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...Vice President's hunting accident occasioned a familiar explosion of public inanity. We seem to have a primal need for these circuses; they are the postmodern equivalent of scapegoat sacrifice. There was the embarrassing, self-righteous reportorial melee in the White House pressroom. There was the predictable patter of late-night comedians, although the jokes didn't seem quite so funny this time; a man had been shot. There were the cable-news shouting sprees, most of which had to do with the public relations process-Had Cheney erred in not informing the press immediately?-rather than the substance...
...reveal a deeper lesson. The stories are ancillary to Tucker Max himself, the man who stands up and acts where the rest of us sit and dream or masturbate. In the face of everything around him—social norms, ugly girls, stupid people, law firms, hotel employees, self-righteous d-bags, the very limits of human existence—Max has striven to break through boundaries and has sought to stake a claim for himself as a human being you may try to go over but never around. Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue brings us the famous Athenian claim...
Harvard’s Republicans today are much like the hippies of the ’60s: both love to see themselves as provocateurs of convention, and both revel in the coolness of their dissent. They disperse in a righteous flurry of t-shirt making, protests, and campaigning, all with truly touching outrage...
...easy for people to get riled up. And when someone insults something that they are either self-conscious, self-righteous or insecure about, the knee-jerk reaction is to become indignant. Down with t-shirts that make fun of my race! Shame on them for using humor I do not find funny! But what it comes down to, upon closer inspection, or even any kind of rational thought, is that one cannot find any offensive intent on the part of Spencer’s. They may be making shirts that just aren’t funny, and are clearly...
...took the righteous outrage of a peer––one of the few who actually belongs here with me––at dinner a few weeks ago to shake me from my mindless complacency. Remarking on an A she received on an “incredibly easy” Expos paper she’d just written, she intimated to me that the class’ average grade of C-plus boggled her supremely apt mind. “Everyone here’s just so stupid!” she declared, brimming with...