The Hart family crash tragedy is full of social and political complexities. On the one hand, we have a poster family for progressive interracial child rearing, at least according to many admiring friends. On the other, we have neighbors with reason to believe child abuse by the poster parents. We have the parents bombarded with hate mail for issues of sexuality and race.
Now initial investigators from the Highway Patrol suggest an intentional crash. The vehicle came to a complete stop, then accelerated over the cliff. An image from Thelma and Louise.
Did one or both of the parents have a martyr complex? Righteous suicide?
Whatever it is, why involve the kids?
I am reminded of Korzybski: the map is not the territory. Our social lives are constructed maps. The images we present. The reality of ourselves can be very different.
Now initial investigators from the Highway Patrol suggest an intentional crash. The vehicle came to a complete stop, then accelerated over the cliff. An image from Thelma and Louise.
Did one or both of the parents have a martyr complex? Righteous suicide?
Whatever it is, why involve the kids?
I am reminded of Korzybski: the map is not the territory. Our social lives are constructed maps. The images we present. The reality of ourselves can be very different.
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