[MD] Back to the last static latch

[kgt83dr at yahoo.com]

Arlo wrote,
  
> Khaled, SA, Anyone else tuned in...
> 
> "The War on Illegal Immigration". It's coming.
> 
> What I am weary of over this sudden "we must defeat illegal immigration or
> America will be destroyed... by Saturday!" media blitz is the ongoing "fear,
> fear, fear" campaign, the manufactured crises that we jump from one to the
> next with, as if each and every week we need a new Boogeyman, a new
> Friday Night Horror Show to keep ourselves "tuned in" and afraid.
  
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I'm reminded of the line in the film Crash that speaks to people's overarching
need to connect with one another.  It's so strong that they unconcsiously
crash their cars into each other...for the drama.
  
I think it was Matt who identified the same but different phenomena here,
although he named it differently.
   
  
Kevin Perez
   

		
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