Hal's Big-Buddy sermon on loneliness and manufactured community

texture · YDAU, 3 Nov

• When: 3 Nov YDAU (2009), post-dinner Big Buddy session, V.R.6
• What: Leading his Little Buddies, Hal argues E.T.A.'s cruelty is engineered — the staff manufactures a "common enemy" so the players' shared suffering produces community against their axiomatic aloneness ("we're each deeply alone here… In a nutshell, what we're talking about here is loneliness"). "Sometimes he finds out he believes something that he doesn't even know he believed until it exits his mouth." Documents Hal's articulate inner life and his communication-solipsism worldview — poignant against his coming muteness.