Re: RAT COLUMBINE

[Sharon MacMenamin <saoirse9@yahoo.com>]

Do you really think this can all be reduced to "high
> school sucks" and
> "boys will be boys"?

If it could all be reduced to "high school sucks", we'd see a LOT more
acts of carnage like the one we witnessed on Tuesday.  Actually, while
I'm surprised we don't see more such incidents, the fact that we don't
suggests that there are mechanisms in place that stop frustrated teens
from blowing away their tormentors.

It's been suggested that Klebold & Harris' actions were a "crime of
passion".  Isn't a crime of passion an action that takes place in the
heat of the moment?  Clearly not the case in Littleton.  It took a lot
of time and planning to assemble and plant all of those bombs.

As for "boys being boys", has anyone else noticed that this alleged
"trend" of students shooting students in U.S. high schools in the last
18 months has been perpetrated almost exclusively by males?  Does this
disturb anyone else on this list?

Just a few thoughts...

Sharon
Sacred Fool

--- josh@whirl-i-gig.com wrote:
> I don't know, Aileen, Revolution of the Goths? 
> Revenge of the Nerds?  This
> seems immature and reductive to me.  Isn't it our
> responsibility as adults
> and as artists to search for the complex truths
> behind and around and
> lurking in the shadows of the reductive and--as has
> already been
> established by Audie McCall--bad art perpretrated by
> these two Doomplayer
> kids?
> 
> Do you really think this can all be reduced to "high
> school sucks" and
> "boys will be boys"?
> 
> I don't.
> 
> Josh Furst
> 
> 
> 

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