So, in a few months I’m probably going to do a terrible
thing.
I can’t yet reveal what this terrible thing is – I’ve been
sworn to secrecy by those who technically don’t know I’m going to do the
terrible thing, per se, but since the terrible thing is connected to a related
not-so-terrible thing I can’t discuss at the moment, well, you see what’s going
on here.
I say “probably,” because, recently I participated in a
rather long discussion on whether or not people like me (or people like me who
want to be like other, more advanced people) should do the terrible thing I’m
probably going to do. The consensus was doing the terrible thing, while
protected by various things we shall in this instance call freedoms, should not
be done lest those more advanced people’s feelings get hurt in ways that would
suddenly make my efforts to become one of the more advance people harder to
accomplish. Words like “thin-skinned,” “vengeful,” and “sometimes petty” were
brought up in this discussion on whether or not people in my position should do
the terrible thing.
One caveat: This terrible thing has nothing to do with
employment. I will still have a job after I (probably) do the terrible thing.
And if I don’t it won’t be because of the terrible thing, unless one of the
more advanced, think-skinned, vengeful, and petty people to whom I do the
terrible thing have a lot of pull and influence in the nuclear waste cleanup
world. Which is probably not outside the realm of possibility.
Part of the message in the discussion on whether or not one
should do the terrible thing revolved around the insular, closely-connected
world of the more advanced people, There exist quid pro quos that if one
doesn’t do the terrible thing to another, the other won’t do the terrible thing
to you. Even if you deserve to have the terrible thing done to you, or if they
deserve it as well.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
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