Jamie Mustard

You fail and you have to start again.

Then you have to do it with your eyes open.

If you blink, you fail.

So everyone fails.

Yeah.

They're telling you that you're learning to control yourself so that when things happen in front of you in the real world, you have the stoic ability to not react.

You're training yourself not to react.

But what they're actually doing is they're systematically removing your empathy.

They're systematically training you to not listen to your nervous system.

You're uncomfortable not blinking.

You're uncomfortable not moving for two hours.

You're five.

So you're training yourself to be comfortable being highly uncomfortable.

And then they do a drill right after you do the thing where you're staring at people and can't blink, where they get to mock you.

Homosexual humor, sex humor, five, six, seven years old, every kind of thing to get you to react.

And if you react, you fail.

So you basically learn not to react.

Then you go out in the regular world.

You see a child being hit.

You see a child not going to school.