4.4.01
they’re rioting in tucson. the photographer gets some serious kudos – he must have been right in the middle of the mob. paul says he takes some sort of perverse pride in this; i have to say i think it sucks. take a look at the picture of the burned-out shell of a motor home. that trailer used to house a family with a nine-month old baby who sold hotdogs on the street corner for a living. so some angry basketball fans decided that destroying these people’s home would make them feel better? what? seriously, mob mentality is a freaky thing. it’s horrifying the way that personal responsibility vanishes in the midst of a mob scene, and ordinary people do extraordinarily bad things. it makes you wonder about human nature – do we all have a destructive, violent nature lurking just beneath the surface, waiting for a moment of anonymity to free it? is the threat of social reprimand the only thing that keeps us in line?