Droppie [loma] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘 on Nostr: @[url=]Jude🇵🇸[/url] @[url=]Kent Parkstreet[/url] A thousand years ago, in my ...

@[url=https://toot.community/users/sister_ratched]Jude🇵🇸[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.online/users/kentparkstreet1]Kent Parkstreet[/url] A thousand years ago, in my childhood, M&D would occasionally take the fambally [ie them & three kids] for day visits to one of her brothers & his fambally in their Blue Mtns home. My uncle [one of various fam peeps wot decades later rejected me out of hand once i had, ahem, [i]News[/i] for them] had a box of old magazines from his own childhood, & he was happy for me to go thru them. I did so, with assiduity & complete fascination. Heaps of them were Merkan "boy" magazines about hiking, camping, hunting, the great outdoors. I still remember this about them to this day... they were brimful of hunting stories, [white]man against the wilderness yarns, & bucketloads of ads for Winchesters, Remmingtons, & all the ammo one could eat.

In between visits iirc i'd often think about them, & i realised yonks later as a pretend-adult how massively influential they were on the plastic minds of callow youth. For several childhood years, based on the propaganda of mags like these, it seemed "natural" to me that it was [i]de rigueur[/i] for kids to learn about guns, be taught them, be bought them by parents, later buy & own their own, etc.

What i've just summarised occurred numerous decades ago, & happily i had outgrown all that bollocks by my teens, yet i remain disturbed by how easy it was for such cultural influences to spread their poison. In the context of Merkan gun culture, worship, & slaughters, extrapolating from my anecdote, i suspect that place never had a chance of avoiding today... brainwashing being immersive from childhood there.