Why does TSA hate books?
Mar 14, 2011 | 9:00 am
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Mar 14, 2011 | 9:52 am
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Individual TSA employees may hate readers more than they hate books.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic..._atlarge_crain
Starting as a teen, I've experienced a sinking feeling when someone has said, "You think you're better than everybody else, don't you?" It didn't take too many incidents for me to figure out that the speaker believed I was "better" than s/he was in some way, and there was little I could do about the speaker's feelings.
I think when many TSA employees encounter a traveler loaded down with 1-20 tomes, they feel intimidated, and angry with the traveler over how the traveler's obvious intellect has made the agent feel.
If it seems like the agent is irrationally hostile, and you're lugging Beowulf, Chaos, a half-completed New York Times crossword puzzle and the latest bestseller, just shut up and take your school-yard beating like the bracey-facey-four-eyed geek you are! It goes with the territory.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic..._atlarge_crain
Starting as a teen, I've experienced a sinking feeling when someone has said, "You think you're better than everybody else, don't you?" It didn't take too many incidents for me to figure out that the speaker believed I was "better" than s/he was in some way, and there was little I could do about the speaker's feelings.
I think when many TSA employees encounter a traveler loaded down with 1-20 tomes, they feel intimidated, and angry with the traveler over how the traveler's obvious intellect has made the agent feel.
If it seems like the agent is irrationally hostile, and you're lugging Beowulf, Chaos, a half-completed New York Times crossword puzzle and the latest bestseller, just shut up and take your school-yard beating like the bracey-facey-four-eyed geek you are! It goes with the territory.
Mar 14, 2011 | 10:33 am
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Individual TSA employees may hate readers more than they hate books.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic..._atlarge_crain
Starting as a teen, I've experienced a sinking feeling when someone has said, "You think you're better than everybody else, don't you?" It didn't take too many incidents for me to figure out that the speaker believed I was "better" than s/he was in some way, and there was little I could do about the speaker's feelings.
I think when many TSA employees encounter a traveler loaded down with 1-20 tomes, they feel intimidated, and angry with the traveler over how the traveler's obvious intellect has made the agent feel.
If it seems like the agent is irrationally hostile, and you're lugging Beowulf, Chaos, a half-completed New York Times crossword puzzle and the latest bestseller, just shut up and take your school-yard beating like the bracey-facey-four-eyed geek you are! It goes with the territory.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic..._atlarge_crain
Starting as a teen, I've experienced a sinking feeling when someone has said, "You think you're better than everybody else, don't you?" It didn't take too many incidents for me to figure out that the speaker believed I was "better" than s/he was in some way, and there was little I could do about the speaker's feelings.
I think when many TSA employees encounter a traveler loaded down with 1-20 tomes, they feel intimidated, and angry with the traveler over how the traveler's obvious intellect has made the agent feel.
If it seems like the agent is irrationally hostile, and you're lugging Beowulf, Chaos, a half-completed New York Times crossword puzzle and the latest bestseller, just shut up and take your school-yard beating like the bracey-facey-four-eyed geek you are! It goes with the territory.
I don't have to take that crap any more, and I don't.
But strangely, since I grew so large, far fewer people seem to want to dish it out to me any more. Dunno why...
Mar 14, 2011 | 12:40 pm
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I don't think TSA hates books.
I believe it's more like in the scene from the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the apes are gathered around the obelisk in fear.
I believe it's more like in the scene from the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the apes are gathered around the obelisk in fear.
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Mar 25, 2011 | 12:20 pm
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Mar 25, 2011 | 12:24 pm
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Besides, Mrs. Said has the right to the fruits of her husband's literary labors.
Mar 25, 2011 | 11:49 pm
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Answer to the thread's question: Of course they do. Books are another of those "sandboxes of the rich", you know, like CPB and NPR.
Mar 29, 2011 | 9:30 pm
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Besides, Mrs. Said has the right to the fruits of her husband's literary labors.
