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Admittedly, this column only adds to the stream of post-Littleton opinion pieces, but my purpose here isn't to try to explain the events but rather to encourage us to examine the instincts that may draw us to these pundits. The sort of knee-jerk analysis practiced in the past two weeks simultaneously gratifies and disturbs many of us. On the one hand, many of us have a powerful instinct to both seek and supply grand, sweeping and satisfying answers in the wake of tragedy. Immediately following a dramatic national or local event, at the time of greatest emotional...
Your first instinct might be to reply with an air of moral superiority when you read such comments as, "If this were my fault in any way I'd be angry about it, but as it is, there's nothing I can do," as Andrew G. Eil 02 said in this Wednesday's Crimson. Perhaps you thought, "At least now you've learned the lesson that you need to back up all your files in the future." Don't feel guilty--even the victims of the virus must have had a fleeting thought to that effect...
This environment reporter's idea of interactive technology was to tap the computer case with a 12-in. adjustable-end wrench to correct vapor lock and improve e-mail reception. Mostly on instinct, he patrolled the environment outdoors and avoided the World Wide Web. The information superhighway vanished last year, he noticed, at least as an annoying metaphor, and maybe the World Wide Web would go away...
...film festival. Some may find the festival to be stereotypically feminine--its films focused more on personal relationships than anything else. The ultra-impatient and testosteronal would die, given this smorgasbord of subdued, thoughtful films. For those of you with a longer attention span and a stalker's instinct to observe and analyze women's lives and relate them to your own experiences, this film festival is for you--tune in next year...
...film festival. Some may find the festival to be stereotypically feminine--its films focused more on personal relationships than anything else. The ultra-impatient and testosteronal would die, given this smorgasbord of subdued, thoughtful films. For those of you with a longer attention span and a stalker's instinct to observe and analyze women's lives and relate them to your own experiences, this film festival is for you--tune in next year...