Well, it's basically the same thing. The penchant people have for bonding during trauma brings them closer together and makes them vulnerable in a way most people wouldn't be comfortable with. The wardens should be traumatized to help them bond with their inmate and because it wouldn't really be fair if the inmates were the only ones being traumatized.. I mean, have you ever heard of a rehabilitation center like this? We're dead and floating on what could be the River Styx and I'd like to think that whoever it is that's running this would have a little more foresight than to give us a routine and Arts and Crafts. I mean, I know I'm young, but I was in therapy for years for my emotional problems AND on medications but I never really got better; I still had the same problems before I died that I did three years ago and I'd like to think that will change here.
[He pauses to take a breath, sounding slightly more flustered.]
You don't get it! There's a difference between banding together toward a common enemy or goal in times of stress like you're talking about and the kind of friendships that come with the exposure of secrets and deep vulnerability. It's sort of like a code among thieves. Even if it's pretty shallow between specific people, it's still going to last a long time and not be easily broken by the societies that we'll return to. The people that close off during floods only in time to recover for the next are exactly the kind of people that need that exposure to get them to open up because no one's just going to spend their entire time sitting in their room with no light on listening to The Cure or whatever other ways people might cope.
[A breath.]
You're assuming that the Admiral can't see the future as much as the past. If we're all operating in God's or The Admiral's or whatever channel of the passage of time, which the Barge could reasonably be, then he has the potential to see a lot farther than we do and, at that point, it would be selfish to think that we could possibly know what works for us better than he does.
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Date: 2010-07-31 09:10 pm (UTC)Well, it's basically the same thing. The penchant people have for bonding during trauma brings them closer together and makes them vulnerable in a way most people wouldn't be comfortable with. The wardens should be traumatized to help them bond with their inmate and because it wouldn't really be fair if the inmates were the only ones being traumatized.. I mean, have you ever heard of a rehabilitation center like this? We're dead and floating on what could be the River Styx and I'd like to think that whoever it is that's running this would have a little more foresight than to give us a routine and Arts and Crafts. I mean, I know I'm young, but I was in therapy for years for my emotional problems AND on medications but I never really got better; I still had the same problems before I died that I did three years ago and I'd like to think that will change here.
[He pauses to take a breath, sounding slightly more flustered.]
You don't get it! There's a difference between banding together toward a common enemy or goal in times of stress like you're talking about and the kind of friendships that come with the exposure of secrets and deep vulnerability. It's sort of like a code among thieves. Even if it's pretty shallow between specific people, it's still going to last a long time and not be easily broken by the societies that we'll return to. The people that close off during floods only in time to recover for the next are exactly the kind of people that need that exposure to get them to open up because no one's just going to spend their entire time sitting in their room with no light on listening to The Cure or whatever other ways people might cope.
[A breath.]
You're assuming that the Admiral can't see the future as much as the past. If we're all operating in God's or The Admiral's or whatever channel of the passage of time, which the Barge could reasonably be, then he has the potential to see a lot farther than we do and, at that point, it would be selfish to think that we could possibly know what works for us better than he does.