Word: mindlessness
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...doing without its SUVs. Strange, then, that the first live bullets used in the wave of recent protests against global capitalism should have been fired not in Seattle or Washington but in peace-loving, tree-hugging, social-democratic Scandinavia. Americans, it turns out, do not have a monopoly on mindless violence, nor Europeans one on the Cartesian application of enlightened reason to the great issues...
...tyranny because the Nazis had taken over most of Europe and, with the aid of their Japanese allies, were set on nothing short of total world domination. Every American, in or out of the service, was keenly aware of this. To say the U.S. fighting forces were exhibiting only "mindless personal courage" because they were not aware of the plight of the Jews is an insult. If there had been no Holocaust, and the Allies had "only" vanquished the Third Reich, would the war have been any less "good"? CHRISTIAN WIESSNER Glen Rock...
...doing. That came later, at war's end, when the death camps were liberated, and the ghastly pictures began appearing. Heroism, one thinks, must include self-, social and perhaps world consciousness if it is to have a vivid picture of the evil it opposes. Otherwise we're just talking mindless personal courage, which exists equally on both sides in any war at any time in history...
...person communication: when asked in Gallup polls, 90 percent of Americans say they would not give up their commutes if given the choice. Much like runners and swimmers and cyclists claim to accomplish their deep thinking while lost in the automatic motions of exercise, driving allows a mindless, purposeful action to take place in a seemingly private setting, creating the optimal environment for deep thought to occur...
...underpinned by an admirable powerful-grrl ethic. Rachael Leigh Cook’s eyes sparkle with charisma as bandleader Josie, Tara Reid makes an agreeably ditsy Melody, and Reid’s boyfriend Carson Daly parodies the hand that feeds him. Is Josie a signal of the end of mindless pop music and culture? Probably not, but as supposedly disposable movie fluff it’s savvier than it has any right...