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Not useful, wanting to help but not desired to be helpful.
Encouraged-- make that ordered-- to communicate my feelings and give my opinions, and then penalized for doing so.
I know he doesn't realize that's what he's doing, but it's like some kind of exquisitely cruel game.
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"