To be stripped of feeling emotions, strips the victim of one of the ingredients to make and carry out moral choices. This helps explain why emotions are harnessed so completely by the programmers. When researchers have studied unemotional people, they find that their dealings with others are shallow, lifeless, and mechanical. The programmers want their programmed assassins, espionage agents, prostitutes, etc. to be mechanical. People rarely want to form friendships with unemotional persons. Of course, the parts that are created to interface with the public are programmed to be effacious, gracious, and to sparkle. But the deeper parts which influence the victim’s own internal thoughts, which the victim wisely keeps to himself, fail to connect with the outside world emotionally.
To me, this passage can indicate pretty strongly to Bree. She seems to be the perfect slave, until Daniel reached through to her and encouraged her to rebel.
Does this remind anyone of Bree's date with P. Monkey?Friendships are one of the most valuable commodities a person can have. The victim is stripped of external friendships. They may substitute interactions within their own internal world as a way to substitute for this loss.
So I guess I'm jumping onto the Illuminati wagon with trainer101 and luv2skydive...