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- Nov 10, 2022
I was going to say it's because only the good die young.
When I read the various reactions and attempts to make sense of Jack's or Kay's insistence on fucking simple things up for no good reason, it helps me better appreciate that the common personality disorders we're largely desensitized to observing in others in the course of our day manifest in some rather dramatic ways in the mentally retarded.
I've made this comparison before; and likely will again: Jack is like if the experiment in Flowers for Algernon was intended to instead make a low-functioning retarded man more retarded; just to see how much more obnoxious, disruptive, and destructive he becomes. If it wasn't for Jack's regular trips to the ER, I would suspect his skull of being filled with worms that starved to death.
When I read the various reactions and attempts to make sense of Jack's or Kay's insistence on fucking simple things up for no good reason, it helps me better appreciate that the common personality disorders we're largely desensitized to observing in others in the course of our day manifest in some rather dramatic ways in the mentally retarded.
I've made this comparison before; and likely will again: Jack is like if the experiment in Flowers for Algernon was intended to instead make a low-functioning retarded man more retarded; just to see how much more obnoxious, disruptive, and destructive he becomes. If it wasn't for Jack's regular trips to the ER, I would suspect his skull of being filled with worms that starved to death.