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Old 09-06-2022, 04:35 AM   #18 (permalink)
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The entities with agency direct the entities that don't have agency, and the results of those decisions are manifest.
As an aside to your aside, one of the best book I've ever read was Operators and Things

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Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic - Goodreads
OPERATORS AND THINGS: THE INNER LIFE OF A SCHIZOPHRENIC by Barbara O'Brien (not her real name) is an insider's view of madness. There have been others who have tried to capture their mental break in words, but most are paranoid, disjointed and, well, crazy. O'Brien is different.

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Operators and Things | Silver Birch Press
Operators and Things | Silver Birch Press OPERATORS AND THINGS by Barbara O'Brien Reissue of the 1958 classic true story of a woman's descent into schizophrenia and her journey back to sanity. "O'Brien has produced a work of brilliance and power, evoking a combination of Kafka and Joyce, with a touch of Orwell." Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
Her world consisted of those who put invisible hooks in the backs of the recievers of their operant conditioning. Operators and their [NPC] things.

One amazing scene was when the voices in her head told her exactly what to do in order to walk out of a jail. Then they cured her and left.
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