When you're in, You're in, When you're not, You're not.

As I mentioned before, I always tell my students to give speeches on things they know and care about. What I failed to mention that sometimes this can be a problem because they know SO much on the topic and care SO much about it, that their ability to explain it in a simple, coherent fashion, can fail.

I think that's where I found myself at in the latter part of this project/video building, because there were so many things I wanted to say and include and talk about, trying to condense that into a video that was under ten minutes felt impossible. When the class would say "but why does that matter?" or "why do we need to talk about why debate is good?" I had a really hard time coming to terms with it, until my teacher said "You're too far in."

He was/is totally right- because when you're a part of a community, especially one that is so insulated and less well known to others, that to explain it to those who aren't in it, is next to impossible. All you can do is try to tell the best you can what you want, and walk away. What I realized was that there were so many stories and elements to what I was talking about, that as much as I want to scream "BUT DEBATE HELPS PEOPLE" I had to recognize that for the sake of the video and it's placement in the larger project we're constructing about the effect of cameras/little glass dots in society and the subsequent videos online, that wasn't as relevant to the end point.

So I have a video (some work is needed to polish it) that explains how our community is a family, that is misunderstood to outsiders, and probably always will be; that got its 15 minutes of fame form a viral video that was not representative of the community, and all we can do is move forward, and know that at least we get each other.