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The impulse to blame "new technology" in times of crisis and civil unrest is not new.
Well, such risks and temptations affect us all in milder ways, the impulse to blame the "other".
After the initial shock and impulse to blame someone for the error, there was complete, unspoken agreement among Adina, Ben, and Naomi (Judith had left for the day) that peace must be maintained.
The impulse to blame Obama for all this corporate timidity is understandable: aside from the fact that plenty of businesspeople don't like his policies, it would make things so much easier if a President could jump-start the economy just by making the suits feel better.
Sackville knows the flavor of a marriage politely going sour: Julia's silent agony — "Please not the pheasant fact, don't say it don't or I'll hate you," just before Simon repeats it for the millionth time; Simon's impulse to blame Julia for the morning traffic; Julia's ability to guess correctly which of two eggs on his plate Simon will eat first.
She may have faulted her husband for being inappropriate, but I find her impulse to blame the Woman — not only me, but herself — troubling".
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His impulse was to blame his students' sloth, but I think he missed the point.
The impulse is to blame the Afghans for taking up the corrupting incentives of massive international spending, and, equally, to blame Pakistan for allowing the Taliban to regroup — as if NATO were not complicit in both failures.
What's more, there are further signs of trade hostilities from Washington, where the impulse is to blame China's cheap exports, at least partly, for America's continued high unemployment.
I see a world dangerously out of balance — morally, economically, ecologically — and my natural impulse is to blame those figures who, in my view, embody the decadent ignorance of the age.
In an era of Occupy Wall Street and too many investing scandals, the impulse is to blame fraud or at least insiders who take liberties at the expense of the rest of us.
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