"Well, the problem is that most people have trouble getting hysterically worked up about the importance of being a functional member of society, so that is not where you get maximum sorcerous power-output. I'd dearly love to live in a universe where people could go into complete histrionics about, say, the importance of good ops skills and basic organizational logistics, and those were the people who ended up ruling continents. That is not, actually, the world that we live in."
"And yeah, lot of people ask to go to dramatic prison and then turn out to not be able to get worked up in the right way to recharge a lightline. This is not an issue that I would say the Farm deals with in an optimal fashion. The present system is founded on the deep and abiding conviction that every criminal fits into one of three buckets, or four if you count lewd dramatic. If you aren't a perfect inmate according to any of those three buckets, fuck you."