UN: Ulysses | Text

[restingstitchface]

Well, I would hardly claim this is my favoured method of passing time, but there’s no use protesting. Sometimes we need to knuckle down and ensure the work is done. Because as you can see for yourself, sometimes the work is dull.

In any case, I am offering everyone a pleasant extra-curricular activity to pass the time.

Try responding to this post with the first word that comes to mind. Respond to words posted by others with other words that come to mind. I am more than aware such games are not for everybody, but perhaps you should give it a shot.

Ah, I suppose I should get us started:

Police.

As in, somebody call the police because this is Hell.

[People who enjoy social media often press send before thinking about their answers. But how is that his problem?]

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[restingstitchface]

[ fuck the outdoors. give him a laboratory. ]

Bribery.

Who are the authorities here, anyway?

[ fuck the police batfamily. ]

[zauneyete]

[ Or a dank little bar. ]

Cheap.

I think here in this "Camp" it is the "councilors".

Otherwise? Whomever decides that they hold enough authority to enforce laws that don't quite exist. I suppose in the end, there is always Aurora, but who would cause problems in Etraya? After all, there's no money, no starvation, nobody wants for much of anything.

[ He... hates it so much. ]

[restingstitchface]

No requirement for enterprise. No necessity for caution. No need for minding one's...

Business.

People can make the mistake of dictating the law. But life is a series of mistakes. And we evolve from those mistakes...

[One would think.]

[zauneyete]

Astounding, isn't it? How creating such a bland place where nobody wants for anything makes it so incredibly... boring.

[ If it weren't for the fact that Etraya had revived the one person Silco hated more than anything, he would list this as his least favorite factor about the place. As it is, he is constantly reminded how much he hates this place, the lack of need, the way people simply... existed.

Who had ever heard of not fighting for survival. ]

Industry.

Would you also consider laws a mistake, I wonder?

[ He would. ]

[restingstitchface]

I consider them a necessary component for fostering interaction within a social species.

[But what if you are asocial or anti-social? What if you are a criminal? Even criminals have their own rules.

Laws by another name.]

Put two children together and you'll have laws within a matter of minutes.

[This is my toy, not yours.]

[zauneyete]

Fleeting laws, but yes you do have laws. Ones that change at the moment and the whim of one or another.

Do you prefer them fleeting? Disorganized, chaotic?

Or do you see value in long-term laws? The kind that hold fast for generations?

[restingstitchface]

I cannot say I prefer them one way or the other. They are what they are.

[Something to be studied and observed. Something to be changed. Something to remove. Something to impose.]

Laws hold no value themselves. It is people who give them value, after all.

[zauneyete]

[ He's starting to get a feel for this guy. His interest is in how people react to things, not to who they are or what they make. He wants to see what they do, maybe understand it. ]

Do you like that? Seeing how people... adapt to that?

Purely for the enjoyment of the educational experience, I assume?

[restingstitchface]

Of course. But doesn't everyone? We all exhibit the same response: we just all have a different reason.

[He masks his true reason behind the cloak of human behaviour. Can't single him out if everyone's guilty, right?]