OFF: the truth is out there

[Carl E. Anderson]

On fre 5 dec 1997 17.29 +0000 bart <bart at AEOLIANS.BT.CO.UK> wrote:
> Besides, all this about shock & disgust seems a bit tame when you
consider
> what's actually going in the Real World. I mean any of the UK people see
> Dispatches on Channel 4 last night about massacres in Algeria :-{ ?
Those
> kind of pictures shut you up whether you've been "tainted" by a NIN
video or
> not.

     True.  But it seems strange to me that people find this "shocking".
Nasty, yes, but shocking?  It's the sort of thing that goes on all the
time.  History has shown people to be vicious bastards.

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/