Ecco Park a review. Part one Addictive personality.
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Addictive
Personality - Echo Park | Podcast on Spotify
This is a podcast that I will be covering on the Blog and YouTube channels. It’s quite an interesting podcast to listen to and it is in the thriller genre. I like it because it harks back to the days of the old school radio plays and you had to wait till the next week to find out what happened.
It is set in the future where human clones have been given
their human rights and I find this interesting that it’s clones that have human
rights, this infers that most other oppressed groups have been given their rights as well, however, at times in today's society we see that they don’t have
human rights and most countries only respect them on paper, not in practice.
It focuses on when a clone meets his “source,” so we see
that the clones have their own language and culture and that this is respected
by the establishment. However, we see that people are mixed on both sides about
the clones and them having rights.
This is a very complex issue to unpack and we need to be
aware that this could be looked at in several ways. It could be seen as indigenous
peoples and reparations, or in my case, I am choosing to look at it in the
context of disability and the oppression of people with disabilities as when
you look at any “diverse workplace,” the person that is missing in that photo
is a person with a disability.
It is something that we need to work on as it is assumed
that you are lazy, don’t want to work or accommodations for a disability would be
too hard. However, these are all wrong
assumptions and accommodations can easily be worked around however if it is a
health and safety issue. I do totally understand that.
We can see that the clones have their own culture that Terri’s
source tries to respect and understand, we see that it stems from the retreat
however in later episodes we see that due to attitudes and allocation of funds
we see that not everyone agrees with the clones having human rights.
As it is USA based we see that Terri’s source James is a freelancer
for the LAPD ( a police department he is a police watchdog) we also see that
he is a drug addict and uses Terri’s urine to pass his drug tests ( not
something that I would ever advise I always say be honest with the people who
care about you) However it does bring up
a good point about the laws around drug usage not being up with the times and
many legal medications can be abused as well.
So it goes into the complexity of drug addiction as well,
and how he got drug addicted to cope with his life. This shows that he is under a lot of stress
and that this stress needs to be dealt with it shows that some ways of
coping with stress are healthier than others and this is something that we need
to be aware of as well. So looking at this in the context of disability we see
that he is trying to be respectful but ends up using his source unintentionally.
This is so true of people with a disability that we see that
people who are well-intentioned, but woefully ignorant of what disabilities end up doing more harm than good. So we find that the person with a disability wants
to be useful and therefore is at risk of being abused in their goodwill. So it
is so important to teach people with disability boundaries.
However, the podcast is exploring a lot of different and
complex issues in a way that crosses boundaries as well. I like the fact that it
shows the conflict within the Ecco communities and it shows the resentment from the source that their tax money is going towards their Eccos. This is a very
complex thing to see and we see that people know that it can’t be easily done
as well. This is very much similar to able-bodied people resenting the NDIS due to the misuse of funds meant to improve
the lives of people with a disability.
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