NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance?

[David Morris]

You are increasingly sounding like Clint Eastwood talking to a chair.  Just
sayin'

On Thursday, April 25, 2013, wrote:

> You feel sorry for this piece of shit?  Maybe you should travel to Boston
> and express your feelings to those limbless victims he intentionally
> destroyed.  Fuck you.
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> Dz seems a tragic consequence of big brother/father cult influence.  I
> feel sorry for him.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 10:58 pm
> Subject: Re: NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance?
>
>  Dz seems a tragic consequence of big brother/father cult influence.  I
> feel sorry for him.
>
> On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:31 am
> Subject: Re: NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance?
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>  Sorry, mal, I must have over looked this last evening.
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> It is so hard to see anything good or even human in the actions of the
> Tsarnaev brothers. Trying to understanding them seems alomost self-hating.
> Your "Who knew?"- more about my simplistic testosterone comment- seems
> really more to the point about Dzhokhar's persona. Of all the people who
> did know him and interact with him prior to the horrendus events, that I
> heard interviewed, not one of them could believe he could have been capable
> of such a monstrous lack of empathy. He seems truly Other than "We."
>
> The system may put him to death, or no, we'll see, but that's all after
> the fact. What new barometers will be devised, and how will they be
> applied, for measuring the potential danger of people who otherwise seem so
> normal? I find the prospects troubling.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: malignd malignd at aol.com
> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 6:28 pm
> Subject: Re: NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance?
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> <<I think many agree- physically, he's not hard to look at.>>
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>  He's a murderer but hey! he's cute!  And sociable!  Cut the kid some
> slack!
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>  <<Men, in general, are more prone to aggression and violence, much of
> that due testosterone.>>
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>  Who knew?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sun, Apr 21, 2013 6:14 pm
> Subject: Re: NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance?
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>  Dzhokhar is especially troubling and difficult to understand. I think
> many agree- physically, he's not hard to look at. From what I've read and
> heard, he's bright and sociable. He seemed to have alot going for him.
> Maybe there is more about him that will come out. Until then, it's an
> enigma.
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> Men, in general, are more prone to aggression and violence, much of that
> due testosterone. It's tough to say whether background checks would have
> been useful in this case, but they might have been, given the older
> brother's encounter with the FBI. Of course, that's part of the reason why
> extremists of any stripe are resisting them.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sun, Apr 21, 2013 4:57 pm
> Subject: Re: NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance?
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>  It's much easier politically to connect the Boston Marathon bombers with
> al Qaeda-style terrorism, than to connect them to the mentally ill (i.e.
> without apparent ideology) gunmen from Columbine to Newton. But surely
> young men who amass huge arsenals of weapons, for whatever reason, must
> have some psychological similarities.
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