The Battle of Chernobyl

[antarctico]

As the nuclear disaster in Fukushima continues to provide a global scale dose of daily perspective for anyone paying attention, and anyone making the effort to filter out the glass brittle happy talk provided us by an endless army of government dick steppers and corporate media bots, the last big atomic cluster fuck, comfortably 80's distant

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[jonparker]

I really miss seeing you post here. I really miss seeing you guys in person too. It's been years.

[antarctico]

Oh, memories of halcyon days gone by -- I scarcely exist in person these days. I explain this away as the logical consequence of all of the old loosely linked social circles breaking apart from each other and drifting away into smaller isolated social gulags. I mean, why take the time and trouble to meet in realspace when Fazebook can give you the illusion of still having friends and a social life. :/

I don't know, perhaps I'm over complicating things. Maybe it's just that everyone has gotten too old to do meth anymore. /sarcasm

[jonparker]

Well, for me the issue is that left alone without outside motivators I will isolate and communicate only through the keyboard. The internet has actually improved social relations for me -- I used to just isolate with no contact.

But then again, I'm mentally ill.