Word: mindlessness
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...that idea will have to compete with the alternatives that young rebels have already devised?the drug culture, group-marriage communes, "free universities"?many of them a courageous if mindless search for competence and humanity...
...know what part of that generation you were in, but my group was in college, desperately trying to get good grades, and all the time wondering whether we would go to Korea (remember Korea?) or the Berlin Wall. We kept our mouths shut and worked, not because we were mindless robots but because we were not stupidly arrogant enough to think that we knew better than persons with 20 years more experience in the world...
...Orange Order parades approached, Belfast's two warring tribes prepared for what is not only a national holiday but also an annual excuse - as if any were needed - for mindless bloodshed. In the Protestant working-class areas, houses and store fronts sported Union Jacks, freshly painted shields bearing the up raised Red Hand of Ulster and tacky portraits of "King Billy" of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne. On DESMOND BALL, a lean, tough machinery repairman who seems older than his 22 years, lives at the Protestant edge of the "peace line." Ball and his wife Maureen...
simply ruthlessly and senselessly exploiting the poor and the oppressed. The word "expansion" was then seized on as a slogan and chanted again and again in mindless fashion to confuse and defame, and beyond this, it was hoped, to impress the confused and by doing so to gain increased support...
Pusey warned that extremist radicals, and the mindless "self-styled moderates" who back them up, are using distortion and misrepresentation designed to magnify indignation and sow distrust." From this, Pusey has sadly come to see that what moves student politics is the drunken aura of power. That greatest scourge of academia, popular anti-intellectualism, is again, as in the time of Joe McGarthy, panting and slobbering. Most frightening of all, it is coming not from smelly old Washington, but from "in our midst...