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The Culture of Passivity

I've been glued to coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. But I can't help asking of the parade of psychologists, friends of the slain, and other experts on TV: What planet do these people live on?

On National Review, James Bowman writes about:

"...the Virginia Tech students who fled as the Korean gunman, Cho Seung Hui, went on his homicidal rampage on their campus Monday--or who, like Jamal Albarghouti, instead of fleeing, took out their cell phones to record the sights and sounds of the massacre. 'This is what this YouTube-Facebook-instant messaging generation does,' reported the Washington Post of Albarghouti's exploit as if it were a matter for pride: "Witness. Record. Share." And, as the Post might have added, not fight back. It appears to have occurred to no one to do that."

Jim does see one hero of the Virginia Tech horror: a man from a different generation. Read the whole column.

Mark Steyn also laments the "culture of passivity."

 

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