Abstract

Satire, Guns, and Humans: Lessons from the Nacirema

Highlights

  • In early spring, 2007, a student at Virginia Tech University shot and killed 32 students and faculty

  • The President was made aware of the Virginia Tech shootings

  • Certainly bringing a gun into a school dormitory and shooting ... obviously that would be against the law and something that someone should be held accountable for.”

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Summary

Introduction

2007, a student at Virginia Tech University shot and killed 32 students and faculty. If reason took the shape of a horse, senseless violence appeared in the form of a human. As Gulliver sails from the island he concludes that the Houyhnhnm, the illiterate horses, embody the spirit of reason while the Yahoos, the humanoids, rage, fume, and storm through life.

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