Sunday, March 2, 2008

The psychologist with which we speak spent months researching the various fashion districts in Japan. She was particularly drawn to the Harijuku district. With the goths slumming around the train station, the baby dolls hanging around the elitist shopping mall in d. town tokyo; she wondered why some youths felt the need for dressing up like electrified tropical fish? Her conclusions were that this was a backlash of being made to wear uniforms in schools for x amount of years and likened this color explosion to behavior patterns no different from Montana wolves who have endured long winters. With the coming of spring, it seemed that wolves are sometimes known to go on mass killing sprees. Killing livestock not for the purpose of eating but for the fact that well...they are wolves on display, being wolves. Is High School a long winter? If pushed to one extreme do we not violently swing in the other direction like mad pendulums bent on breaking the clock?

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