Going Postal Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond

by Ames, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781932360820
• ISBN10: 1932360824
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-17
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued - and baffled - society for the last 30 years and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, 'why?'. By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 80s, the author crafts a convincing argument that these massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. In doing so he presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in great detail.

Author Biography

Mark Ames was born in Silicon Valley. In 1993, he escaped the office life by moving to Moscow, Russia, where he founded the satirical, muckraking newspaper The eXile, and co-authored a book about the newspaper, which was shut down by the Kremlin in 2008. He now lives in New York and writes for The Nation.

Table of Contents

Part I: If He'd Just Got the Right People
1 "I told them I'd be back."	7	(3)
2 Pow! Pow! Pow!	10	(4)
3 Little Doughboy	14	(5)
4 Just Tough It Out	19	(3)
5 "Your request is...irrelevant"	22	(2)
6 Rocky's Best Friends	24	(5)
Part II: The Banality of Slavery
1 The Heart of Submissiveness	29	(6)
2 Inanimate African Cargo	35	(1)
3 Slave Management	36	(5)
4 A Normal and Inevitable Aspect of Their Affairs	41	(3)
5 Realists and Madmen	44	(4)
6 A Roman Catholic Plot	48	(2)
7 The Battle of Negro Fort	50	(2)
8 A Talent for Concerted Action	52	(4)
9 "Without any cause or provocation"	56	(3)
10 His Soul Is Marching On!	59	(2)
11 Our Founding Fleecers	61	(6)
Part III: Ragenomics
0 Ragenomics	67	(1)
1 Rage Against the Gipper	68	(4)
2 "This has put a damper on our day."	72	(7)
3 Disgruntled Employees	79	(5)
4 It Permeates the Entire Culture	84	(3)
5 Let Them Eat Prozac	87	(8)
6 Making an Empire State Building Out of an Anthill	95	(4)
7 What Human Flesh Tastes Like	99	(6)
8 Putting Their Heads on Pikes	105	(3)
9 Workers Complain, But They Don't Quit	108	(4)
10 The Cost of Stress	112	(5)
Part IV: Wage Rage
1 Hire One Bourgeois to Alienate the Other	117	(2)
2 Profiling Anyone	119	(1)
3 Secrets to Company Hunting	120	(1)
4 A Mom and Pop Operation	121	(3)
5 Termination! Termination!	124	(6)
6 A Mellow Guy	130	(1)
7 Tuan & Song	130	(2)
8 "I'm not gay!"	132	(1)
9 A Nondescript Warren of an Office	133	(6)
10 The Summer of Rage	139	(8)
11 "Evil, not rage"	147	(7)
12 A Rebellion of One	154	(3)
Part V: More Rage. More Rage.
1 I Don't Like Mondays	157	(2)
2 This Place Is the Pits!	159	(4)
3 "It's only me"	163	(4)
4 Sympathy Rage	167	(6)
5 Frog-Marching Across the Quad	173	(4)
6 Copycats on Copycats	177	(2)
7 An Entirely New Phenomenon	179	(5)
8 Culturally Normal Behavior	184	(3)
9 Anorexic Andy	187	(4)
10 I Would Have Done It Too	191	(4)
11 A Problem Overlooked	195	(2)
12 No Profile Possible	197	(4)
13 Kids 4 Snitching	201	(4)
14 St. Eric and St. Dylan	205	(5)
15 Target: America	210	(3)
Part VI: Welcome to the Dollhouse
1 Bad Intentions	213	(2)
2 The Maze	215	(3)
3 A 4.0 Failure	218	(3)
4 A Kind and Caring Stranger	221	(1)
5 The Post-Diaper Rat Race & Testing for Caldwell Brokers	222	(3)
6 Globalization High	225	(2)
7 The Groaning Horde	227	(2)
8 Every Child Left Behind	229	(2)
9 Peggy Sue Got Buried	231	(1)
10 From Columbine to Bin Laden	232	(3)
11 Move On or Get Over It!	235	(6)
Postscript	241	(2)
Endnotes	243