They also gave her a job where she gets to do the things she’s secretly wanted to all along—like how Moriarty in _Elementary_ recruits potential serial killers and puts them to work as assassins.
Yeah, but if they’re that highly suggestible doesn’t it also mean that their loyalties are mutable in the field once they’re exposed to outside influences?
Interesting running thing here seems to be Artie’s understandable hatred of Anasigma starting to boil over into contempt. It’s employees are remorseless, but also suggestible drones, but also bigots. They aren’t capable of the same sort of emotion Valiant is feeling. They aren’t attuned to the sort of intellectual complexity Sergio experiences. (At the same time, we’re seeing from Echo and Alpha that this isn’t entirely true–except maybe for the “suggestible” part.)
It’s the sort of thinking that starts making it just a *little* easier to dehumanize your enemy, make you a *little* more likely to think that their life is, on a fundamental level, maybe just less valuable than yours, and the people you care about. It’s the sort of thinking that can lead to some pretty horrifying conclusions.
It’s also the sort of thinking that can lead you to underestimate someone…
One of the reasons Mr. Green keeps agents of Echo Bravo’s caliber around. Lull the opposition into false superiority, and then send the competent agents to clean up.
Never trust anyone with clean shoes.
…and after getting drunk in a sewer with a bunch of rats, that’s saying something.
Anasigma is only being thorough. How many deductions did Sherlock Holmes make based on a speck of soil from someone’s shoe?
Seriously. That guy knew the dirt from every street in London.
Holmes was skimping on his taxes? Who knew!
Methinks even Holmes would struggle to tell if you are being serious or sarcastic based on text alone..
Don’t wanna be extirpated, after all.
I don’t think Dr. Engelbright fits into the “brainwashed puppets” category. Not quite, anyway.
She’s the best kind of brainwashed puppet: the kind who thinks she’s one of the puppeteers.
They also gave her a job where she gets to do the things she’s secretly wanted to all along—like how Moriarty in _Elementary_ recruits potential serial killers and puts them to work as assassins.
Well he’s more of a contractor. They go rogue easy.
And suggestibility runs both ways.
He’s worked at Anasigma full-time for eight years. Just because the company counts as a contractor doesn’t mean that their employees do.
Yeah, but if they’re that highly suggestible doesn’t it also mean that their loyalties are mutable in the field once they’re exposed to outside influences?
I’d agree, but the Brainwashing says I shouldn’t
Of that were true, people wouldn’t need deprogrammers after being rescued from cults.
Didn’t vietnam brainwashing attempts basically not work – as soon as the people brainwashed returned home they reverted.
Though different types of manipulation and people who were in a cult didn’t really have a “home” outside of it I guess.
Interesting running thing here seems to be Artie’s understandable hatred of Anasigma starting to boil over into contempt. It’s employees are remorseless, but also suggestible drones, but also bigots. They aren’t capable of the same sort of emotion Valiant is feeling. They aren’t attuned to the sort of intellectual complexity Sergio experiences. (At the same time, we’re seeing from Echo and Alpha that this isn’t entirely true–except maybe for the “suggestible” part.)
It’s the sort of thinking that starts making it just a *little* easier to dehumanize your enemy, make you a *little* more likely to think that their life is, on a fundamental level, maybe just less valuable than yours, and the people you care about. It’s the sort of thinking that can lead to some pretty horrifying conclusions.
It’s also the sort of thinking that can lead you to underestimate someone…
One of the reasons Mr. Green keeps agents of Echo Bravo’s caliber around. Lull the opposition into false superiority, and then send the competent agents to clean up.
Hmmm, you might have something there, Shadowmehr.
Well to be fair they did raid his house.