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One Love
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Posted 4/17/2007 1:23 PM (GMT -6)

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/now_do_you_unde.html

feelinahole
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Posted 4/17/2007 11:52 PM (GMT -6)

Well, of course. It pretty much ain't news unless an american gets offed.

might-be-don
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Posted 4/18/2007 8:54 AM (GMT -6)

Oddly, one of the first thoughts I had was the daily violent death going on in Iraq.

we need peace, don

^{The world's perfect, wouldn't change a thing.}

Tom
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Posted 4/18/2007 9:54 AM (GMT -6)

True, Iraq is a daily parade of VA Tech's. Then there's Darfur. It's the whole influence of context upon perceptions again. Joshua Bell plays a violin piece that only a handful of people in the world can play well, but it plays it in a D.C. Subway. Nobody notices. He plays it in a concert hall wearing a tux and people applaud.

The response ot VA Tech isn't bad. We should grieve. It's just that the same horrible thing happens every day around the world somewhere and we don't grieve. That would be OK if our failure to perceive equal suffering elsewhere was out of our control. But it's not. We know such things are happening, we just choose not to engage them on an affective level. We don't aestheticize them.

Tom

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