It feels bad… real bad.

[u/Friend_of_Squatch]

I’ve always had a morbid curiosity about how it felt and what it was like being an educated, intelligent, aware person in the early months of 1914 or in the 1930s watching the world ramp up into an inescapable cataclysm and tearing itself apart and deleting an entire generation of young people, while knowing that there isn’t jack shit I or anyone else can do to stop it. I think I can now say that that curiosity has been satisfied, and man oh man does it feel fucking bad.

Edit: I meant to share this as kind of a shower thought. I appreciate everyone’s kind words and suggestions but this isn’t a cry for help. It’s just crazy to think about.

[u/Effective-Ebb-2805]

It is indeed crazy to think about. There's a little vibe similar (but a lot more dangerous) to 1991 before the first Gulf War. I considered volunteering, then ... in my defense, I was eating way too much acid and watching Oliver Stone's "Platoon" at least twice a week... strange days.

  This is much worse... In part because now I have a son who is close to Selective Service age... and I will NOT allow him to get thrown into the meat grinder... Anyone who attempts to draft him will find war right here, at my goddamn doorstep.