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Saw a bit of the documentary about the troubled teens in Flint, sobel. Found it hard to work out what had actually gone on. Most of the chapos were fairly lumpen, unsympathetic, and seemed self-obsessed and desperate enough to have perpetrated a horribly scary scam on the poor "victim". But then, there were lots of moments where I could buy the opposite point of view put, that the female "victim" had been wise to it all and some disappointed adolescent crush on the ring-leader had stimulated her subsequent protests. I ended up thinking "a plague on both their houses".
As for the question about building a hierarchy, I don't think there's anything new under the sun in that business. It will always be the Law of the Jungle, tempered in larger societies with written histories and mass communications by a common acceptance of a degree of altruism. |
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