Yes, I vaguely remember, during college certain students would be summoned to a Christmas meeting jointly with some people from the La Puente school, which is a place for foreign students. So that was uncomfortable, but some of us were perhaps not yet ready to extricate ourselves so completely from these social obligations that we felt ourselves compelled to comply with at the moment due to the strategies and plans of Barbara. Sometimes it is only later that we figure out that this is not working to our benefit, and find other less vociferous and obstreperous ways to reorient our thinking, but anyway, what is that to you? You were never in that position to start with so you would not really understand how complicated and dangerous it might be to try to turn off that system. If I were talking the way that you talk, I would just be dismissed as an idiot, so, ok, fine. Whatever you want. I can't win for losing anyway.
