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The longer I live, the more it seems that no extreme behavior, "good" or "bad", is possible without a preceding crushing trauma. It's the supercompensators that

The longer I live, the more it seems that no extreme behavior, "good" or "bad", is possible without a preceding crushing trauma. It's the supercompensators that will get us to Mars, folks.

TheFattestNinja 4y ago
Sometimes you have to Suffer a little in your youth To motivate yourself To succeed in later life Do you think if Bill Gates Got laid in high school Do you think there? d be a Microsoft? Of course not You got to spend a long time Stuffed in your own locker With your underwear Wedged up your ass before you start thinkin' ? I? m going to take of the world With computers! You'll see, I? ll show them? -underwear goes inside the pants by lazyboy
paganel 4y ago
I personally think the over-emphasis on (in the majority of cases individual) trauma is just an easy way out for society as a whole to intrinsically "forget" about its implicit "tasks", such as taking care of its constituent members. It's easier to instil in someone the feeling of "you're depressed because you have been abused as a child, and if you don't remember the abuse itself it doesn't mean it isn't there, otherwise you wouldn't have been depressed", than to solve real societal issues that are more likely causes for said depression, as I've heard almost no-one say "we'll cure mass depression by making housing more affordable or by providing free child-care".
- pessimizer 4y ago
  > "we'll cure mass depression by making housing more affordable or by providing free child-care". We don't have time for that, we need to hunt down potential abusers and yell "shame on you" at them in public, and get other people to yell "shame on you" at them. If we broke up the banks tomorrow, would that end racism?
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
  And as a child of abuse myself, I hate these attitudes. The deed is done. You can't un-pregnant that woman, nor can you un-abuse that child. Declaring that the abuse shouldn't have happened in the first place does fuck-all for the child who has been abused.
- kirsebaer 4y ago
  Lots of people have a high standard of living but still suffer from childhood abuse and neglect.
npteljes 4y ago
I have a similar idea. And therefore I no longer crave technological advancement, despite it being my number one source of inspiration for all my life.
leaflets2 4y ago
What are some/one examples of "bad" and "preceding crushing trauma" that you have in mind, if I can ask?

The longer I live, the more it seems that no extreme behavior, "good" or "bad", is possible without a preceding crushing trauma. It's the supercompensators that will get us to Mars, folks.

TheFattestNinja 4y ago

Sometimes you have to Suffer a little in your youth To motivate yourself To succeed in later life Do you think if Bill Gates Got laid in high school Do you think there? d be a Microsoft? Of course not You got to spend a long time Stuffed in your own locker With your underwear Wedged up your ass before you start thinkin' ? I? m going to take of the world With computers! You'll see, I? ll show them? -underwear goes inside the pants by lazyboy

paganel 4y ago

I personally think the over-emphasis on (in the majority of cases individual) trauma is just an easy way out for society as a whole to intrinsically "forget" about its implicit "tasks", such as taking care of its constituent members. It's easier to instil in someone the feeling of "you're depressed because you have been abused as a child, and if you don't remember the abuse itself it doesn't mean it isn't there, otherwise you wouldn't have been depressed", than to solve real societal issues that are more likely causes for said depression, as I've heard almost no-one say "we'll cure mass depression by making housing more affordable or by providing free child-care".

pessimizer 4y ago
> "we'll cure mass depression by making housing more affordable or by providing free child-care". We don't have time for that, we need to hunt down potential abusers and yell "shame on you" at them in public, and get other people to yell "shame on you" at them. If we broke up the banks tomorrow, would that end racism?
P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
And as a child of abuse myself, I hate these attitudes. The deed is done. You can't un-pregnant that woman, nor can you un-abuse that child. Declaring that the abuse shouldn't have happened in the first place does fuck-all for the child who has been abused.
kirsebaer 4y ago
Lots of people have a high standard of living but still suffer from childhood abuse and neglect.

npteljes 4y ago

I have a similar idea. And therefore I no longer crave technological advancement, despite it being my number one source of inspiration for all my life.

leaflets2 4y ago

What are some/one examples of "bad" and "preceding crushing trauma" that you have in mind, if I can ask?