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From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: CRASH CONTAGION
>Hi salice@gmx.net -
>
>>Ask all outsiders whether they plan to crash
>>a plane in the near future?
>
>It's a nice little hindsight fact that, if we had
been aware of certain
>signs, we would have not only singled out the
hijackers, but, indeed,
>apprehended them months earlier.
>
>What indeed shall we do?
>
>It's a nice little hindsight fact that, if someone
had actually gone into
>the bedroom of one of the Columbine kids, that
tragedy would have been
>prevented.
>
>And it's a nice little hindsight that, if someone had
actually taken a
>good look at the kid in Florida (a nice quiet kid no-
one paid any
>attention to), that might have been prevented, too.
>
>I don't have any answers here, but, yes, this
hindsight sucks. There were
>way too many red flags up.
>
>So, what's the response to red flags these days? Is
it really that no-one
>gives a shit?
>
>Looks that way.
>
>Maybe we're too busy these days making our own little
corners tidy. Or
>maybe it don't really matter whom we're stepping over
all the time.
>
>And yet, we also have the little case of the shoe-
bomb dupe, incompetent
>and clumsy, who made himself all too obvious, and in
his case, there was
>a response to the red flags, although he was waving
them with both hands.
>Nice little case of hindsight, but he should have
remained in France.
>
>But, yeah, just how far is a deviation needed to be
before the general
>alarm is out?
>
>Why is it while we're burying the dead that we
realize what we've been
>ignoring?
Hi Wade, well you might say we're handicapped in
spotting pending disaster if the potential perpetrators
are covertly planning such devastating operations.
How on earth are people to recognize possible threats
if they don't receive any clues or signs?
The kid was shy and introverted as you say (this
reminds me also of your typical serial killer), there
was no way to detect his devious plans.
Also most people mostly need really strong
alarming signals to trigger them to undertake
preventive action. You think twice before you make a
possible fool of yourself, right?
Philip.
>- Wade
>
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