Comments on: More Side Effects of the GWOT http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 26 May 2012 21:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: P O'Neill http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/comment-page-1/#comment-168265 P O'Neill Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:20:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/#comment-168265 More related to your title than the content, I wonder if sociologists or psychologists can find a way to take advantage of the experiment now offered by plane flights where there's not much, in the traditional pass-the-time-in-flight sense, to do. In the extreme case of UK flights, passengers have nothing besides the inflight entertainment and whatever reading material the plane has. With the US restrictions, all the electronic toys are gone. What do people do? Sleep, tune out, go nuts? Perhaps there's a proto-Gladwellian hypothesis that in fact we're all over stimulated by the stuff around us and actually benefit from having to sit in one place and watch the clouds go by. More related to your title than the content, I wonder if sociologists or psychologists can find a way to take advantage of the experiment now offered by plane flights where there’s not much, in the traditional pass-the-time-in-flight sense, to do. In the extreme case of UK flights, passengers have nothing besides the inflight entertainment and whatever reading material the plane has. With the US restrictions, all the electronic toys are gone. What do people do? Sleep, tune out, go nuts? Perhaps there’s a proto-Gladwellian hypothesis that in fact we’re all over stimulated by the stuff around us and actually benefit from having to sit in one place and watch the clouds go by.

]]> By: Scott Lemieux http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/comment-page-1/#comment-168230 Scott Lemieux Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:30:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/#comment-168230 "One Canadian city is as good as another, eh?" Especially if you end up in Toronto rather than Monteal, Good God, no. “One Canadian city is as good as another, eh?”

Especially if you end up in Toronto rather than Monteal, Good God, no.

]]> By: Maynard Handley http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/comment-page-1/#comment-168206 Maynard Handley Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:02:35 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/#comment-168206 " But Foer manages to make you like him. " I guess it takes all types. I dropped the book at about 100 pages in because I couldn't stand the little bastard. I can't remember exactly what it was that got to me, but I think there was a certain know-it-all-ness about him, that he's constantly thinking how everyone else should live their lives. This may (or may not) be accurate reportage, but it is not endearing. ”
But Foer manages to make you like him.
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I guess it takes all types. I dropped the book at about 100 pages in because I couldn’t stand the little bastard. I can’t remember exactly what it was that got to me, but I think there was a certain know-it-all-ness about him, that he’s constantly thinking how everyone else should live their lives. This may (or may not) be accurate reportage, but it is not endearing.

]]> By: Rasselas http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/comment-page-1/#comment-168197 Rasselas Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:29:46 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/#comment-168197 Maybe '60s Dublin was just less twee than contemporary Brooklyn. Maybe ‘60s Dublin was just less twee than contemporary Brooklyn.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/comment-page-1/#comment-168170 Kieran Healy Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:55:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/#comment-168170 Hmm. Foer's Oskar has a tambourine he shakes obsessively. And his grandmother's sister is named Anna. Oskar's grandfather walks out on his grandmother. Hmm. Foer’s Oskar has a tambourine he shakes obsessively. And his grandmother’s sister is named Anna. Oskar’s grandfather walks out on his grandmother.

]]> By: Chris Bertram http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/comment-page-1/#comment-168169 Chris Bertram Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:39:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/11/more-side-effects-of-the-gwot/#comment-168169 A traumatized child called Oskar? Does Foer intend soem kind of homage to _The Tin Drum_ ? A traumatized child called Oskar? Does Foer intend soem kind of homage to The Tin Drum ?

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