It means living with a devious voice in my mind that whispers ugly thoughts and orders.
In Yo, el supremo, Roa Bastos is also fundamentally concerned with the power (and the weakness) of writing itself: its plot revolves around the dictator's efforts to uncover who has been forging his signature on a series of pasquinades discovered around the capital, and his relationship with his secretary, Patiño, to whom he dictates his thoughts and orders, but whom he never fully trusts.
But then he shook off the thought and ordered his second double latte.
The actor Daniel Pettrow, dressed as an orderly and mostly seated before a keyboard (which he appears to play, although much of the music, by Julia Meinwald, is recorded), is marvelously bossy as he incarnates Mr. Heginbotham's brain, offering stream-of-consciousness thought and ordering him about.
Boseman does a good job as Robinson, but since the movie doesn't delve much into Robinson's inner thoughts and his orders were to play hard, swallow the abuse, and never retaliate, the character doesn't develop much.
The other half played SPARX, a fantasy game where the subjects created avatars in order to squash "gloomy negative automatic thoughts," and restore order in the virtual world.
You might watch a Bond film in order to escape your thoughts, and "Synecdoche" in order to enter into them more deeply.
Instead, he endorsed a plan for the defense of Baghdad that essentially instructed his generals to talk with no one, think rousing thoughts, and await further orders.
When someone bullshits, or engages in a bull session, the speaker is understood to be trying out "various thoughts and attitudes in order to see how it feels to hear themselves saying things and in order to discover how others respond, without it being assumed that they are committed to what they say".
In talk therapy, the trend these days is cognitive-behavioral therapy, which teaches you to revise your thoughts and preconceptions in order to change the behavior that issues from them.
Renton agrees that "there is no electronic substitute for students talking together and exchanging thoughts and ideas in order to dissect them in the presence of a senior leader".
