Something just occurred to me that might explain what's wrong with so many people -- and I'm not saying this to make fun of them or call them names, either. I think it's true
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I've got PTSD myself, and it has kept me from having any sort of real, beneficial social life and anything else worth a damn in life. From what I know of the condition, and what I've seen of people around me, it looks as if one hell of a lot of other people have their own version of it. Some drink, others take drugs, others are addicted to sex, others have other means of escaping from what someone I once knew called "the snakes in the brain." One such dodge is addiction to power -- and you can bet a lot of politicians and despots have it. It excuses nothing, but it sure as hell can explain a lot. Even those doing the diagnosing of it are in the throes of it. Some have it more intensely than others; some don't seem to be affected much by it, but you never know. Each has his or her own version of it, so that its manifest expressions can take countless forms. But it's ruining us all. Which is why we need to open that final/ultimate/infinite frontier of space: Earth has become a killing-bottle, and much more of this and it will have done its job completely.
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