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| 2014-06-20 13:26:01 by ALI NANA
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| 2014-06-27 12:48:31 by Roel
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| AriI've been waiting pnlteatiy for you to write about this scandal. And while I'm not totally surprised, I am a bit saddened by your cynicism. Of course the initial reaction is going to be outrage. How else can anyone react to a crime like this in any way but a visceral one? I do agree that much of the media response seems to be one-upping each other about how angry they are, but what is the alternative? To shrug their shoulders, say shit happens, then move on? I spent last weekend up to my eyeballs in comment wars on Facebook about the scandal, particularly in response to Charles P. Pierce's piece The Brutal Truth About Penn State. Much of the reaction was similar to yours, that the piece was yet another self-serving writer trying to say, if you think you're mad, read this! Pierce's inflammatory language and shaky organization probably didn't help his cause, but this quote in particular is an interesting (compliment? contradiction? not sure yet) to your point: It is not a failure of our institutions so much as it is a window into what they have become — soulless, profit-driven monsters, Darwinian predators with precious little humanity left in them. Yes, institutions are created by humans and thus have human flaws. But the sheer number of people involved in an institution, you would think, acts as a system of checks and balances to weed out the ugliness of humanity. Or, like in this case (and in the real world, let's face it), the number of people in institutions just gives bad seeds bigger walls to hide behind. I'm starting to lose track of what I'm responding to, so I'll just say this: Part of the reason why people react so vehemently to this is not just because this man was allowed to continue committing crimes the most helpless of people, but because it reveals flaws in our own humanity. The outrage is necessary, I think, to hopefully inspire people to consider their own institutions and moral shortcomings. |
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| 2014-07-22 02:32:22 by Oumaima
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| people could be "made" good or bad by the right conditioning. Apparently, some<a href="http://ugpmtede.com"> ppolee</a> thought that all you had to do was play classical music to children all day long, and they'd grow up angelic. Burgess subverts that by making Alex a great appreciator of classical music. I believe one of the rapes in the novel takes place while Beethoven's Ode to Joy is blasting from the speakers. My professor pointed out that you can actually sing some of the lines as if they were lyrics to the choral part.One last thing: it was Burgess who showed Kubrick that Ode to Joy and Singin' in the Rain can be played in counterpoint. Cool, aye? =DAnd one more tiny thing that's not nerdy, I promise! . . . I had a Japanese friend in uni who wanted to talk about this movie when he learned I was reading the book. When I asked him what drew him to such an odd (i.e. cult) choice, he replied, "I thought it would help me practice my English."Bwahahahahaha! I nearly died laughing. =P |
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