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[i_excel]

Y'know you have to take a long, hard look at your life and afterlife when you come to the realization that the most prominent activity you've been using to break the monotony is hours upon hours of paperwork. Not that it's something that could be too easily changed back home -- obligations being the pain in the ass that they are, and a certain need

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[pleasesmirk]

Order is always worth whatever it takes to enforce.

[i_excel]

Sure thing, Li'l fella. And that policy kept you out of here, right?

[pleasesmirk]

What did you call me?

No, but... order is nearly always worth what it takes to create.

[i_excel]

Don't think I misspelled it.

And -- not always. Sometimes there's order in disorder, and paperwork isn't gonna record it right anyway.

[pleasesmirk]

...Don't call me that again.

There's no order in disorder, that's an oxymoron. Disorder is anarchy, it's a total loss of control, it cannot be ordered by definition.

[i_excel]

Why?

And funny thing about anarchy -- the minute you put it in the hands of people it kind of fundamentally contradicts itself. You get anarchists, and being social human creatures, an evolutionary turn that is usually completely out of their control, and they start gathering -- which defeats the whole purpose.

Total disorder never lasts long. There's numbers crunching, wheels turning, and synapses popping somewhere, at any moment, that are going to culminate in shooting things into a calculable routine. It might not be the one anyone wants, but it doesn't need any strong-arming to get there.

[pleasesmirk]

Because it's demeaning.

I know human beings need order by default, but sometimes it must be enforced, you cannot rely on Fate or... the forces of human nature to pull it together, because all you end up with then is the ruling of the strongest, not the most fit to rule. You end up with a criminal heirarchy, and that's not order at all, it's organised chaos.

[i_excel]

It was supposed to be.

And that might be a pretty easy conclusion to come to if you're addressing it from the inside.

[pleasesmirk]

I did nothing to deserve being demeaned.

It's the best place to address it from.

[i_excel]

You don't get out and have fun much, do you?

And it's also rarely the most accurate.

[pleasesmirk]

What is it with this place and its obsession with 'fun'?

Depends on your method of quantifying it.

[i_excel]

That's it. I'm making it my personal mission to find you a hobby, Mister.

And that'd be the method that prevents the observer from tainting or messing it up or missing something sheerly by being involved.

[pleasesmirk]

...a hobby? And it's Captain.

Truth is, we're all involved in some way or another, we all have subjectivities, so the only quantifiable way of measuring it is through scientific methods.

[i_excel]

You're involved until you're not, actually.

And yes, a hobby. And it's happening. On threat of taunting you with annoying pet names.

[pleasesmirk]

I wonder which may actually prove to be more annoying, the names you come up with, or whatever hobby you thrust upon me.

[i_excel]

See, and that's the flaw in being part of the experiment. You don't get to know the outcome until you arrive there.