My mole tried to be civil with her, but I had a meltdown and blew it. I don't know how you do it.
I thought about this a little further. Perhaps you're one of those optimistic souls who believe
anybody and
everybody is capable of being reasoned with; worth salvaging, and so it's important to take considerable time and trouble to bring them around.
Me? I adhere to Lord Baring's dictum that the primitives need to feel the lash; a tiny number of them because the lash will civilize them; a larger but still very tiny number of them because the lash will half-civilize them, but 99% of the primitives need to feel the lash simply because they're primitives.
My mole's ass-kissing of nadin--it's not a pretty job, by the way--has as its motive boosting and inflating her ego, her sense of
grandeur, her narcissism, her arrogance. My mole by itself cannot possibly engender the downfall of nadin--nor can all the concentrated efforts of other moles and
bona fide primitives on Skins's island who are turned off by her (0bamanaut, SidDithers, and the other skeptics).
People such as nadin inevitably self-destruct on their own.
But they can be helped along, gently shoved along, into self-destruction by others helping to bloat the ego.
