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Originally Posted by exsquid
The sad thing is that the things he legitimately did do were pretty cool and way beyond what your average Joe accomplishes in life. If he just stuck with that he still would have been able to parlay it into a substantial online/internet following.
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In the atmosphere of "I have a cool guy YouTube / TikTok / Instagram / Facebook / Fuck the Quiet Professional moniker" channel age - simply being proud of (and accountable to) the things you actually did do doesn't separate you out from the other 100 dudes with beards and a tattered ball cap doing the circuit for "likes and followers".
Personally I don't get it.
Of course - we are a product of our own sense of self importance. When I reached out to the SOA for membership; I posted about how my dick and balls not being worthy of their company. "You did shit for 2+ decades - but not our level shit"... OK, whatever. Not THAT important to me. It's the focus of folks like Kennedy -> "Look at me! Hear my stories! LOVE ME!!!!!"
Whatever.... 
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Primum non Nocere
"I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble.
Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly."
The Reaper-3 Sep 04
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