[lbo-talk] Collective idiocy....

[Wojtek S]

It was symbolic inasmuch as someone only imagined it as 'what if' to
take a mental revenge on an idiotic system.  But it ceases to be
symbolic when someone else acts it out.  Jack Katz's book 'Seductions
of crime" has plenty of examples of crimes that were 'acting out" some
'symbolic' narratives.  Of course, none of us has any way of knowing
what was going in Lanzo's head, and the "official" version that we may
or may not hear will be just someone's conjecture. But as far as
conjectures go, "If" is not out the realm of possibilities.

wojtek

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Chuck Grimes <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The kid, who is already alienated by his emotional
>>
>> disability finally revolts against his gun loving mother and the gun
>> loving community of which she is a part in a reply, of a sort, of
>> Lindsay Anderson's film "If" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If....
>>
>> "At the end, in a surreal sequence, they discover a cache of automatic
>> weapons, and revolt
>
>
> Wojtek
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>
> That's a wrong read of the movie. The end was `symbolic'. But the revolt was
> something similar to the US student revolts against the broader society, its
> morays, and its pretentions as just and good.
>
> I seriously doubt Lanzo's motives were anything like If. There was something
> else going on with him. We'll just have to wait and see.
>
> CG
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Wojtek

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