Neurotypicals at what they can do the best pathologizing what makes others happy and joyful!
welp, allistics seem to think happyness needs to be cured sometimes
I have to fight the urge to start a debate if trains or ships are cooler
Ships, trains and planes are all cool.
Trucks though…
Trucks used for transportation of goods are cool
Trucks for the transportation of goods are okay, I guess…
Trucks for the transportation of overinflated egos, on the other hand, are complete wastes of workmanship and resources.
The nuance could start a rhetorical war
Damn, and they even pathologized it. I guess some things never change.
Maybe we should pathologize neurotypicals’ tendencies to pathologize anything they can’t relate to.
Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get “cured” instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.
Can you imagine a better person to appoint for your harbormaster? Or even a harbormaster assistant, this guy would do it for free and do it better than anyone.
An underappreciated part of civilizational development is social technology, as opposed to material technology.
Sometimes people just don’t think of seemingly obvious ways to do things for hundreds or thousands of fucking years. Human society is a funny thing.
Lord Vetinari would have him on the city payroll.
“You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean.” sweeping gesture toward the window
“Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?”
“My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool.”
<3
Where’s the part where he suffers?
It came after “the cure” when he never felt as happy again