Q. “What is it that those of us who have never been through such a thing [as a kidnapping] need to understand, or can never understand?”
– Kate, Rockville, Maryland

A.”It seemed to me that people didn’t seem to understand how it really affects you, mentally. How you have to be so complicit and be so … you just have to be able to do whatever it is they want you to do to survive. People seem to think you should stand up for your … if they want you to do something that you find to denounce your country, for example, you should just say, “oh, no, I can’t do that.” That’s suicide. People need to understand that, … I think they sort of forget that, literally, these are people that will kill you at any moment. So, especially after a few months or a few weeks, you are not thinking normally. Even after a few days you are not thinking normally at all, and you are just in sort of a massive survival mode. So, on the one hand, you are thinking hard all the time, and trying to find ways to survive, and try to relate to these people and make them see you as a human, and at the same time you have to be so complicit and you have absolutely no control over anything. When you sleep, when you eat, when you go to the bathroom, what you say, whether you stand up, whether you sit down, nothing. So, over time, you lose yourself. You don’t have any self-will, or self-determination, or decision making ability, or ability to say no. All those boundaries we have in a normal life are gone. And you are just whatever anyone else around you wants you to be. Because you know that’s how you have to be to survive. People seem to forget, when I came out, why I was so … why I was what I would describe as mushy, or complacent. You do whatever you have to do to survive. And they do whatever they want to you. And you have to let them do whatever they want to you, if you ever want to get out. Aside, of course, from killing you.”

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A cartogram of world wealth. This will appear in the introductory chapter on Globalistan.

“I discovered a McGuffin,” continues Lucas, still reluctant to name said McGuffin. “I told the guys about it and they were a little dubious about it, but it’s the best one we’ve ever found… Unfortunately, it was a little too ‘connected’ for the others. They were afraid of what the critics would think. They said, “Can’t we do it with a different McGuffin? Can’t we do this?” and I said “No”. So we pottered around with that for a couple of years. And then Harrison really wanted to do it and Steve said, “Okay”. I said, “We’ll have to go back to that original MacGuffin and take out the offending parts of it and we’ll still use that area of the supernatural do deal with it”.

Swami sez: it’s still going to be offensive.

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