Well, he isnt necessarily saying theyre new, but he is suggesting that
they are unprecedented, & there may be an argument there.
On the other hand, I am beginning to wonder if our sense of the
growing crazines of USAmericans may not have to do with the
extraordinary media publicity theyre getting. There was a story on
CBC's SUnday Morning show coming out of the Vatican's 'forgiveness' of
he Beatles, in which they played some old interviews with the preacher
& some of his young flock min Tennessee (I think) who were burning
Beatles LPs because they were 'satanic' & 'unpatriotic' (having
apparently made some negative comments about the USA). They sounded
crazy too, but I had forgotten, partly because the story was a one day
wonder. Now...?
Doug
On 20-Apr-10, at 7:35 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> Even staying with the quote you picked, I'd say the suggestion that
> such
> phenomena are new, or suddenly imbued with an unprecedented
> virulence is
> quite exaggerated.
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