This morning’s Dayton Daily News had a page length article on street takeovers, focusing on the response of state lawmakers to the problem. In Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere, there are now significant penalties if one is caught while doing this activity, and more severe punishments if someone is hurt while doing this.
And while the matter of social media is linked to this collective behavior, there were no reasons given for why this has happened. during the past several years, outside of the Covid shutdown. Why? There is a discernible strain of of defiance to the law that has emboldened young people to act out in at times dangerous ways. Or is it because your people are bored, frustrated, isolated in deeply life, angry at a society that restrains them but in reality does not nurture them? Is it perhaps a use of technology that is decidedly autonomous as we are losing are freedom on step at a time. And this is away to lash out, to regain freedom in an age of limits and boundaries?
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