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It feels strangely liberating to do precisely as instructed. I don’t have to worry about displeasing the sergeant as long as I follow his orders exactly.
It is liberating to not have to think for yourself, to be able to blame the person giving instruction. But do anything to stay out of trouble is not always the right way. Sometimes questions need to be asked.
When you do exactly as you’re told, and you’re neither the best nor the worst at any task, you can disappear in the crowd and have a small measure of solitude.
civil rights are not exactly the first thing on your mind when someone fires a gun in your direction.
“There’s no perfect place, you know. You always end up trading one kind of shit for another. Me, I’ll stick with the shit I know.”
