Ellis Godard wrote "Consider high school prep rallies. They bring many folks together, but also elucidate and enunciate boundaries between boosters and those disinterested or opposed, and so are the subject of not only celebration but scorn." Well, yes, of course, but I mean so I would have assumed. You have to negotiate. Being probably too reductive about something complex, I'd offer the idea that part of what happens in the type of derangement that explodes into "inexplicable" violence is a lack of understanding about how to negotiate or a lack of negotiators. I'd take it further and say something about SSGs but I'd be way out of my depth. Anyway, my words mean exactly what you read there. I wouldn't want them to be misconstrued as indicating that I am against differences. I am highly in favor of the rhetorics of difference. It seems to me that at perhaps its best a society is an agreement to disagree. You have to negotiate things. Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.