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quote:And, er, are we sure this is in the best of taste?Yo. Nes. I dunno.
It's the same impulse that leads to the famous rush-to-judgment: the impulse to understand, to feel in control. Putting a name to it, classifying it, putting it in a box, having a handle on it.
It's the first thing the news networks do, y'know, for any huge disaster or incident or conflict--come up with a name, and a graphic--to distinguish the Incident In Question from the rest of the news (if any, ha-ha...), and at first you get three or four different names, and then it shakes out to just one, most of the time.
Someone, somewhere, is making this decision. Someone, somewhere, is thinking this way--about punch, and glitz, and recognition and memory. Someone, somewhere, is going to determine how we remember this.
That's important.
Too important, maybe, to be left to someone whose primary concern is ratings?
Yo. Nes. I dunno.
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