In this specific case, the knowledge regarding how to build a house is easier to acquire than the knowledge regarding the delicate balance of the ecosystem which used to thrive where you built your house.

Some knowledge is easier to acquire than other knowledge, and that inequity breaks things that only get figured out generations or centuries down the line.

Yup.

Since this place has midwest in the name, and the main mod is from Ohio, I’m gonna roll some dice here. If you happen to be anywhere near northeast Ohio, There’s a group in Cuyahoga Falls called “Meaningful Conversations Akron” that can be found on FB and meets every Saturday morning at 9:30 AM. They leverage principles of interfaith spirituality to stay focused on the sort of unity which is necessary as a goal in order to even begin winding down the division that dragged us here.

The old stickied post suggested going out and making friends in person. That effort is how I found that group. It’s been really good for me.

In the immediate future, the screenshot archive becomes unmanageable.

In the long term future, it becomes the modern equivalent of what your parents and grandparents got out of keeping a scrapbook or photo album.

I’ve been chronically online since 1997. Going through a scrap folder which I held onto when decommissioning an old PC or phone brings back all kinds of memories. I even find that noting the changes in my meme taste can be really useful for identifying points where I’ve grown as a person. That, in turn, leads to reprocessing old memories and identifying ways in which I brought something to the table which facilitated some of my own bad experiences. That helps me heal.

It would be the most expedient route to keeping him useful if either of the folks who tried to take a shot at him were legit threats rather than stunts.