The Longest Now

I was at MacLean Hospital last week, and they have a magnificent campus for inpatient mental health… my goodness.  The funding crunch taking place within their glorious buildings on their beautiful property seemed wildly out of place.  But I want to talk about the way asylums deal with communication barriers, over time and without the obstacles of rancor or the possibility of misunderstandings being (depending on the context) considered active/intentional/partisan.