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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Walked into my 3:30 class today and my students asked me what I thought about this. My response was that I don't have anything enlightening to say about this, and I doubt few do so soon afterwards. However, what is always educational about such events is to look at the narratives created in the immediate aftermath, as they are indicative of our desire to know and understand, which is often so great that we will conjure stories out of nothingness or pure supposition in order to sate our ignorance.
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30 years ago, people would be huddled around a picture tube just waiting to hear what happened.