Episode 93 (S3-08) - "The Curse!!!"
Jun 7, 2018 13:04:42 GMT
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Post by julsbo on Jun 7, 2018 13:04:42 GMT
I hadn’t realised how Relativist I’ve become until this episode. 🤔
Burrowing a bit deeper into my reaction, I think the things that bothered me about Grizzop & Sasha’s responses to Hamid were:
- both of them have been with Hamid long enough to know he is not generally amoral (quite the opposite!)
- they have been regularly witnessing the family’s dysfunction since they arrived in Egypt
- they know the family is heavily involved in the banking system that they’ve just helped to take down globally (well, Sasha rather than Grizzop, admittedly)
- they have just attended the funeral of Hamid’s sister whose killing they actually witnessed (FGS!!) so even as third parties they should be aware that the family may not be acting entirely normally
- they have just seen the authoritarian father taken into custody for Salah’s crime, and the media attention this had generated
Now, surely the sensible reaction would be to ask Hamid how Salah can be expected to recognise his horrendous judgement, the crime that resulted from it, atone for all of this, and THEN emerge a better and more responsible person if his father takes responsibility at a family level rather than allowing it to be a personal one. But that’s not what happened.
Instead, it all became a full-on harranging of someone who is already in a bit of an emotional tizz (even Azu, who’s been a party member for all of 5 minutes clocked Hamid’s mental state within seconds of meeting him). And the sneering “oh of course you would do this, you were born rich” is not only unconstructive, it’s unfair. Hamid hasn’t chosen his family’s wealth any more than he’s chosen their dysfunction. To go all therapy-speak, he’s starting to learn that he can control who he is and how he reacts to his family, but he’s really only just started to do that. Expecting him to jettison every scrap of his prior conditioning is a bit of a big ask, especially in the rather traumatic circumstances.
So: basically, Grizzop would make a terrible therapist. Hamid needs a therapist, and may be starting to realise it. Sasha really needs a therapist, but is so far from realising it she’d be more likely to knife the therapist for asking too many personal questions. And Azu... may actually be a potential therapist, if she works out how to get there.
Burrowing a bit deeper into my reaction, I think the things that bothered me about Grizzop & Sasha’s responses to Hamid were:
- both of them have been with Hamid long enough to know he is not generally amoral (quite the opposite!)
- they have been regularly witnessing the family’s dysfunction since they arrived in Egypt
- they know the family is heavily involved in the banking system that they’ve just helped to take down globally (well, Sasha rather than Grizzop, admittedly)
- they have just attended the funeral of Hamid’s sister whose killing they actually witnessed (FGS!!) so even as third parties they should be aware that the family may not be acting entirely normally
- they have just seen the authoritarian father taken into custody for Salah’s crime, and the media attention this had generated
Now, surely the sensible reaction would be to ask Hamid how Salah can be expected to recognise his horrendous judgement, the crime that resulted from it, atone for all of this, and THEN emerge a better and more responsible person if his father takes responsibility at a family level rather than allowing it to be a personal one. But that’s not what happened.
Instead, it all became a full-on harranging of someone who is already in a bit of an emotional tizz (even Azu, who’s been a party member for all of 5 minutes clocked Hamid’s mental state within seconds of meeting him). And the sneering “oh of course you would do this, you were born rich” is not only unconstructive, it’s unfair. Hamid hasn’t chosen his family’s wealth any more than he’s chosen their dysfunction. To go all therapy-speak, he’s starting to learn that he can control who he is and how he reacts to his family, but he’s really only just started to do that. Expecting him to jettison every scrap of his prior conditioning is a bit of a big ask, especially in the rather traumatic circumstances.
So: basically, Grizzop would make a terrible therapist. Hamid needs a therapist, and may be starting to realise it. Sasha really needs a therapist, but is so far from realising it she’d be more likely to knife the therapist for asking too many personal questions. And Azu... may actually be a potential therapist, if she works out how to get there.