Highly stressed individuals, especially if they also physically ill, aren't known to be charming and graceful in conversation with younger court officials far below them in the hierarchy, even post retirement.
This is also an excellent point. The whole study on stress and hierarchy is that stressed middle managers being punched down on from above are more likely to transfer stress down. If not deliberately aggressively, then in an "OMG I'm losing my mind" frantic kind of way. Not be charmingly and gracefully chill.
I'm glad. I'm glad all the evidence points toward Fredersdorf getting to live his best life, at least insofar as the 18th century permitted. <3
See, cahn? He is zen! :D My perception of him is less zen in the beginning, when the only data he's got is "huge class differences" and "FW is a bloodthirsty maniac," and increasingly zen as time went on and he and Fritz got into a good mutual positive feedback loop.
Admittedly, there is another stress personality profile that I haven't mentioned, the "people-pleasing suffering-in-silence dying-inside" profile, and those people do end up gracious and charming to those below them and prone to stress-related disease, but it just doesn't seem to fit what we know of Fredersdorf's personality or situation.
EC would be a better fit, but I like to hope that, even if she was unhappy about the overall structure of her situation, her day-to-day Fritz-free life was calm and reasonably fulfilling. Maybe especially as time went on and she learned to adjust to it and build a life that didn't revolve around her disappointed hopes.
Re: Fredersdorf and stress
This is also an excellent point. The whole study on stress and hierarchy is that stressed middle managers being punched down on from above are more likely to transfer stress down. If not deliberately aggressively, then in an "OMG I'm losing my mind" frantic kind of way. Not be charmingly and gracefully chill.
I'm glad. I'm glad all the evidence points toward Fredersdorf getting to live his best life, at least insofar as the 18th century permitted. <3
See, cahn? He is zen! :D My perception of him is less zen in the beginning, when the only data he's got is "huge class differences" and "FW is a bloodthirsty maniac," and increasingly zen as time went on and he and Fritz got into a good mutual positive feedback loop.
Admittedly, there is another stress personality profile that I haven't mentioned, the "people-pleasing suffering-in-silence dying-inside" profile, and those people do end up gracious and charming to those below them and prone to stress-related disease, but it just doesn't seem to fit what we know of Fredersdorf's personality or situation.
EC would be a better fit, but I like to hope that, even if she was unhappy about the overall structure of her situation, her day-to-day Fritz-free life was calm and reasonably fulfilling. Maybe especially as time went on and she learned to adjust to it and build a life that didn't revolve around her disappointed hopes.