Paradise Drive activity

[Kelena]

I have to agree, Green. I first noticed this after 9/11 when we had such a graphic depiction of large scale violence. I started noticing how many movies and television shows depicted people falling, being stabbed, having a gun pointed at them, getting raped, and murdered sometimes in spectacular and graphic ways. I couldn't watch that stuff anymore. If you watch television for a few hours, someone's gonna get a gun pulled on them. And yet we think nothing of this poison and are blind to any long term effect this may have on our society. After Katrina, I hoped that the United States would consider giving Louisiana back to the much maligned French. I mean, if you are not using, give it someone who will. If they had, New Orleans would have a levee, the public schools would be top notch and crime and poverty would be a thing of the past. Louisiana would also have really, really boring television with documentaries about the postal service.....and not so many people committing mayhem and murder for our entertainment.

This guy in HPP didn't commit the crime because he watched too much coarse television,of course, but I am convinced that our appetite for salaciousness and violence have a cumulative effect on our society that together with other factors makes us the most violent developed nation on Earth next to Brazil.

All that being said, just living in HPP is much less dangerous than going in the water at Kehena Beach in the summertime. And that activity is a thousand times less dangerous than an activity I engage in every day after work: Driving Home on Highway 5 in Southern California.