Not to mention that the Wardens don't have any power restrictions, but force us to--unevenly, meaning that it's easy as hell for some inmates to victimize others. The Wardens want to make us dependent on them for protection by taking our weapons and powers away, but when we need that protection it is not forthcoming!
And even easier for the wardens to victimize them. We've seen how little they'll do against their own.
The promise of protection is only another chain to hold us with. So long as they keep holding it out for next time and people keep believing in it, they never need to follow through.
I've always believed in loose-knit teams, people who decide things by talking it over instead of basing everything on one leader's knee-jerk. I mean, if you have to have government, people need to have a say.
Here, though...we have the Admiral, unreachable save by his very diverse group of angels. Sometimes it really bothers me.
The people have no say in any government on my world, so it's not so unusual to me.
And here we have the wardens, who support the system by participating in it, by controlling our bodies, our minds, our freedoms. It's not all on the Admiral. They could break the ranks if they wanted... but our happiness, our safety isn't in their interest. Only that we change to suit them so they get paid.
They're the "angels" I was talking about. I'm sorry. Western Earth religious metaphor. Basically angels are messengers of an unknowable god who tend themselves to be...pretty imperfect.
I know. The point is so long as they support each other, keep everything to themselves, all their words are only words. They may not be the ones who physically keep us here, as they like to remind me, but they do nothing to make it easier and conspire with each other to make it harder, by enforcing the system of warden privileges and keeping news of murder from us whenever they can. They're all complicit.
That last one really bothers me. When something disastrous happens, we need to know so we don't wander into the middle of it!
I don't know. Sometimes I get the idea that I'll just graduate and stay around trying to change the system from within. But I wonder if it's even possible.
inmate filterlifeafterhopeSeptember 22 2011, 20:41:05 UTC
Information is power. They have no reason not to withhold it from us and every reason to do so if they want things to stay as they are - another measure of how much our safety really matters to them.
Or if you'd want to after letting the system take you like that. We already have broken inmates around and they have done nothing.
inmate filterlifeafterhopeSeptember 22 2011, 21:16:09 UTC
People can, yes. Wardens can. But can the Admiral? With the files it's clear enough that he knows more than he should already.
Does she tell us when things break down, or does she keep the wardens' silence? Does she forgo the little privileges that only serve to mark the classes - the private showers, the warden areas, the freedom?
She's shared some of her privileges with inmates. She was the one that got me good and schnockered after I was kidnapped and couldn't handle it. It's not everything, but it's something.
inmate filterlifeafterhopeSeptember 23 2011, 03:51:08 UTC
Some, but not all, and not freely.
There are a lot of the wardens that can be convinced to do things for us, if we know their price, or if they're feeling generous. But that's nowhere near enough.
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The promise of protection is only another chain to hold us with. So long as they keep holding it out for next time and people keep believing in it, they never need to follow through.
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Here, though...we have the Admiral, unreachable save by his very diverse group of angels. Sometimes it really bothers me.
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And here we have the wardens, who support the system by participating in it, by controlling our bodies, our minds, our freedoms. It's not all on the Admiral. They could break the ranks if they wanted... but our happiness, our safety isn't in their interest. Only that we change to suit them so they get paid.
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They're the "angels" I was talking about. I'm sorry. Western Earth religious metaphor. Basically angels are messengers of an unknowable god who tend themselves to be...pretty imperfect.
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I don't know. Sometimes I get the idea that I'll just graduate and stay around trying to change the system from within. But I wonder if it's even possible.
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Or if you'd want to after letting the system take you like that. We already have broken inmates around and they have done nothing.
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I don't know. Parker was an inmate and she seems pretty damned concerned about our rights. But I don't think a lot of people listen to her.
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Does she tell us when things break down, or does she keep the wardens' silence? Does she forgo the little privileges that only serve to mark the classes - the private showers, the warden areas, the freedom?
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There are a lot of the wardens that can be convinced to do things for us, if we know their price, or if they're feeling generous. But that's nowhere near enough.
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