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I don’t have anything to say about this, nor I think did I blog on the attacks in Florida or Paris or all the terrible things going on in the Middle East every day. It’s not my area of expertise and I don’t have anything particular to add.
I’m only posting this note here because we’ve had a bunch of recent posts related to Brexit news, and during the next several months we’ll continue to be interrupting our regular fare of himmicanes, power pose, and Stan with posts on the U.S. election. (The blog is already full through mid-Nov but polling and election news will certainly be causing us to bump some scheduled material.) It seems kinda weird to sometimes be posting topically but then to completely ignore things like the Turkey attack.
We learn from anomalies. And, the sad thing is, these terror events are no longer anomalous; they’re common place. Speaking as a social scientist, the way to study these is no longer, why do they happen, but rather, when and how do they occur, how do people and organizations react to them, and so forth.
Again, I have no special insight here; it just felt odd not to not react at all to something which, considered in isolation, is such a striking and scary thing. You can take it as representative of all the striking and scary things happening in the world that we just let pass by us.
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