Grease depicts what is called the subjugation schema in Jeffrey Young’s Schema Therapy.Give up your core Self identity to please someone: a parent, a family, a partner or lover, a boss, an employer, an institution or organisation, a religious entity, a military, a public service entity, or a government.

A counterpoint that also critiques anomie (Emile Durkheim):Also giving up your identity to just buy things that you don’t need:Just forget who you are; be totally compliant; follow every “lawful instruction” (“please just get on this nice, new Metro Train that will take you to the new opportunities that will await you with the Tyrell Corporation, the Weyland-Yutani Company, the Gotham city-headquartered Wayne Enterprises; New-Path Clinics (which has moved from its old supplier of Soylent Green to its new, innovative FDA/TGA approved biopharmaceutical drug with the street name “Substance D”); Gattaca Genetics, and Keyser Soze & Associates in the Offworld Colonies - and the train buffet called Alice’s Restaurant has affordable vegan food - “You can always get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant”); and don’t have an independent or contrarian or divergent or scholarly/evidence-informed/“lived experience” opinion:Bail out the banks, loan art to the churches:And the “backstage” more private, reflective, and even mournful space of unflinching self-honesty:Just obey:“Never obey in advance.”Grease was the favourite film of my high school drama teacher Kirsten Jacobs. Thank you Kirsten. Here is a play where I was the Jury Foreman that Kirsten directed; which affected us all greatly during the rehearsal “process” and the performances; and which has directly inspired United States Supreme Court associate justice Sonia Sotomayor to echo Metallica and promote “Liberty and Justice For All” - like Snyder and Franti above, dare to be the sole person who “speaks truth to power” if necessary:The PMRC Senate hearings which mentor @HowardxBloom also bravely fought with his Music In Action group are a masterclass: