Summary of Mikel Jollett's Hollywood Park

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#1

I drop two classes and get put on academic probation. I meet some kids from Foothill College at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting off campus. I change my major from biology to history and psychology.

#2

The Game was a method of getting through the hardened defenses of drug addicts, similar to AA, but it was actually a form of brainwashing. It lasted days, sometimes entire weekends.

#3

I wonder about the kids in the orphanage, and where they are and what they’re doing. I wonder if they feel just as bewildered about their place in the world as I do.

#4

The theory of attachment states that we base our relationships on the attachments we form with our parents early in life. The children of Synanon, who were raised in a cult, may have experienced loneliness like shame, as they imagined the reason they were alone was because there was something wrong with them.