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Oh Kaufmo...
>Pomni: Wh- I- mmm... you reached out to me, not the other way around. You're just gonna pretend that didn't happen?
>Jax: You must be misremembering.
>Pomni: Is this why you didn't show up to Kaufmo's funeral?
>Jax: I don't show up to ANY funerals.
>Pomni: Yeah, I bet you don't, because you're scared. Y-You're scared you'll actually show a human emotion.
>Jax: I'm scared I'll be BORED to TEARS.
>Pomni: Have you ever thought that this might be what causes people to abstract in the first place?
>Jax: (bitter laugh) Oh my GOD! Are you seriously gonna blame me for something that everybody else did too?! You didn't even know him! You don't even know what people are LIKE before they abstract! They are NOT pleasant to be around. Like AT ALL! You-
Jax is completely misunderstanding what Pomni is getting at here. She's asking if he thinks people abstract because they start dehumanizing themselves, but Jax feels guilty, so he takes her words to mean something like an accusation that his behavior, that him treating other people inhumanly, is what causes them to abstract. And he says everyone else did that too. So that begs the question. Why did everyone isolate Kaufmo like that, anyway? I don't know if it's just pilot weirdness from before Goose got help writing from real humans, but you really get the feeling everyone didn't care about Kaufmo much at all and didn't really seem too sad to see him abstract, except *maybe* Gangle. They were more concerned what it meant for themselves, if that. The funeral at the end of Episode 2 seemed more like backtracking on how the pilot introduced things, like they realized while they were writing "wait, shit, we wrote everyone except Gangle like complete psychopaths." But I'm rambling, the point is, that funeral scene *did* establish that they all cared about Kaufmo, regardless of how the pilot was written, yet they *still* isolated him from the rest of them to the point where he gave up and abstracted. Why?