tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850462849314268040.post8159492366428375116..comments2024-03-10T00:26:57.262-08:00Comments on The Dance of the Hippo: Visualizing shooting dataKarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11654006671545294361noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850462849314268040.post-61542693351238176702018-01-30T03:54:23.382-08:002018-01-30T03:54:23.382-08:00Oops, that bolded part is a quote from the post. M...Oops, that bolded part is a quote from the post. Meant to make it a blockquote.Jason Antrosiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012947323032077384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850462849314268040.post-11246643998069906332018-01-30T03:53:44.800-08:002018-01-30T03:53:44.800-08:00Yeah, I don't know if the numbers & data a...Yeah, I don't know if the numbers & data are especially scary, as much as our collective indifference or sense that "there's nothing we can do":<br /><b>America has had 11 school shootings in the last 23 days. That’s one every other day, more or less. That statistic is alarming enough — but it is just a number. Perspective asks us for comparison. So let me put that another way. America has had 11 school shootings in the last 23 days, which is more than anywhere else in the world, even Afghanistan or Iraq. In fact, the phenomenon of regular school shootings appears to be a unique feature of American collapse — it just doesn’t happen in any other country — and that is what I mean by “social pathologies of collapse”: a new, bizarre, terrible disease striking society.</b>Jason Antrosiohttps://www.livinganthropologically.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850462849314268040.post-82482485922769960162018-01-29T05:17:04.484-08:002018-01-29T05:17:04.484-08:00Kate's query was in response to a friend havin...Kate's query was in response to a friend having posted an article on that same subject - I suspect the very same article.<br /><br />I haven't read that yet. I was just being the faithful data servant.Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11654006671545294361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850462849314268040.post-90610764260970287942018-01-28T16:54:08.057-08:002018-01-28T16:54:08.057-08:00Well, since you are visualizing such cheery data, ...Well, since you are visualizing such cheery data, you may want to check out <a href="https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-be04d9e55235" rel="nofollow">Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse: The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State</a>. Be careful though--after reading it, you may want to stay right where you are!Jason Antrosiohttps://www.livinganthropologically.com/noreply@blogger.com