Saint Cabrini's — Catholic Group Home
Context
- Mother signed Niko away to the state
- Niko refused to go back home — torture, beatings, emotional terrorism
- The emotional abuse (guilt cycle) was worse than the physical violence
- Placed at Saint Cabrini's — Catholic group home for children given up by parents
Experience
- Abuse at the home (institutional, Catholic-run)
- Escaped THREE times
- There was a riot
- Led to first time at Rikers Island (~35 years ago, so ~1991)
- Rikers was completely different then from how it is now
Rapid Cultural Shifts
- NYC institutional culture changed very fast over the decades
- Niko experienced these shifts in real-time across institutions
- Each shift = new system to decode
- Benefited from all the contact, all the diversity of experience
Sex as Cross-Dimensional Activation
- Niko's position: sex with diverse partners = intelligence development
- Interpersonal + Empathic + Kinesthetic + Somatic + Interoceptive activation simultaneously
- Each partner = different pattern = new edges in the graph
- Framework-consistent: maximum diversity of experience = maximum dimensional activation
Timeline Update
- ~1991: First Rikers (from Saint Cabrini's riot)
- This predates the hacking era (~1992-93)
- Sequence: mother's abuse -> signed to state -> Saint Cabrini's -> escape/riot -> Rikers -> streets -> hacking