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To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (352)	5/9/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 368

Robert Yes, response from this professor is very similar to a link I supplied in post #338. They are both connected to Ayn Rand organizations. Gordon Since you obviously have a good bit of curiousity, you might go to the Marilyn Manson thread on SI and check out what he/she is all about. You might be surprised, but at the very least you will be better informed than the media that brings him into the discussion every time they get a chance.

To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (352)	5/9/1999 4:24:00 PM
From: HIA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 368

A view that high school students are something like ambivalent...fits into my concern of aggressive personnel management of society...But if you look at the news and see interviews of students who did not lose relatives or best friends...they say things were normal and calm...a micro society that WAS theirs to know and understand... But what I have been saying is that the violence of terrorists might be an extreme representation of repressed feelings of a larger segment of society... Yes it would have made more sense for them to rob a bank and leave town than to launch a suicide attack against their school... On entertainment media...surely the bland...shot-on-video-for-cable...movies that show superficial sex and that offer stereotypical gun play...surely no-one considers that to be blockbuster dramatic entertainment...so there's a possible ambivalence to high volume entertainment media...possible if depth is given to the larger consumer society...

To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (352)	5/12/1999 2:21:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 368

From The Onion: In the wake of the April 20 massacre at Columbine High School, many are calling for charges to be filed against the parents of the two killers for not responding to warning signs. What do you think about holding parents responsible for the criminal acts of their children? I'm sorry, but good parents know when their child is planning to shoot 500 of his classmates, hijack an airplane and crash it into New York City." Judith Stoddard, Pediatrician "Video games, not parents, are to blame for many of these teenage crimes. I'm certain it was Frogger that taught my son to jaywalk." John Bumbry, Systems Analyst "Charges should be filed against anyone who knew these kids were wearing black trenchcoats and didn't do anything about it." Roy Sakata, Temp Worker "As a responsible parent, I would never let my kids watch garbage like Natural Born Killers. Terrence Malick's Badlands is a far superior treatment of the same subject." Gordon Crowley, Actuary "With so many innocent children already dead, it's critical that we wait not a minute longer to enact knee-jerk legislation." Melissa Roenicke, Coffee-Shop Manager "Responsibility lies with Marilyn Manson, for inspiring this terrible violence. And with Alice Cooper, for inspiring Marilyn Manson." Douglas Krenchicki, Roofer