Word: instantness
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...generation ago, the social critic Christopher Lasch diagnosed narcissism as the signal disorder of contemporary American culture. The cult of celebrity, the marketing of instant gratification, skepticism toward moral codes and the politics of victimhood were signs of a society regressing toward the infant stage. You don't have to buy Freud's explanation or Lasch's indictment, however, to see an immediate danger in the way we examine the lives of mass killers. Earnestly and honestly, detectives and journalists dig up apparent clues and weave them into a sort of explanation. In the days after Columbine, for example, Harris...
...popped up on the campus police radar screen on Nov. 27, 2005, when a female student reported that Cho had made annoying contact with her through the phone and in person. While she declined to press charges, another student soon complained of his instant messages. After police investigated, an acquaintance alerted them that Cho might be suicidal. When police returned and questioned him further, they asked that he agree to see a counselor...
...should see a higher proportion of undergraduate courses with lively and unspecialized content, taught using creative instructional methods. Especially as we develop new and revised offerings for general education, we must not rush. If faculty are in a hurry to get their courses certified, and if students demand instant and infinitely flexible menus of offerings, established courses will just be relabeled, providing little improvement in content or pedagogy...
...Markell said the salesman ran an instant background check through the Virginia State police computer system, which also checks federal records. He added that he and his salesmen look for odd behavior. "You can't believe how much we screen people," he said. "We look to see people that are coming in to buy guns. Somebody that ducks behind a stand and starts whispering to somebody else he's with, we're not likely to deal with...
Coming from Virginia, I know dozens of students at Tech. I found out about the attack from a flurry of online instant messagers most to the effect of “This is so fucked up…are you following this?” I scrambled to contact everyone I knew, even people with whom I had lost touch...