engl130team5: The Placebo Root

engl130team5: The Placebo Root:         Have you ever heard the story of some frat that was given kegs full on non-alcoholic beer, but were unaware of it?  Well, the memb...



So for some reason I can't actually post comments under the actual blog posts, so here is my comment in response to this post and I'll probably end up continuing to do this until I figure out why technology hates me so much :(



I was thinking similar things during your presentation yesterday. I feel like it's kind of like in The Big Bang Theory how Raj can only talk to women when he's drunk. There's one episode when all the characters are on a train and Raj is drinking non-alcoholic beer (though he doesn't realize it), so he's able to talk to this woman that all the main guys are interested in - until Howard points out that it's non-alcoholic beer. When he realizes this, he freezes up and can;t talk to the girl anymore even though he could before.

I think it may be a similar case with Douglass. I also believe there were other factors that played into his standing up to Mr. Covey, but I think the possibility of the root working gave him the little boost he needed to do what he needed to do. It then makes me wonder if anything after that incident would have happened if he had not been given the root or if it was one of those things that would have happened no matter what - like if it wasn't the root, it would have been something else like a pebble.

The discussion on this point yesterday also made me think for a moment if it was a literal root from the ground or if Douglass was using that as a different name for something else kind of like how he skipped over the exact details of his escape to protect others.