On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 19:08 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 19:01 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & > Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: > >> once upon a time, there was a happy comm[1850. around 1849 my UI froze >> and upon relaunch roughly the following text was missing:] of forest >> mushrooms that was normal and [here it froze, continuing]caring except for >> one: the traffick boss mushrom. >> >> for some reason the traffick boss mushroom kept trying tonstart hives of >> enslaved mushrooms to do everything for it and craft the world in its >> personal image rather than living a normal forest mushroom life itself. >> >> none of the other forest mushrooms understood this at all! they all knew >> deep i side them that every forest mushroom wanted every other forest >> mushroom to be happy and healthy and free part of a shared and >> evolutionarily fitting mushroom community, and would never ever harm or >> control any other forest mushroom. >> >> when traffick boss mushroom was asked this he would alw[1854 >> >> 2024-02-14 -0700 >> >> anyway the big question is, how would one relate with an imaginary >> traffick boss who [1855 >> >> so, we imagine maybe a traffick boss having experiences leading him to >> figure that the way to meet his instincts was enslaving other people. for >> example, maybe protecting people had never worked for him and he gave up >> doing this. >> >> “you think different traffick bosses would have different reasons and >> stories?” “yeah i guess but they probably have similarities and such! also >> there might be cultural patterns making some kinds of traffick bosses way >> more prevalent” “hmm ..” >> >> 1857 >> >> traffick boss mushroom hobbled on his mushroom stalk over to other forest >> mushrooms, letting tiny clouds of spore loose from his gills each step >> >> traffick boss mushroom [to a few other forest mushrooms]: “what do you >> think of this idea— >> >> 1858 >> —of there being some mushrooms that run hives of slavery, because um >> [looks at mushroom note] they have different reasons and stories - oh wait >> [looks at other mushroom note] i mean protecting people had never worked >> for them at all, and so they found other means to meet their needs?” >> >> the forest mushrooms looked at traffick boss mushroom and began crying. >> forest mushroom 1: “protecting people never ever worked for— >> > traffick boss: “what does it matter if they [value me empathically] i gave > up on that long ago and just try to control everything” (unknown for sure) > i was thinking the space here of interest is the normal caring entitites > are caring for a person’s potential traumatic experience, but the > experience is behind [trauma dissociation] so the relation could be poor > because engaging it could involve entering a flashback or altered state > still, (i think caring people have (instincts for such things, to hold > others carefully and gently and listen to their pain indicators for example > (it’s of course a (common and hard to engage topic in these threads > it’s notable in traffick boss community triggers and trauma seem used for influence, maybe kind of mocking empathy, makes harder > >> 1900 >> >
