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+Don’t fall into “the ET trap”
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+:category: research
+:date: 2005-12-20T00:00:00
+:tags: boston, celebrity
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+There is a trap in thinking about the Boston miracle, and I think that
+so far (to the best of my knowledge) all researchers trying to
+understand what is (what was?) going on did fall in it. I would call it
+“the ET trap” (ET as “The Entertainment Tonight” one of the most stupid
+celebrity obsessed shows on the US TV) and it goes like this: “… there
+are some interesting people trying to do something interesting (or
+merely claiming to do something interesting) and here are the
+results—see the heroes who made the change!” Yes, I return still back to
+the question, how much actually mattered to the average kid on the
+street of Roxbury that Revs. Hammond, Rivers, and Brown had been talking
+with officials of the Boston Police Department? And I still cannot find
+an explanation, why it would matter that much, especially in the
+short-run.
+
+But maybe there is a good very long-term process going on here of the
+redefinition of the identity, but that couldn’t make a change so
+prominent in so short time.