My concern is that in this "post-national state" where there is "no core identity [and] no mainstream" (um, who said those things?) the writer's argument is rather superfluous. Clearly, the broader implications of the massacre in Quebec City can be interpreted completely differently depending on one's circumstances and point of view. We're united only by being part of nothing bigger than our own identity communities. It's kind of ironic, isn't it? It seems like a rather lonely and sterile destiny.