Letting one's hair down in public is OK for more and more people On an individual and therefore societal level, you can see the process of total transparency. We are educated to view this as a cleansing process, to open the inner-most parts of ourselves to the outside. Talk shows and reality-based TV make us believe that it is right to talk about the intimate details of your life in front of a camera, to make your whole life transparent and public. We find nothing unusual in the fact that paparazzi cover the lives of prominent people, because the lives of well-known people are of public interest. A society that is educated to watch and be passive, instead of being active, not only accepts surveillance, reality-TV and paparazzi, but also develops other kinds of neurotic wishes for transparency.
People commit spectacular murders simply to appear in the news.
Young kids produce blood-baths to make their parents, teachers and everybody else look at their lives. Since their founding three years ago, the SCP have become more transparent, with the aim, of course, of making their actions clearer and easier to understand. They have learned to shift their main focus to exposing and explaining the problem. This concept has worked. More and more people know and hear about the SCP, more than the group could have reached with their plays alone.