Editormum's Oddments: American Society Has Lost the Concept of "Bad"

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Sunday, December 14, 2003

American Society Has Lost the Concept of "Bad"

I don't know exactly how it happened, but we no longer have "bad" in our culture. Not "bad" as a stand-alone concept, anyway. We have "bad, but...." Harris and Klebold were bad, but people were mean to them. Lee Malvo did a bad thing, but he was under John Muhammed's spell. Michael Jackson does bad... Sign in to see full entry.

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