MINUTES of a MONDAY #131
A couple of bits and pieces to get your week off to a flyer
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BRAIN FOOD: Not Standing with the Bystanders
“It’s shocking how little of the original story holds up. On that fateful night, it wasn’t ordinary New Yorkers, but the authorities who failed. Kitty didn’t die alone, but in the arms of a friend. And when it comes down to it, the presence of bystanders has percisely the opposite effect of what science has long insisted. We’re not alont in the big city, on the subway, on the crowded streets. We have each other.
And Kitty’s story doesn’t end there. There was one final, bizarre twist. Five days after Kitty’s death, Raoul Cleary, a Queen’s resident, noticed a stranger in the street. He was coming out of a neighbours house in broad daylight, carrying a television set. When Raoul stopped him, the man claimed to be a mover.
But Raoul was suspiciou and phoned a neighbour, Jack Brown.
“Are the Bannisters moving?” he asked.
“Absolutely not.” Brown answered.
Both men didn’t hesitate. While Jack disabled the man’s vehicle, Raoul called the police, who arrived to arrest the burglar the moment he re-emerged. Just hours later, the man confessed. Not only to breaking and entering, but also the the murder of a young woman in Kew Gardens. A young woman called Kitty.”
In his book “Humankind” Rutger Bregman debunks the decades old story of the murder of Catherine “Kitty” Susan Genovese outside her apartment block in NYC, in March 1964. It was claimed that 37 people had witnessed her murder, yet did nothing. It gave rise to a phenomenon called ‘the bystander effect.’
SOUL FOOD:
“The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not the think of it.”
Stanley Kubrick
LOL:
@mrdrycomedian with another one for the ages:
APPENDIX:
“I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they’ve worked out on all kinds of things, but we’re subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible.”
Henry Singleton
A.O.B.
Short and snappy for #131, but hopefully something in there for you to take away with it.
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