I, Dave, Jack
and were in Jack’s office listening to him go on one of his ego trips
explaining his views of the world. One
thing was always true about Jack and his conversations. He was an extreme narcissist and if given an
opportunity he would brag. Just as I was
beginning to wonder why he had called me into his office, he began explaining
how the human mind tends to forget things if conditions are made unbearable
enough and that the brain secretes chemicals when under extreme stress so that
the person can forget traumatic experiences. As I sat there listening, my heart
began to race. Was that the purpose for all the harassment and irritations? Was
my time at Gamma Supplies supposed to be so unbearable that I wouldn’t know or
remember what had happened just to get my testimony? If that had been the
purpose, and had not been successful and what if they, whoever they were knew
that I could remember things what else would they do? As the thoughts raced
through my mind, I sat there thinking how arrogant and stupid Jack really was.
But more important to me, I wondered who was behind the whole plan and what
they were going to do to me next.
The reason i state
that Jack was stupid is because if you are going hire someone to set them up
for their testimony and then have them forget what happened you would think you
that they wouldn’t hire someone who is known for having an excellent memory.
From as early as I could remember; people recognized I had an exceptional
memory. As a young child in a Sunday school class, I was once asked to memorize
a couple of pages of dialogue for a Christmas play. The other people in the
class we given one or two lines to learn. I ended up going to a different
church because I felt I was being exploited just to make the teacher look good
in front of the congregation. In high school I had a good friend who became a
lawyer and we would often compete as to who could quickly memorize things like
the periodic table, mathematical proofs, and Shakespeare soliloquies.
Those are examples
of more short-term memory, but an example from graduate school gives credence
to the fact that I also had a good long-term memory. In graduate school we were
having a research group meeting when the research director posed a question
about a chemical reaction. I quickly blurted out that he could find the answer
in such and such book on a particular page. He asked me how I knew that and I
told him over a year earlier I had read the book and that’s where the
information he wanted could be found. The research director sent another
graduate student the chemistry library and had him find the book and bring it
back to the room. When the research director opened the book to the page I had
specified, he found exactly the information he wanted. Needless-to- say, the
research director acknowledged that I had an exceptional memory. Now I was being told a major strategy to get
my testimony, a viable product, and a patent was that I would not be able to
remember things. Only a very ignorant person or
a psychopath would devise such a plan.
Both are equally dangerous.