Posted by RoTtEn ApPlE on July 26, 2001 at 17:36:30:
In Reply to: Re: Just some stuff posted by Laszlo on July 26, 2001 at 00:45:10:
: : Let's talk about the enneagram... um, well... sort of an old topic and nothing's coming to mind... but dammit I have the drive to start a thread today.
: : How about a travelogue?
: : Two weeks now in Hawaii... two weeks of waterfalls, beaches, sushi bars, movies, expensive groceries, Japanese tourists walking alongside Arkansas trailer folk, and sleeping on a sofa in a little old apartment surrounded by modern high rises, waking up every morning to the sounds of the neighbor laughing unrestrained like a Polynesian Santa Claus (even at 7AM I manage to feel amused). This is a GREAT place.
: : Just went to answer the door... my computer FINALLY arrived! Oh, and I talked to my old company in California this morning and they are begging me to do some work for them on my own terms. Shit, life is soooooooo sweet. Such a poem.
: : Anyhow, I met a social worker out here the other day and had an interesting conversation about the interview process when screening people to receive government aid from child services (and also covertly screening for signs of child abuse and mental illness). I think this social worker was probably an ENFP 2w1... but a surprisingly shrewd and rational one... yet still FULL of passionate empathy and desire to educate parents and change things. Very interesting listening to her talk about a mentally ill woman who would never see the baby she had just given birth too. Retelling the interview and how the woman couldn't even follow a conversation, was addicted to cocaine, and had already had two babies taken by child services at birth.
: : Enough small talk, ya.
: : Liz
: Gossipy.
Yeah, you've got me pegged. I'm such a gossip. (Shit, reduced to sarcasm...)
Anyway, Laszlo, since you've decided to particapate in my thread how about an exchange of serious thought? Up to it? The thing that blows me away about this, besides the fact that it's so far removed from my day to day experiences, is the cyclical nature of behavior and how there is no intervention to address the core problem. This woman will keep taking drugs, getting pregnant, and having babies she is UNABLE to care for. Doesn't it seem like it would be a better deal in the long run for the state to institutionalize such a person? Should they even consider sterilizing such a person?