It is instead a gesture perhaps one of hope, perhaps one of remorse, perhaps one of wilful, high-boulder-hopping hey-look-what-I-can-do.
Greil Marcus, the better known of the two editors, specialises in rich and wilful explorations of high and low culture.
This echoes a literally shattering scene earlier on when Pat reads the high school syllabus his wife is currently teaching, is driven crazy by the wilful pessimism of the end of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and throws the book through a closed window.
But the public may wonder whether such wilful damage to one of the country's main independent sources of news and culture isn't too high a price to pay to salve some politicians' hurt feelings.
With regard to behaviour, discussion centred around wilful violation of crossing protocols, often as a time-saving measure, as well as driver complacency due to high levels of familiarity.
Batman is never going to be up there with the Ferris Buellers of the cinematic world when it comes to fun-lovin' high jinks, fine, but never has a big-screen action hero operated so many high-powered vehicles with such wilful joylessness.
Some are wilful misunderstanding.
To argue otherwise is wilful.
Its misunderstanding seems almost wilful.
