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To: PatiBob who wrote (202)	4/23/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 368

You make sense to me. It's just that my heart sinks everytime there is a nasty crime and the news uses a Colt or Beretta as the icon for a violent act. This incident hits me on several fronts. We live in a peaceful, prosperous country. What Littleton is to me - is an act of terrorism. Domestic terrorism no less awful than the Munich massacre of 27 years ago. The worst thing? The Black September movement had an ideology we could understand! The trenchcoat death squad had no cause. Did you see "The Big Lebowski"? I'm reminded of John Goodman's character expressing moral outrage at nihilism. "National socialism - at least it was an ethos!!" While this AIN'T a plug for fascism or ideological terrorism (unfortunately necessary disclaimer, folks) it is doubly distressing to be the Enemy for no good reason at all. Ordinary kids from "good" families in good neighborhoods in a prosperous section of the richest nation on earth - on a murder/suicide mission for no reason. We are denied even the solace of rationalizing a motive. Thanks for letting me rant; I'll go now and hug my family. I'll touch on the original question of this thread. I have no idea how to do anything about the underlying social rot. I'm pretty glum about the whole thing. When I grew up in the 60s and 70s there was still something left of the idea that we lived in a great nation and were headed toward bigger and better things. In the 70s I went thru adolescence - and the message changed. Overpopulation. Resource crises. Environmental collapse in our lifetimes. HOPE was replaced with a pervasive hopelessness - and the Punk movement was imo the first to distribute it to the teen generation. "The world is ending anyway, so party til you drop." It is my opinion that this is a very corrosive idea, and it falls on each and every one of us to elect politicians who will draw a line against hopelessness, against victimhood, against the spurious entitlement to live in comfort. OK, I'm really started now... better catch my breath.

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