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  1. Sep 2018
    1. swastikas were found scratched in a stall in one of the high school's newly painted bathrooms. Eric Harris certainly didn't accept the idea that anyone was to blame

      The newly carved swastikas in a fresh painted bathroom could be seen as a symbol as columbine tried to cover up the bad with good (the pep rally) no matter how hard they tried to covered it up the bad will show again.

    2. The senseless loss of life always trumps the efforts of the meaning makers.

      This reminds me of "Thoughts and prayers" when a tragedy happens people often recognize it but do nothing to prevent it in the future.

    3. The list goes on and on, because every shqe salesman and waitress, every schoolteacher and cop, every politician and pundit has a story to tell and wants to share it now via the Internet, on some television talk show, or on the printed page. The chosen media doesn't seem to matter. The stories will ou

      The good the bad and the ugly come out a lot more quickly now due to mass media. whether this is good or bad, I am unsure of.

    4. to provide training in the arts of solving the problems of this world,

      A pen and paper (or a computer) is a powerful tool. In high school expression through writing was rare. Students should be given more opportunities to express themselves.

    5. the World Trade Center? Looted museums in a bombed-out Baghdad? No meaningful discussion of the humanities can proceed without confronting such examples of human depravity and in­difference. Who, surveying the ruins at Chernobyl,

      Humanity needs to understand what it has gone through to understand it at a whole.