during the Viet nam War when things were crazy sort of like now with people dying all over: (Many many more are dying now by the way) than then

Note: To make more sense of the times we live in we are likely to lose as many as during World War II between now and March of 2022.

IF I believe the following quote we will reach the number of Americans who died in World War II in coronavirus deaths by January 1st 2021 just here in the U.S.

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407,000 Americans

Another 407,000 Americans were killed in World War II. Many of those deaths were in the Pacific theater, battling the forces of imperial Japan, but, broadly, that's the number that gave their lives fighting the forces of the Axis powers.Aug 14, 2017

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This means that likely we will lose double the amount of people in World War II by march of 2022. and this isn't even counting the untested deaths!

 I found that especially during 1969 (the single craziest year of my life) where everything literally turned upside down for me which caused me barely to survive from 21 to 25. But, having done so I found myself to be 300% wiser than most of my friends then and now.

Why?

Because when you have to survive something serious (like the Viet Nam War, the Kennedy assassinations, Martin Luther King being assassinated, the Cuban Missile crisis, the Arab Oil embargo which destroyed the economy of the U.S. and Europe at the time and made the average America poor in comparison to the 1960s and 1950s at least.

Then there was the 1980s where I became a survivalist because I expected the U.S. government to go bankrupt because of the excesses of the Viet Nam war financially. But, luckily I was wrong in that Europe and Japan who the U.S. had helped survive after World War II ended then loaned us money so the U.S. government didn't have to go bankrupt. 

Then the next really big crisis was 9-11 which threw the whole world into an insane tailspin for many different reasons. Then the Great Recession which drove many of the middle class people who lost their homes and their savings that they had worked for for 20 to 50 years and were financially destroyed.

Trump by the way is revenge of these people upon the U.S. 

If you are around the world you have to know that voting for Trump was revenge (even though misplaced) a desperate revenge of the financially destroyed trying to curse America for what had happened to them during the Great Recession.

Voting for Trump was a releasing of the pent up anger at the banks destroying their lives and stealing their homes during the great recession.

Was it self destructive?

Yes. 

So much so that we might lose our democracy completely from the suicidal tendencies of the blue collar people who lost everything during the great recession.

This is what we are presently facing as a nation now.

Presently we might be heading towards a French Revolution style outcome that literally guillotines the rich throughout America.

This is one potential outcome at present.

This, however, would be even more destructive to the American way of life than voting for Trump in the first place.

However, one of the methods of surviving times like this is watching good movies. It temporarily relieves the stress of worrying about yourself, your friends and your family dying of coronavirus or starving to death because they don't have a job.

So, while things are insane (coronavirus insane) people need to find a way to escape the insanity of their everyday lives and one way is entertainment.

In 1969 and 1970 (I was 21 and 22 then) I realized that the direction many people were going: Alcohol, marijuana, hallucinogenics and harder drugs wasn't a useful direction to go unless you were interested in dying young or going insane.

I found that watching movies was temporary and had no ill effects mentally or physically as long as you weren't watching things with subliminal manipulation which put people then in mental institutions like "The Exorcist" which destroyed many  people's lives from the subliminal seduction things that drove some people literally insane then.

So, as long as you are careful what you are watching and trying to move towards more uplifting movies that might be escapist for you. 

I try to NEVER watch 3D movies because it is easier to subliminally manipulate audiences through 3D than any other method I know of at present.

Also, I had a headache for 2 to 3 days from watching a 3D of Green Lantern which cured me of ever watching another 3D movie.