So here are things: when policedudes approach you shining a bright light in your eyes it’s not incompetence or even malice, it’s a trick because normally you’ll put your hands up to block the light and there they can tell you’re unarmed.

Like in military basic training, all the regulations on squaring up your bedsheets and locker each morning. You’re not supposed to do it! The whole point is to establish an unrealizable standard so that each day can begin with belittlement and punishment and a sense of inferiority. Conditioning!

The officers who in the field actually try to apply that shit, or the veterans to their kids: either they didn’t really understand the concept, or else they understood it too well.