Technically, I’ve done more to dismantle the military-industrial complex than the average person because when I was nine years old I made a F-16 pilot experience Ego Death (this is not a joke)

If you ever want to destroy a fighter pilot’s sense of self-worth, simply get a nine year old autistic child to ask him, completely earnestly, why he’s “not good enough” to fly the plane that kid was currently hyperfixated on instead of the one he spent thousands of hours learning. That man experienced the annihilation of self in real-time at the hands of a child in cargo shorts and a thomas the tank engine t-shirt