ᴅʀ. ᴀbel ɢideon, the Chesapeake Rip-Off (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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maskormenace2014-01-21 06:56 pm
enabeled) wrote in maskormenace2014-01-21 06:56 pm
oo1 ✖ video
[ There's a careful sort of fumbling with the communicator, the kind that comes from someone unused to at least using settings such as video. It's more of a performance, after all, and if you're going to the trouble there's something to be said for presentation. It's set across from him, as one might record a video diary or a confession.
Abel Gideon is wearing a dark shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, his hands resting atop each other, fingers to wrist. ]
Now, I think by now we're all accustomed to a little inconvenience. Many of us intimately familiar, even... but regardless of history here we all are. Not that I would suggest there's anything right or wrong about that, either. Who am I to say? Just is. Here we all are... foreign visitors, lost to a strange new land.
Me, I can't complain. By a certain point in your life you come to realize the scarcity of true... opportunity. That and clarity. So. To get to the point... I think people get manipulated in two major kinds of ways.
[ He holds up two fingers in the world's laziest mockery of a peace sign, though it almost seems an unconscious motion for how much he acknowledges any movement occurred. ]
There's the kind where they give you answers. And there's the kind where they keep answers from you. Now the two may overlap, probably will -- usually do -- but motive may often lay inherit in what the ratio is. Not knowing that it's hard to really know what to trust. That's what I think.
Abel Gideon is wearing a dark shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, his hands resting atop each other, fingers to wrist. ]
Now, I think by now we're all accustomed to a little inconvenience. Many of us intimately familiar, even... but regardless of history here we all are. Not that I would suggest there's anything right or wrong about that, either. Who am I to say? Just is. Here we all are... foreign visitors, lost to a strange new land.
Me, I can't complain. By a certain point in your life you come to realize the scarcity of true... opportunity. That and clarity. So. To get to the point... I think people get manipulated in two major kinds of ways.
[ He holds up two fingers in the world's laziest mockery of a peace sign, though it almost seems an unconscious motion for how much he acknowledges any movement occurred. ]
There's the kind where they give you answers. And there's the kind where they keep answers from you. Now the two may overlap, probably will -- usually do -- but motive may often lay inherit in what the ratio is. Not knowing that it's hard to really know what to trust. That's what I think.
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I believe performing functions for them will assist me in adapting here.
That, of course, does not imply that I trust them.
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Regardless, it is easier to gain a better understanding of this governing power from within their fold.
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[ The calm assurance in his voice lilts, wry but with an edge of sincerity. ]
What do they have you doing?
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I find it to be an appropriate function for my skill set.
And you, Doctor?
I assume they would have found a man with your academic qualifications a fitting position.
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Homeland security. Nothing too difficult then, I presume.
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One in your position can easily harm or heal.
I personally am comfortable with my new occupation.
It is simple enough, given my skills.
Although I suppose it is somewhat unnerving for others.
People do not always seem to enjoy being watched.
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But actually Danger, everybody likes attention. Wouldn't be surprised if the desire for an audience was part of human nature itself.
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Humans can be so contradicting when it comes to words and actions.
Our mutual friend, for example, both protests and seems exhilarated to have his privacy imposed upon that way.
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Ambition, or perhaps insecurity?
Some emotional deficiency that causes the sufferer to require the acknowledgment of others?
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I understand your logic.
Perhaps you would make a better psychiatrist than our Dr. Chilton.
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And I yours. I'm not so sure I have the right temperament for psychiatry -- just like shooting the breeze.
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At best, is it intrusive.
At worst, manipulative.
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So long as it's not manipulative. But then, how would they ever know?
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As well as trust.
It seems unfortunate that those in a position where they are granted both often choose to manipulate.
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Now, trust is something always worth keeping to yourself... I'd say. Unless you know a person stands nothing to gain from helping you, isn't worth it. No benefit to being a victim.
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I am quite finished with allowing others to mislead me.
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