Ecco Park a review and looking at the links to disablity culture.
4. Hero Complex
- Echo Park | Podcast on Spotify
So this is a really interesting podcast and I am getting into
it. To me, it harks back to the days of the old school radio plays, that we see
had great writing and this does as well. We are seeing what can only be considered
to be culture clashes and a lack of understanding of the culture that the
clones live in.
We see that James discovers that Terrence has been hiding things
from him just like he is hiding things from Terrance. I see that this is an interesting
issue because their relationship was always based on a mutual understanding’s situation.
But we see that there is conflict when there
isn’t all the information put on the table.
It does become a transactional relationship and this does
put a strain on things in the relationship as James is essentially using his
clone to keep his job as he is an addict, it’s a way of him “checking out of
his life,” I see that it would be much better to deal with the situation he is
in but he has no escape so the drugs are a way of escaping and we see that this
can lead him to bad decisions as we see that James doesn’t want to admit that
he has harmed Terrance and the clones life’s by becoming involved in there
lives.
However this is just the start of the issues with the city
and we see that there is a “ brute force” method taken in a way that we see,
that there is not a lot of police cooperation due to the crime rates and it is
mostly cracking down on the clones and not getting to the bottom of what is
causing the spike in clone murders. [i]
James sees that Terrance’s attitude towards him becomes much
more like his father than he would like to admit, and we see that Terrance was
using him just as much as James was using Terrance, as we see that people are starting
to trust James but they know what is happening and a section of the clone
community want to take over the sources’ lives and kill their sources.
There is also I see a lot of confirmation bias in this and
they see this as a good thing however this limits what the police can do and we
see that they don’t care about the clones, they just want to live in an area
that is free from surveillance.
However we see that the clones missed out on basic life
skills due to the way that they grew up and were told what is best for them,
this is quite similar to some people with disabilities as they grow up people
dictate their lives for them and if they “act out,” we see that they are suppressed
more.
Acting out in people with disabilities is more complex as behavior
is a form of communication and this often means that they aren’t getting a lot of
their needs met in positive ways so they are acting out, due to the suppression
of their emotions.
However, when we file this narrative and ask what needs aren’t
getting met in a positive way we start to see positive change, this is where things
like positive behavior support are important. [ii]
we also start to see community acceptance of people with a disability a lot more
and this is a big thing as well.
In linking this back to the podcast we see that the clones
have formed their own culture and that James doesn’t seem to see that he will
always be an outsider, and we see that this is an issue due to him having a clone,
so it at first was easier to pass as a clone, however now it’s not and we see
this in people with hidden disabilities and we see that this is very much
masking, and it does take a toll on the person.
However we see that at times this does serve people with disabilities, well but I hope to see that we can change it as sometimes a mask does serve us but at other times we see that society does need to change.
It does leave a lot unanswered and we see that this is similar to real life at times as there isn't an easy answer to most things about life, and growing up, and we see that growing up at the retreat wasn't easy and we see that this isn't discussed but it is very much implied.
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