Posted by alexandra_k on May 4, 2015, at 20:31:57
In reply to Re: community vs big bang, posted by alexandra_k on May 2, 2015, at 0:25:53
There is this book I read... Years ago now... Back in the days when I used to practically inhale them... It was a novel... A suspense / thriller kind of thing. I have only a dim (probably distorted memory).
Something something about the Medici family. Something something about them giving their servants small doses of mercury... Not enough to kill them, enough so their bodies adapted to the mercury... Then over the years they had more and more of it in their system... Then if they ever left the Medici family... They would die of the sudden withdrawal of mercury from their system.
Or maybe it wasn't mercury... Maybe it was something else...
But anyway... That was the origin / start of pharma. Or something.
And all of that might have just been some kind of vignette in the very beginning.
And then forwards to more present day... There was this girl who was studying someplace. Something chemistry... Anyway... Getting near the end of her time there... So she applies to work at this mega pharmaceutical corporation whatever whatever... And she gets invited to their recruitment weekend. And they fly her out and put her up in this hotel.
And then she sits their exam-y thing. And she's a chemistry genius, obviously, but there is this one question that she simply can't get... And something happens... And she sees what this other person put down. And (thoroughly unlike her) she copies that down, since she didn't have a better idea.
And she gets this job offer. And she starts to work at the corporation. But things go kinda sorta pear shaped. She doesn't seem to fit in...
And I don't remember much of anything else of it...
Except that it turned out that there was meant to be some subliminal message thing that was playing in her hotel room prior to the test. And that question (that she cheated on) was the question that told them whether the potential employee would be susceptible to their 'training'.
And of course she wasn't. And she did not fit.
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This year is starting to feel a bit like that. They getting a lot of social policy down us / out of us / into us. Something... Something... I thought the UMAT was bad, but this seems to have gone into over-drive. Maybe I've gotten older / more cynical / something something... Maybe multi-guess always was this way... I don't know...
I do wonder a bit if I'm sufficiently immune... For that to be a bad thing.
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I suppose I wonder most whether this is just me doing the stabotage thing... Focus on what's important alex. focus on the things you can do...
This... Not precisely paranoia... But this... This is a new thing for me. I don't think I got an edge of this before. I think maybe that is what happens when you go from something delightfully (one way of looking at it) removed from anything of any actual consequence to something that matter so much to so very many people that it's scary as hell... Truth be told.
This whole dual thing... Homo sapiens... On the one hand... persons. on the other hand.... pests. on the one hand save them... on the other hand how the hell do we limit the blight to the world? holy crap...
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