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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (24511)	8/20/1998 7:01:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Violence on the news is like the slots at Vegas. You don't notice the quiet ones. I would bet that most schools fit your and my experience - where the worst infractions stopped short of needing uniformed police present. I'm sorry to hear about your run-in with the KKK. Those folks have been violently active for over eighty years - burning, raping, killing, the whole megillah. Only in the last coupla decades has the news organization become efficient enough to really stay ahead of those guys. I guess my point is that if you have a basic level of violence - and steadily improve your news coverage of that violence - the obvious prima facie conclusion is that things are going straight into the Pampers. Even when really that's not what's happening. The Armenian disaster of the 1900s and the Chinese famine of the 1950s were really awful. But they didn't get a lot of press and zero TV time. I notice as I get older, I am more sensitized to tales of woe. When I was in college and we invaded grenada, I couldn't give the proverbial rodent's brisket. Now we're bombing the thirdest of the third world - and I worry. Are things worse now? Kinda, because we got through the earlier contretemps. Next one could be the unlucky one though. As I get older, I am losing my resilience, and things bug me more.

To: Alan Markoff who wrote (24511)	8/20/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." (G.B. Shaw) When we are in the middle of violence, at the center of terrible hate or ignorance filled actions, it must seem as if humanity is in a downspiral. Then we read of the horrors of the holocaust, the eyewitness accounts of settlers who watched their families scalped, the burning of innocent women at the stake, the innocent children sent into the Crusades only to die. I don't know, Nancy. I ache for your experiences. They make me want to put my arms around you and your children. ANd that's all I know to do. It's the only way I know to fight.