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Probably they are referring to things like this snippet:

Recognising the importance of mapping suggests another way of looking at what has happened here. Mapping can certainly be reawakened by trauma. One possible way to traumatise a person might be to:

1. Nuke them. Twice.

2. Rip apart their rigid, predictable feudal society.

3. Tell them the invader will be coming around tomorrow.

4. Leave them nothing for supper.

To eat tonight, this person is going to have to reawaken his ability to be imaginative.




I see how this could upset some, but whether or not it is either empathetic or disrespectful is arguable.




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