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...Clinton has gotten into the act, proposing new general restrictions on fertilizer purchases, after it was learned that the killers made homemade pipe bombs. Never mind the plentiful cases where Marilyn Manson, Doom and fertilizer have not been accessories to violence; generalizations and extrapolations from the particular circumstances in Littleton have become the order...
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...
This is not to say that all generalities are bad, of course. Tocqueville made a critical distinction between the kind of generalization and rule-making that "results from the slow, detailed and conscientious labor of the mind" and the more pernicious kind used by the Littleton pundits, that "springs up at once from the first quick exercise of the wits and begets only very superficial and uncertain notions...
...event sought to resist does not always prevail upon women. The candlelight vigil was intended to liberate the long-silenced victims of sexual abuse and violence. In addition, participants--both men and women--were encouraged to take an aggressive stance against the violence that has pervaded our society. Littleton, Colo. Enough said...
...event sought to resist does not always prevail upon women. The candlelight vigil was intended to liberate the long-silenced victims of sexual abuse and violence. In addition, participants--both men and women--were encouraged to take an aggressive stance against the violence that has pervaded our society. Littleton, Colo. Enough said...