Sorry, my mom was a psychiatrist who was able to mostly treat the seriously mentally ill, and most people in the field avoided those (whether in a single payer system or the American mixed one), so I’m cynical about some of the helping professions through her lasting influence.
“Clashes began between two different protest groups today, when the Young Activists With Naysayings (or YAWN) encountered the much more radical Rage Against The Imprecise Nameless Groaning (or RATING). YAWN-RATING conflict began with an exchange of generalized complaints, rapidly escalating to unkind words. Shock troops were deployed to distribute pizza, and the protesters were hauled off to maximum security spas while they napped.”
“pointless force meeting a useless object” — in other words, people herding. There was some sci-fi story from decades ago where the protagonist was deemed a drug evader and a sexual deviant because he wouldn’t have sex.
This scene makes me think that Sirius Cybernetics has sent out therapy droids to help people “share and enjoy.”
‘a brave new world’ is what i think you are thinking of. yeah, similar vibe, i suppose. i think it’s hard to think of a future that is superficially perfect, without seeing it through our cynical 21st century lens. but i mean, a future with all the sex and drugs you want? i mean……
“Therapist teams” … I too would react violently, even were I not an Ennuighur or Central Asian at all.
I am reminded of Rdislaw “Radek” Sikorski’s description, one of his last as a journalist before he reclaimed his aristocratic title in his liberated homeland and became a successful politician, of a supposedly Green protest against the German military and good relations with recently freed states to the East that “for the first time in my life, I felt sympathy with a German in uniform”. This from a guy who’d quite contentedly fired on East Germans in Angola and Soviets in Afghanistan.
Some things just scramble one’s default settings.
i actually think that therapist teams would be a healthy way to respond to some issues. but certainly not the type where people are bombastically calling themselves ennuighers. the whole point was to expose the readers to a pointless force meeting a useless object. at least from the readers perspective.
Sorry, my mom was a psychiatrist who was able to mostly treat the seriously mentally ill, and most people in the field avoided those (whether in a single payer system or the American mixed one), so I’m cynical about some of the helping professions through her lasting influence.
“Clashes began between two different protest groups today, when the Young Activists With Naysayings (or YAWN) encountered the much more radical Rage Against The Imprecise Nameless Groaning (or RATING). YAWN-RATING conflict began with an exchange of generalized complaints, rapidly escalating to unkind words. Shock troops were deployed to distribute pizza, and the protesters were hauled off to maximum security spas while they napped.”
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that’s pretty good. i should have had you write the news blurb!
“pointless force meeting a useless object” — in other words, people herding. There was some sci-fi story from decades ago where the protagonist was deemed a drug evader and a sexual deviant because he wouldn’t have sex.
This scene makes me think that Sirius Cybernetics has sent out therapy droids to help people “share and enjoy.”
‘a brave new world’ is what i think you are thinking of. yeah, similar vibe, i suppose. i think it’s hard to think of a future that is superficially perfect, without seeing it through our cynical 21st century lens. but i mean, a future with all the sex and drugs you want? i mean……
“Ennuighers” is clever. I actually guffawed! (That’s a surprised laugh.. wink wink)
thanks, i was pretty proud of that one. i was thinking what a half clever jerk might come up with, and being a half clever jerk, it wasn’t too tricky.
“Therapist teams” … I too would react violently, even were I not an Ennuighur or Central Asian at all.
I am reminded of Rdislaw “Radek” Sikorski’s description, one of his last as a journalist before he reclaimed his aristocratic title in his liberated homeland and became a successful politician, of a supposedly Green protest against the German military and good relations with recently freed states to the East that “for the first time in my life, I felt sympathy with a German in uniform”. This from a guy who’d quite contentedly fired on East Germans in Angola and Soviets in Afghanistan.
Some things just scramble one’s default settings.
i actually think that therapist teams would be a healthy way to respond to some issues. but certainly not the type where people are bombastically calling themselves ennuighers. the whole point was to expose the readers to a pointless force meeting a useless object. at least from the readers perspective.