thoughts on Dukat and Garak both believing what they’re told, and on the past as a poisoned cookie

(Aka: cosmictuesdays is on fire tonight.)

Hannah (cosmictuesdays): This reminds me how part of Dukat’s tragedy is he can’t separate himself from the narrative he’s crafted.
peach: yusssss.
peach: ahh?
Hannah (cosmictuesdays): The Bajorans didn’t care about him; they’d have attacked ANY Cardassian prefect of Bajor.
Hannah (cosmictuesdays): Dukat took it personally.
peach: mmm. that’s true.
Hannah (cosmictuesdays): Someone else - who might in fact have abolished child labor and suchlike - would have been able to see that. How it’s not about the individual so much as it is the position. Sure, they’d have been angry about it, but they’d have seen it’s not them specifically.