They get tired of reading my objections and my threats, so they give me a paralytic and blindfold me. Now I’m just talking to myself in the dark. They can still read what I’m thinking, but now that I can’t see the reaction it’s a lot less satisfying thinking bad thoughts at them. And I can’t tell: perhaps they’ve also shut down the feed from my speech centres and I’m just wittering away to myself. That would be annoying. I dislike futility and helplessness.