[MD] Back to the last static latch

[Heather Perella]

Hello Kevin,

> 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.
>   
> <snip>
>   
> 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.

     Yes, the drama.  That's what we call the whole
scene on the troubled youth campus I work at.  The
girls themselves call it drama as well.  When they
discuss in groups they encourage each other at times
to 'not get caught up in the drama'.  Some of these
girls may want to go home, but they don't think about
home as much as I would like them to.  They continue
onward with the problems and behaviors that brought
them to the campus and focus too much on each other. 
They create more problems and seek attention at times.
 They don't understand that we will not allow them to
go home while they act this way.  
     I have said to them at times, "You don't want to
go home."  They say they do, but meanwhile they don't
think about home, they think about each other, and
like to spread rumors and gossip about all the
negative actions going on.  They have no solutions. 
They are loud and their voices at times elevate more
and more to be louder than the next person.  They get
caught up into a frenzy talking about negative things
at times on the campus and at times this works
themselves up into uncontrollable, intellectually
lost, non-thinking just reacting social actors.  They
get caught in the drama, and are sucked into the
social life on campus without focusing on being
positive and getting the heck out of the place.
     They could be gone in 3-4 months, but many focus
so much on the social life and their intellects bleep
in and out at very wide intervals that it becomes a
question of what will they wear, who will they talk
to, or how defiant can they be to get away from doing
what they ought to be doing, which is focusing on
doing what they need to do to go home.  It takes many
6-7 months to leave, and some over a year.  They don't
like being at the campus, but I sometimes wonder if
they only say that, but really deep down they really
do like being there.  Some like the drama.  Why?  They
say its' fun.  

SA 

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