Date: 2012-10-30 09:21 pm (UTC)
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There's a story about mob violence in Nigeria (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/perplexed-perplexed-on-mob-justice-in-nigeria/264006/) linked on metafilter today, I thought about Korean netizens. Obviously it's not the same thing at all; but at the same time, the lines about how mobbing is "a compression of time" that happens when official justice takes too long (or doesn't happen), and how societies in transition/that are experiencing a "crisis of modernity" are more prone to mob justice, did stand out a bit as having a wider relevance maybe.

Although then again it's an article in the Atlantic, and I kinda don't trust them to get their facts straight anymore!
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