To paraphrase:
“Our Great War is an autist war.
Our Great Depression is the world outside.”
fuck me I love that so many of you got where I was going with my sentiments without needing to spelling things out and even expanding on them. Despair was never an option boys.
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence
has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men
have always done so, and
confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying
their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through
their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the
highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected
corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors,
obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark."
Emerson, Self Reliance