[lbo-talk] How's It Feel

[eric dorkin]

what about comparisons of the crime rate generally?  We are a more violent culture, such that people are "closer to the edge" of violent anti-social behavior.  I do think it was the violence of the Gulf War that triggered anything in Nichols, but the politics of and around the war.  Given his emersion in a violent culture, more generally, his reaction was violent.
Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:Carrol Cox wrote:


>Columbine was a demographic phenomenon. Out of so many people who attend
>schools, a certain number will do something rash. It had no cultural
>significance (except perhaps at the most abstract,even tautological,
>level -- we live in an individualized civilization).

How common is murder in high schools outside the U.S.? Not very, I'm guessing.

Doug
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