Ok this might sound stupid but whatever its on my squirley little head. I was watching the Wire with the creators coments last night and David Simon was explaining how the show had some really interesting social comentary and themes. Alot of the show has to do with how people exist, and parelell each other, within the many instituions we have in modern urban landscape. So that could be a police department, newspaper, union, street gang, school whatever. Well he said it much more profoundly than me but whatever you get the condensed Rabid version.

Anyhow, this got me thinking of what kind of themes there were in the Crack Den and I'm sure there are many. Now the one I have come up with is based on my own perception of the den which I guess i need to share to creat the context. I see the den as actually existing in the Desire hood of New Orleans or in the lower Ninth Ward.

New Orleans is without doubt the MOST disinfranchised city in Ameria. When Orleans is in devestating crisis no aid comes, people are left to die horificly, even prior to Katrina the murder rate, low funding everything proved that those in Orleans are a trully forgoten people. There like the Rez of the Gulf. So how i see one of the themes that runs thru the den is how do a marginilized people survive and exert social control on themselves. It has little to do with formal laws but there are codes and and rules and consequences. Also there is a hierarchy that exists as fragile as it is without it there would be chaos.

Anyhow, since I can't be the only geek who thinks on shit like this I was wondering what other people saw as the important themes running thru the den.