DoubleQuoting violence, the choice today

[ by Charles Cameron — humanity I love, but humans when humanity goes out the window — more difficult ]

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The question, the choice facing me, is this: should I DoubleTweet today’s Times tweet —

Dentist nearly lost his hand in racist attack by man wielding machete who said he wanted revenge for Lee Rigby http://t.co/EDwRs32jxI

— The Times of London (@thetimes) June 23, 2015

with another of today’s tweets, this one from the Evening Standard:

Schizophrenic who decapitated grandmother found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity http://t.co/vgrlSxHJOk pic.twitter.com/wPql57ZtoN

— Evening Standard (@standardnews) June 23, 2015

— or with this one — or similar — from the Daily Mirror a couple of years ago?

Lee Rigby trial: Murder accused Michael Adebolajo 'confessed he tried to behead soldier' in police interviews http://t.co/pBIjqCerGo

— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) December 4, 2013

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There’s a simultaneity to the first option, and a sort of tit-for-tat causality to the second: which is to say there are both synchronic and diachronic linkages on offer.

So it is with the world’s events, there are synchronicities and diachronicities.

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Hat-tip to Bryan Alexander of Infocult: Uncanny Informatics. A very bright man, a very Russian beard, a very good friend.