[That makes her smile too, and it's thin, but less bitter.]
No. I didn't say you ought to install yourself, of course. We could put up a billboard of potential benevolents, disqualify them one by one.
And leverage yields concessions, not total authority, unless you had the minions to guard the food at all times and no one zeroed you for it, which would result in a war zone, which would be worse.
The point is, if you can come up with one concrete demand - 'stop treating inmates like they're automatically bad people' has the seed of one, even if it's subjective and vague and not all wardens do that to start with - then make that demand. Make it publicly. You've got a lot of standing right now, and if people though it would accomplish something specific, they'd flock. Get everyone who assists essential functions to refuse until it's met. Things would change. Not everything overnight, but something real, or else the barge would fall apart.
You just have to stop treating surrender and anger as the only options, and decide on something you actually want. But if you can't come up with anywhere you'd like to even start fixing things, no one else is going to figure it out for you.
Video; private.
No. I didn't say you ought to install yourself, of course. We could put up a billboard of potential benevolents, disqualify them one by one.
And leverage yields concessions, not total authority, unless you had the minions to guard the food at all times and no one zeroed you for it, which would result in a war zone, which would be worse.
The point is, if you can come up with one concrete demand - 'stop treating inmates like they're automatically bad people' has the seed of one, even if it's subjective and vague and not all wardens do that to start with - then make that demand. Make it publicly. You've got a lot of standing right now, and if people though it would accomplish something specific, they'd flock. Get everyone who assists essential functions to refuse until it's met. Things would change. Not everything overnight, but something real, or else the barge would fall apart.
You just have to stop treating surrender and anger as the only options, and decide on something you actually want. But if you can't come up with anywhere you'd like to even start fixing things, no one else is going to figure it out for you.