone wants at the top because now were so busy fighting each other, so we’re not fighting them. It’s a shell game meant to keep people on edge, high alert, intentionally giving up our rights, demanding more laws and surveillance, all so the ones at the top can push for complete civil control. It’s psychological warfare against the masses and had any if you actually READ Edward Snowden’s leaks you would see the un-intelligence communities directly target civilians NOT engaged in terrorist acts, to get into your heads and try and force you to give up your rights. There are entire leaked government PowerPoint presentations on “how to manipulate the (non criminal) general public into giving up control”.
Please don’t be sheep. We DO have a problem, but problem is not caused by the things they are saying, in the manor they are saying it, and the solution is not what they propose. It’s all a lie, and it’s been done before. A certain US int agency was (extremely well documented, including congressional testimony) importing/selling more narcotics into Miami back in the 80s then the actual drug cartels, which lead to huge acts of violence, and a civil demand for what has become the industrial prison complex (I.e. where states and private corporations make money off of incarcerating people). This disproportionately affected minorities, and yet today these same people are the ones falling right back into the trap where they are being Manipulated in the same way, expecting a different outcome. The problem is education, that people have the Internet at their fingertips and only go to the same five garbage websites, instead of researching, learning, and taking the time to read the leaks these criminals don’t want us to read. We live in a society of laziness, hyper bowl, self-centeredness, virtue signaling, knee-jerk reactions, mental illness, arrogance, greed, arrogance, and worst of all ignorance. These are the underlying problems that are destroying today’s society, not video games.
Since 2013 I’ve been trying to do product consulting, started a corporation (inc, c-Corp) but have found none of these companies want to pay consultants to do anything other than fire employees (the cowards won’t do it themselves) and come up with new ways to break their own products to further the failed (economic and environmental disaster) policy of planned obsolescence. I’ve had some of the largest corporations in the world (IBM, Google are two of them) steal my product ideas and then try and silence me; I’ve upset some pretty powerful people. In the end the conclusion I have come to is these companies don’t want to fix anything as they are making too many profits from what’s broken. Ironically, only usually fluid short term profits; (why so many companies fail) they could be making plenty of long term stable profits, while building and maintaining consumer trust and loyalty, something we don’t have anymore in any industry. The executives however now only think about their own profit, not the overall health of the company; it’s the get in, make a boat load, and get out mentally. The ones at the top are the problem, and they know it too. This is why they need psychological warfare against the masses; to maintain control of a world that’s falling apart into ruin because of their incompetence, greed, and self serving nature which lacks long term vision for a future where anyone but them succeed. Unfortunately they fail to recognize, society rises and falls together, that’s the nature of how our social construct works, whether they like it or not.
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