ABSTRACT
The idea of tragedy contains more than that of misfortune. It also contains an understanding of why what happened, and locates the root within ourselves. Within the commentary on Littleton there was very little understanding of its causes, and even less that represented self-insight. Among its consequences the Littleton massacre finds a natural home. Yet the alienation of young men does not exhaust the connection between the revolt of the primitive and Littleton. The problems created by the revolt of the primitive become incapable of correction and harden into social structure. What the events at Littleton, and the pattern of social responses to those events, suggest is that this limitation may itself give way before something perhaps even darker. They suggest that the social order defined by political correctness, and determined by the revolt of the primitive, may be only a way station on the road to pure chaos, to the Hobbesian "state of nature.".
