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Star may or may not be aware that his thesis about nihilism destroying the African-American community through negativity, such as hard-core rap, is consistent with a body of literature in social theory (See the work of Professor Cornel West '74). I contend that Star's myopic perspective prevents him from realizing that all groups in American society exhibit nihilistic tendencies. To single out the African-American condition as somehow different and irrational ignores volumes of comparable data on mainstream society...
...begins with her eyesight, which is myopic at best. She finds, to her horror, that the Nautilus machines are brown. An outrage even if it weren't true, which it isn't! The machines are clearly black, though I'm sure she would never deign to get close enough to them either to use them or to study their pigmentation. She finds newspapers near the stairmasters and stationary bikes, and as if that weren't the last straw, she finds no treadmills to set trash down next to. Although, as she says (and I believe her) health clubs across...
Even if we accept the amoral premise of this foreign policy, neoisolationists are myopic in their understanding of American security. The war in Bosnia will never reach America's shores, but American leadership can define the norms of international conduct that will regulate the future relations among states. During the Cold War, the Western powers achieved an unprecedented degree of international cooperation through the NATO alliance. We must now continue this cooperation in establishing the Alliance as a guarantor of European security...
...Dole proved last week. With his myopic focus on New Hampshire's gun-loving Republican voters (the primary's only nine months away), Dole had originally brushed aside the N.R.A. letter. They need "a little image-repair job," he said. So Dole's embrace of the N.R.A.'s "apology" as "the right thing" to have done is hardly surprising. "We're where the N.R.A. itself is right now," concedes a Dole adviser. "The sooner this mess is off the radar screen, the sooner they can go back to raising money and we can get on with running for President...
...school, what sorts of people deserve our compassion and what means we can use to defend ourselves from criminals. Learning that there are more important things than the national government is the first step in taking back control of our lives. Altman may think this view myopic; the "passive" nation he writes about wishes people like altman would quit trying so hard to look over our fences, into our schools, churches and homes...