Re: columbine
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:41:26 +1000
I don't think the issue here is one of morbidity. The Columbine tragedy has
shaken people up more than any comparative event than I can think of -
after this sort of thing had happened so many times people fell into a sort
of rut with it and this shook them out of it. This can not be a bad thing.
It's all very well to say `oh well, shit happens, let's get on with our
lives' but we should hold on to the anger and sorrow we feel about it
rather than just letting it melt away into indifference. Because if we do,
it will keep happening, kids will keep having guns and feeling unloved, and
tragedies will happen - I mean who's not to say you or someone you love
won't be caught in the crossfire one day? It'd take a whole lot longer than
a week to get over *that*. We can't afford to be lenient or indifferent to
this, and we should value our feelings rather than dismissing them. It's
not a matter of tainting our own innocence by contemplating the loss of
innocence of others. In a way it clarifies our own and makes it a thing
more worthy of our own appreciation. We realised that no one has a right to
take it away from us.
And by the way, I think this has *everything* to do with Salinger. He
created the ultimate disaffected teen in history.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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CusackFilm wrote:
> i apologize for the fact that this has nothing to do with salinger...
>
> i don't think we are letting the shooting at columbine consume our
lives...
>
> speaking as a high school student, it is not a small or pleasant thing to
> realize your own mortality.
>
> obviously an incident like the one at columbine is not preventable, but
it is
> a bit unsettling to suddenly feel unsafe in a place that you never felt
was
> the least bit dangerous. of course it's going to be a topic of
conversation.
>
>
> ease up.
>
> b