The Butterfly Effect
You know this term yes? Something small can have a big effect on the other side of the world when that action culminates into the fullness of its intention. Look it up if you don’t know.
Consider all of the terror, genocide, war, violence, and national destruction that has happened over the centuries because of one culture of nation violating another culture of a nation, especially when those values are sacred.
Although it has not yet been formally established as a religion, I am telling you now that video games and all forms of media are an aspect of the sacred for the USA. That is a result of Freedom, the protections we have to speech, press, and religion, and how important media is in maintaining a prosperous economy driven by capitalist interests. If people are not happy in their society, the ties that bind all things together in good will and fraternity fail. People do not want to work, they do not want to make money, they do not want to be productive, they do not want to do anything in society and just want to stay private. That is not good.
A civilization needs to have healthy public interactions between all citizens. Inequality is such a horrible thing because it prevents that from happening naturally and thus harms the entire society. You cannot control those things nor should you try because of the spontaneous good that occurs at… essentially random everywhere. You don’t know when you will sit down next to someone at the bar from another social group, say something, change their opinion, and in the long run improve an entire community of thousands of people because of those few polite words. The tangible effect of a toxic and poisoned society is the damage it does to the national economy, and I know how much you people love money and your economic interests. It is best for the economy and your money making if as many people as possible are as happy with their lives as possible. Is that too difficult for you to understand?
Video games, movies, books, music, and all forms of media are of the most importance to USA culture because all religions can express their highest forms of faith and worship with those things. If you put a drop of poison in the smallest toe, it still gets into the blood stream and poisons the entire body. Whether or not they are violating other people’s sacred beliefs or not, they are violating mine, and on purpose too. They have poisoned the entire national body through my person alone, at least. I think they probably are doing it to others as well though. Removing me isn’t going to remove the poison from the blood stream that has already affected all the other systems.
Just because a person thinks their actions interfering with my experience playing games are the smallest, most insignificant things in the world to them, they are the most important things to me that are being damaged, and it doesn’t matter if you understand why those things are important because they are legally protected as my consumer rights! You should know better than to do that to other people. Are you beginning to understand why I am stressing the danger of the situation and the threat that such criminal behavior is to everyone? A lot of lives are being put in danger because you don’t know what the consequences are, and they could be as bad as civil war or invasion by a foreign nation to liberate us.
The government is the one intentionally putting everyone’s lives in danger to protect themselves as individuals. That is the opposite of what their jobs were created for! They are supposed to be protecting us by putting their lives in danger, not the other way around! That is why I am telling you that it is not only okay to kill whoever is standing in the way of justice without needing an order, a command, or any justification than your own moral authority. That is something that demands deadly force to stop. If they were being lawful, orderly, and obedient to their duties as government officials, that would not be the case, but it is what it is, and the longer you wait before forcing them with the use of a deadly weapon is going to tax your conscience, and stain your soul with sin.
Whatever the hell the government is doing, it is not worth dirtying your soul, betraying your integrity, and denying your conscience. If you will not kill them, then throw your life away in such a disturbing, destabilizing, and chaos inducing manner of rebuke, outrage, and defiance. Cause a scene. Some of you maybe fantasize about… snapping. Reaching your limit and telling people what you think in a loud, insulting manner, overturning desks, and breaking things etc. This is the perfect time to do that. Let that out, get it off your chest. If you miss that opportunity, the world will be much better after the problem was dealt with by others, and you likely won’t be able to enjoy such… wise foolishness.
There is a special occasion in the Navy that happens when the equator is crossed for the first time on a cruise. Without getting into details, every ship does it differently, all sailors contribute what they can to make it the most… special, and all in all it is one of the best times at sea, even if you found yourself doing some of the most disgusting things you never would have imagined yourself doing before hand. Sometimes there are fundraisers and raffles that occur as well for the crew morale fund, and one of those raffles was a chance to “pie” a person of your choice.
It was announced ship wide so everyone knows who is getting pied and who is doing the pie-ing. On a submarine there are a lot of subtle social intricacies in the community that you wouldn’t know otherwise, because despite working in different divisions, everyone stands watch together, and everyone interacts with each other enough to know each person at least a little bit. Everyone stands out in different ways on a personal level, and all are the same when it comes to the mission. Yes! We all are on the same side, we want to win, and “Get the get!” as our navigator used to say. Different roles, yes, but we are all there for different reasons, and one of those is the same for everyone. I don’t know how to put it into words at the moment.
In any case, the division I was in had a notorious LPO who was a hard-ass, especially after having just got back from training new recruits at boot camp, which is on a totally different level from the rest of the Navy. We also had a notoriously temperamental chief whom I would give the adjective: mercurial. Additionally, we had some of the most goofy people I have ever worked with in my experience in that division as junior sailors, myself included. On a submarine, when most everyone is comfortable with the most awkward things, there are still some people who make things weird and do so on purpose too.
Given the high stress nature of our jobs requiring the highest level of integrity and discipline, the consequences of small mistakes can be extreme. Long story short, our supervisors occasionally gave us a hard verbal beating for one reason or another, some more than others for frequent mistakes, and at the same time, were still personable, helpful, and dutiful as leaders in their own way and never crossed the line in my opinion. Both good in different ways, but far from perfect too. So… I bought a pie for my cherished LPO to show him how much we cared as the junior sailors of the division.
That is the kind of wise foolishness I am talking about. I occasionally feel guilty about how hard I pied him, because it was harder than I expected, but I did my best to hold back to not be hurtful while still making a good firm impact. No gentle whipped cream caresses with a pie crust that runs off the face like the others did and then kissed it off. I am talking about a full halo of splat that was return on his investment with interest.
I think I said something like, “this is from all of us in Radio,” before the pie said the final word. Not the best one liner, but I wasn’t my own star in my own action movie of real life at the time, so I’ll have to work on that for next time. I did honestly give my best effort to not be hurtful, but a bit forceful with it, but like I said, I think it caught him and the others by surprise. It was almost like everybody was in on that pie. I still feel bad that maybe I went a little too hard... but he was fine when I checked and we all had fun, so it’s all good. In any case, there were no hard feelings afterward, and all went on like normal when everything was cleaned up.
Sometimes, you need to express something like that to whoever your superiors are in the chain of command or employment or with each other on the same level for both of your sakes because none of us are perfect, and we make mistakes. The way those mistakes can affect us personally is usually less important than the moment at hand as it pertains to everyone, so they get buried and forgotten. Just make sure to do it at the appropriate time for an appropriate reason and don’t leave anything out that you’ll just end up carrying like a needless burden later. He went on to become chief later and I wonder about the mystical rites of chief initiation because the improvement in his leadership was significant after.
It’s better to have a reaction that is not truly hurtful even if you are being forceful with what you want to express, than to wait until it is too late when your lid blows off with uncontainable rage resulting in bloodshed, violence, and regret. Why there are no such leaders in the USA polity that know how to step in and do what must be done with a firm hand from above or below, is a mystery to me, because I know well enough that the government has a lot of aspects of self-maintenance to prevent corruption. They shouldn’t be afraid of punishment, and should be owning up to their mistakes, willing to accept correction, and stay focused on the mission. Whatever the hell is happening in there now is like a squabbling den of crazy people trying to decide who gets to use the handicapped stall for number two as their private office.
They have forgotten themselves, they have forgotten who they are responsible to, what they are responsible for, and why it is important. Those matters are so vital to the heart and soul of the USA’s government, that all of them should know the answers to those questions without thinking about it. Someone who does understand will feel compelled to forcefully intervene to end the corruption of those individual parasites leeching off our government in the heart of the system. They should be willing to tear open that veil of government secrecy so the infected blood and diseased pus within erupts out like a geyser of evil so old and predictable the sight of it evokes the memory of faith being justified over and over again through the course of our shared history.
Let it be done, and wear your safety glasses too, because you do not want that getting in your eyes.