Okay, it was clearly a flawed premise. Leaving out people who actually like it here or want deals themselves and inmates who fall into ruts and wardens who can't get their shit together is too much of a stretch. It's still a stupid system, though.
[Habit born from years of thinking as loud as he can and nobody listening, and years before that of only ever thinking quietly because he knew what was good for him.]
You did opt in, then? I mean, for a given value of opt in, but you weren't just snatched unawares?
Because I think it matters, straight up kidnapping versus the illusion of choice, and if people are floundering under either of those conditions it might feel like a factor.
Directionless ennui. Boredom. Trying to give a damn what happens on the magical hell carnival space boat when it won't matter next week. Whatever you want to pin it down with, it sucks.
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Date: 2021-02-11 10:54 am (UTC)You say that, and yet some people have been here for years on end.
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Date: 2021-02-11 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-11 05:20 pm (UTC)Yes. Still, we both agreed to be here.
Rather, we both 'agreed' on the understanding that the alternative was....not ideal.
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Date: 2021-02-11 07:12 pm (UTC)[Ben does, in fact, like the barge, but he's well aware he'd like anything that wasn't stalking Klaus for another fifteen years.]
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Date: 2021-02-11 07:46 pm (UTC)I don't disagree.
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Date: 2021-02-11 08:29 pm (UTC)[Habit born from years of thinking as loud as he can and nobody listening, and years before that of only ever thinking quietly because he knew what was good for him.]
You did opt in, then? I mean, for a given value of opt in, but you weren't just snatched unawares?
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Date: 2021-02-11 08:32 pm (UTC)I had what sounded very much like the choice between surviving and...not. If we're calling that 'opting in'.
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Date: 2021-02-11 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-11 11:47 pm (UTC)That was all a long time ago anyway, so I'm wondering why you asked?
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Date: 2021-02-12 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-12 04:03 pm (UTC)How do you think my position would be different if I hadn't chosen this?
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Date: 2021-02-12 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-12 05:06 pm (UTC)A symptom of what, darling?
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Date: 2021-02-12 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-12 05:22 pm (UTC)I'm suspecting there isn't much of a point to prolonging this conversation, is there?
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Date: 2021-02-12 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-12 07:13 pm (UTC)Really? My mistake, warden.
[Click.]