In America, sociologists and psychiatrists
In America, sociologists and psychiatrists who treat adolescents have lamented the rise in self-destructive acts among our teenagers: self-mutilation ("cutting"), anorexia, bulimia, and so forth. The youthful and conflicting urges to disapear and to be known result in some peculiar behavior, indeed.
But we live the good life here. In the Territories, the adolescent urges to disppear and to be known find expression with the strapping on of a fashionable belt made from high-grade explosives and with dead bodies scattered in a marketplace. You think American parents have problems with their teens? Read Elizabeth Rubin's Bethlehem Dispatch in the New Republic.
