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http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/cognoculture/riot_redux_stephen_reicher_qa...Q: What of the reactionary response - by both right and left - to pinpoint this on the 'marginalized'?It's always been an instant response to riots to say that they are the marginal in society, they are people who are already violent in society. Those studies that have been done - and the biggest study was the Kerner Commission after the American riots of the 60s - which showed that the average ghetto rioter was not marginal. The average ghetto rioter was on the whole more educated than the norm, at least in the communities that participated. They were more likely to be members of more community organizations and they were less likely to have a criminal background. So again, the presupposition that this is a gang phenomenon is untested-we simply don't know. Or again, that somehow there is a loss of parental respect. What our own research and contemporary research has shown that young people involved in violence don't want their parents to know. They do it in such a way that their parents don't hear about it. But then when their mums do hear about this they don't like it, in fact they're upset if their parents are upset. The notion that these are people who come from broken homes and don't give a damn what their parents think and we've got this young feral generation-again, this is an entirely untested set of assumptions based, on the whole, on political presuppositions. The explanations that are coming out are very much bounded up with that politics of blame...
There seems to be a formatting error on the last question. Is Morrissey saying the new album is completely recorded and due out in January?
Moz should think about trying out Pandora Radio.
You type in the artist/band you enjoy and a whole series of other artists show up on the playlist that you might never have heard of before.
I feel it's the best way to find new music while avoiding the barren wasteland of regular radio. There's some really good stuff to be discovered from Pandora radio (and it's a free app too!)
I love Pandora but sometimes it doesn't work. For instance, if you type in Morrissey it lumps him in with 80s bands when I feel his "sound" is more along the lines of crooners and velvet-voiced singers. They miss the mark on him, it's a bummer to hear the beauty of his cover of Moon River fade into Bizarre Love Triangle, but otherwise it is a great way to discover new bands.
That sounds like heaven for my sister. (She loves Morrissey and New Order.) I think Pandora is supposed to do bands that other people who like that band like, not similar sounding bands. My mom was complaining about the same thing earlier. She was listening to a White Stripes station and Modest Mouse came on and she was like, "How does this sound like The White Stripes?" Indeed it didn't. Moon River would sound great next to a crooner song.
I am not sure how Modest Mouse and The White Stripes could go.
Would you like toast? "TOASTERS THESE DAY ARE NOT LIKE THEY USED TO BE. YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE YOUR TOAST EVENLY TOASTED AND THE CRUSTS WOULD BE PERFECT AND THE CRUMB CATCHER USED TO CATCH THE CRUMBS WITH PERFECTION BUT NOT ANY MORE."
Mmm, yesssssss? You raaaaaaannnng?
wait, it says "All The Young" not "The Young Giant"...
all the young giants?