Brave New World

*Disclaimer*
This post is meant to be satiric. Please don't take me for a total psycho, but take what positive elements you can find to heart if it helps you

I grew up in an age where I was so persecuted for my 'Abnormalities' that I have been almost injured beyond my capacity to go on living, and decided never to have children.
My sister DID.
Therefore, my nephew is autistic, like his father and uncle and grandfather and great-grandfather and Pete knows how many before him.

It has been a long battle, but the tides are turning.
Where, in our days, if you weren't a jock, you were an object of ridicule, the 'Geek' who could be pushed around, now the geek of today will be the Elon Musk, the Bill Gates of tomorrow.
Revel in your jockness now, Normo, for those geeks will one day own the company you work for...

When my nephew was bullied for being autistic as a small child, I told him: 'Next time that bully tries that, tell him -Take a hike, Flat Scan' (Bonus points to Anyone who gets this)
It will confuse the hell out of him...

This is our time...
This is our age...

Mutant liberation has begun.

Johei wrote:*Disclaimer*
This post is meant to be satiric. Please don't take me for a total psycho, but take what positive elements you can find to heart if it helps you

I grew up in an age where I was so persecuted for my 'Abnormalities' that I have been almost injured beyond my capacity to go on living, and decided never to have children.
My sister DID.
Therefore, my nephew is autistic, like his father and uncle and grandfather and great-grandfather and Pete knows how many before him.

It has been a long battle, but the tides are turning.
Where, in our days, if you weren't a jock, you were an object of ridicule, the 'Geek' who could be pushed around, now the geek of today will be the Elon Musk, the Bill Gates of tomorrow.
Revel in your jockness now, Normo, for those geeks will one day own the company you work for...

When my nephew was bullied for being autistic as a small child, I told him: 'Next time that bully tries that, tell him -Take a hike, Flat Scan' (Bonus points to Anyone who gets this)
It will confuse the hell out of him...

This is our time...
This is our age...

Mutant liberation has begun.

Good going. I've given up my attempts at instigating a societal uprising of the mentally ill. People are generally nonplussed whenever I bring it up. Hopefully I'm right in predicting that technology is sowing a whole new generation of mentally ###$ people. All those two year olds placated by their moms with a tablet or smartphone will be tomorrow's foot soldiers in the war against the nons.

It's troubling to me, however, that you cite like Elon Musk or Bill Gates as being people to aspire to. I'd much prefer another Einstein or Picasso instead of those two greedy scumbags.

Oblivion wrote:

Johei wrote:

It's troubling to me, however, that you cite like Elon Musk or Bill Gates as being people to aspire to. I'd much prefer another Einstein or Picasso instead of those two greedy scumbags.

Fair point, but my point was that while brilliant minds like Einstein and Picasso never really had much power or control, men like Musk or Gates do.
People like us used to be exploited, Musk and Gates exploit...
Not the best outcome when the abused become the abuser...

To quote our Lord Magneto: 'The Humans have played their hand, now we play ours. Their society rejects us, we form our own...'
We can only hope it levels out at some stage.

The avenging dawn now rises to make the wicked tremble! And liberty returns, the scourge of tyrants!

Oblivion wrote:

I sold him doughnuts once. He likes the jelly filled kind.