It's hard to let go of those things that bring good memories and it even more difficult to see when we may be blindly guided by "good intentions" only for the sake of our own nostalgia circle jerk...
Scrolling through my emails and I see a Steam alert for the Gold Box edition of the SSI AD&D games Forgotten Realms based.
And how I cut my teeth on some of those, never had the patient nor opportunity to finish most. Fuck, what was at first a spark became a raging fire. My flavor of audhd... To thrive in a structured environment.. but also not want to be told what to do.. fuck that last job I had. Anywho.. thinking on how I would love to play again... But I just don't have the time.. I'd get sucked in... Though I do want to make a series of modules.. from bizarro to fantastical... One piece.. journey to the west... Odysseus.. other myths and legends hero stories retold...
Now I'm wondering if there are resources to look up on social customs by period sort of cliff notes.. how humanity has "evolved" and analysis... Corresponding examples globally by time period.
But good thing for titles... I'm thinking about this illusory world we live in and why it's fucking bizzaro bonkers...
Overcoming this things that anchor us to a past, preventing us from moving forward. You are the only one capable of executing change, and it takes time... Time.. TIME... And effort.. EFFORT.. your physical, mental, and whole hearted effort towards implementing a change plan that works for yourself. Conversely I do believe that this world is in a determinist state, that we are one giant programs... Brains in a vat. Go Google that phrase.. then watch the Matrix.. then go read up on Descartes.. then more philosophy.. start at the beginning.. where do I start.. always at the beginning. There is no easy path, and you will fall and stumble like a drunken baby trying to walk... In case you don't know.. babys already walk terribly... A drunk baby would be worse. Tell em to Uber next time.
Overcoming a fixed idea in ones mind, to change their point of view takes time and effort. Though seeing what I have read and watched and heard and listened and my own personal experience in the realm mental health. It happens at a glacial pace and the wheels in motion set forth before my birth have pre determined that I have a arrived at this state of mind on this date. Not 5 years later or 10 years before, but at this point in space-time. We are composed of electrons and atoms and particles. But me getting excited doesn't seem to explain a damn thing now does it.
Strength is humility.. humility is strength.
Accepting one is completely and totally ignorant. What one generations knows another learns slightly different and so in over time through evolutionary social changes... Change is a constant and there were players in the game long before you arrived in scene and if you think for one second you are allowed a seat at the table hat "rules the world" the prevailing financial and economice governments and individuals that are more referred to as the bourgeois. The owners that through geopolitical and financial interests plot and scheme to maintain their said dominance of whatever market share they collectively own via legal and illegal and down right despicable means to maintain market share.
Governments owned via corporations and the scum of the earth sellouts that support them that maintain this farce of a reality for any supposed democratic or for the most part any country in this planet under the supply chains of capitalism. Africa is enslaved and if you HAVE to work.. that means you are as well.
Before you dumbasses comment.. but how dis git dun?? Work is a right and a fundamental one, everyone who is able and capable, will need to work. How else are we going to get what is required to maintain a functioning society that can grow and thrive? But this industrial capitalist methods are going the way of the dodo.. first a end to all overseas military presences... The US ends being the world police which is nothing more than state sanctioned thuggery to enforce countries into economic servitude at their own detriment.
Humans are really easily beguiled.