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John Krakauer
Missoula is not Krakauer’s best effort. This is an advocacy piece relating to the
rape “crisis” on American college campuses.
Disappointingly, Krakauer never connects the dots between the campus
culture of binge drinking and substance abuse, which he dismisses as “a right
of passage”, and the traumatized lives of both victims and perpetrators.
In
Into the Wild, Krakauer deals with a
man who engages is risky behavior with grizzly bears. Unsurprisingly, the man is eventually mauled
by a bear. In Missoula, Krakauer describes multiple instances of college students
drunk to the point of blackout or memory loss, engaging in risky behavior. Unsurprisingly, bad things happen.
Perhaps
the take away from these books is to be responsible for your own behavior and
not to expect predators to be other than predatory.
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