CASE STUDY 2: Rob and Corey
GOVERNMENT ISSUED ZOMBIES OF DESPAIR
CASE STUDY 2: Rob and Corey
GOVERNMENT ISSUED ZOMBIES OF DESPAIR
Corey was born deaf. His father discovered this by accident when at age 3 he did not react to a loud noise. Until then his parents believed Corey was retarded. Rob’s wife left him soon after that discovery. It was too much for her. They were poor and life was hard in Colorado.
Rob is a gifted mechanic. He is self-taught with a high IQ. He could easily have achieved a PhD in mechanical engineering and run the federal nuclear program or designed hypersonic weapons systems for Lockheed, so, unlike Ann this is exactly the kind of zombie the Deep State wants. He also keeps himself in a perpetual prison and will not leave even if the door is unlocked and left wide open. I know, I have tried to release both of these people. They live in a prison of high walls, and even if a cannonball blew one of the walls to pieces they would still see the wall there. They have eyes but cannot see reality. The only difference between attempting to reason with a low IQ zombie like Ann and a high IQ zombie like Rob is the level of vocabulary. The arguments are basically the same. They are both hopelessly unreasonable in their expectations.
Rob constructed his prison by chaining his identity to the Parent Ego State. Corey became his personal burden. Corey is now used as Rob’s excuse for failure in every way possible. They’ve both lived in a camper for a decade moving from state to state. Rob is followed by a felony record which involves assaulting 5 cops at once. These are the usual trumped up charges brought on by not going along with the system. When the beast system discovered Corey was deaf the social workers were overjoyed. They found fresh meat. They tried to operate on him, mangled his ears, and thereby made his deafness permanent. Then they offered to take him into the welfare system. After years of education he is still not able to read or write beyond a second grade level and he barely knows sign language. But he knows video games. He is addicted to video games like a heroin addict. If you leave him alone for 5 minutes you can be certain he is on his smart phone escaping reality deep in some Pac-Man like trance. He is in permanent Child Ego state.
His father was assaulted by the 5 state troopers while attempting to jail-break Corey from the Deep State control system and trying to get Corey’s attention by tossing his ipad out the window of his van within sight of a social worker (or at least that is the story).
Rob loves the role of exhausted firefighter. His noble excuse for his perpetual state of poverty is trying to be a parent in spite of overwhelming odds. While on the surface this may appear to be the truth he will sabotage any effort to extricate himself from the prison he lives in via nothing short of a comedy of errors.
THE ODD COUPLE
