i really loved The Giver, it had me thinking very important deep thoughts at kinda a young age. My mom was a bit "hands off" with the homeschooling so after my siblings left, i was stuck in the middle of no where with few people to talk to. It wasnt ideal but as i get older, what seemed like Hell as a kid actually protected my fragile young mind from being conditioned to trust the system. those books made me carefully select people and companies to trust. Joining the union also made me untrusting. The Local Union i worked for was fine and most companies were fine, but taking OSHA 30 and listening to old timers and teachers in school made me really not trust contractors. Which has helped me on occasion, like when i worked for a company who needed a building expanded on, they made non union mexicans stay in a building with improper face protectors to protect them from the vapors from the sealant they were putting on the new concrete. The contractors wanted us to go back in the building and couldnt find the MSDS anywhere on the job. unrelated: theres a beagle factory. its only purpose is to breed beagles so they can be tested on at this facility i worked at. They didnt just test on them. they harvested their blood and boiled it, which is part of the manufacturing process for vaccines for animals, which makes me wonder if they need human farms to make vaccines for humans. the smell of boiling blood is hell on earth at the CDC they use glass pipe to send the chemically pulverized remains of experimented on monkeys to a large vat to be disposed of. During a saftey meeting we were told that if we ended up in a room with monkeys, to stay away. a scientist that worked there died from super AIDs when a monkey flung shit into her eye. we all laughed but the safety instructor was very serious. -one welder i was eating lunch with one day said he wondered why his welder kept changing settings at the CDC and then he noticed a monkey reaching its arm through the bars and changing the settings.