the mentoring hour repurposed as drug pedagogy — "This is supposed to be a…"
This is supposed to be a pre-dinner ‘Big Buddy’ powwow, where the littler kids receive general big-brotherly-type support and counsel from an upperclassman.
Context
Expertise as a form of devotion: the dosing math and the potency comparison delivered from memory, "not reading or referring to notes in any way," to a floor of glassy-eyed ten-year-olds who are supposed to be receiving big-brotherly counsel. The institutional channel built for mentoring has been quietly redirected into a chemistry seminar, love of the material standing in for anything a Big Buddy is meant to pass down.