tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post6719985701666772728..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: CHO/LIVIU LIBRESCUUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-20863550504649387412007-04-22T15:25:00.000-06:002007-04-22T15:25:00.000-06:00This is a most intelligent and perceptive evaluati...This is a most intelligent and perceptive evaluation. <BR/><BR/>I feared that the country would go into a paroxysm of self-loathing, along the line that our racist/sexist/imperialist/nasty nation drove poor little Cho to do it. But except for the usual few ideologues, people have avoided that nonsense. One wonders how those ideologues explain Booker T. Washington, who achieved what he did when American society was all of the above.<BR/><BR/>The Genesis story of Abraham and Isaac (and Ishmael) is one of the darkest in the bible, and bespeaks a jealous tribal God, dimly understood, and eons removed from a loving God. It has always troubled me that Muslims have embraced a version of it. You superbly connect Cho to the Muslim world at that common ground. <BR/><BR/>You have brought genuine ideological, environmental, and psychological factors to bear on all of this, with impressive rigor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-84338130998804400462007-04-22T05:45:00.000-06:002007-04-22T05:45:00.000-06:00Thanks, folks. I find mnuez' description of Cho's...Thanks, folks. I find mnuez' description of Cho's dilemma (on mnuez' blog) to be probably pretty accurate. It also appears that Cho had something organic wrong with him -- his head wasn't wired properly from the beginning. Line up a metabolic or brain glitch, a major family relocation, a society that won't tolerate oddballs, and the pressures of a 23 year old man when all around him were graduating, marrying and finding jobs, tragedy is right there.<BR/><BR/>Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-32066559554074247662007-04-21T23:04:00.000-06:002007-04-21T23:04:00.000-06:00A most excellent post. Very different from the gen...A most excellent post. Very different from the generic paper-mache posts everyone else is offering. I might caution you against even REPRINTING the poem regarding revolution, if TV newscasters get their way (and there's at least a 1/3 chance that they will) we're about to enter a McCarthyistic timke such as McCarthy could only dream about. Being misanthropic to any degree, sending a non-accepted IM pass to a girl you fancy or calling (even less than halfheartedly) for any form of revolution could see you released from the burden of your rights quite quickly.<BR/><BR/>I've also just started to travel down the path of some past posts of yours and am appreciating them as well. <BR/><BR/>God bless,<BR/><BR/>mnuezmnuezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328856077944673860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-13003660287167438512007-04-21T09:02:00.000-06:002007-04-21T09:02:00.000-06:00good analysis seehttp://hu1st.blogspot.com/good analysis see<BR/><BR/>http://hu1st.blogspot.com/BlArthurHuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09298660883025641858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-39491029456382900842007-04-21T08:57:00.000-06:002007-04-21T08:57:00.000-06:00When I started teaching an Adult Basic Ed class an...When I started teaching an Adult Basic Ed class and working with expelled students from the local middle school, I began to meet plenty of angry, alienated young men. <BR/><BR/>There's not much one can do for them--psychiatric treatment is expensive, and distant from here, and they don't seem able to envision themselves changing, or having a better life. I try to treat them decently, and to listen to them. I don't think they notice, and I don't expect it makes any difference. <BR/><BR/>"Murder the bastards." The trouble with that is collateral damage. Two of my students have killed other people in their suicidal behavior. It's certainly disheartening to hear a teacher say that out loud, at school. It seems like they've given up trying.Rebecca Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06494730619850791609noreply@blogger.com