At bottom, ISIS comes from a feeling of powerlessness, even by those
who/look/ powerful.
It's just the newest catchy acronym. When the media gets tired of one,
another will pop-up.
One is more violent than the last, just as one film is more violent than
the one before.
We're dealing with the same sickness that makes billionaires not being
able to stop wanting more.
The same unfathomable emptiness inside.
-Joel.
On 9/16/2014 9:42 AM, James Morris wrote:
On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 19:28 -0400, Alan Sondheim wrote:
Thanks and no problem; I'm really sensitive about this.
Where I might disagree, I think ISIS is the child of ISIS; I think blaming
colonialism for everything might be another form of colonization - that
is, these people are driven by force of the Other, not their own destiny,
their own choice - while we're given the 'luxury' of choice and destiny.
ISIS is cruel on their own terms, and those terms go all the way back
before the Crusades. I think as well that this is also unfortunately the
'human condition' - in other words there's a genetic component towards
exclusionary behavior, territorialization, demonization of the other, etc.
Chimps also have warfare; even sea anenomes do. So for me the question is
how do we avoid these horrors - which has to go beyond geopolitics;
geopolitics will always be with us, moreso as species head towards
extinction and the planet approaches its carrying-capacity of life.
And we need to defend ourselves against hostile extra terrestrial
forces, because we won't know for sure whether such forces exist or not
until they either attack us or we're technologically advanced enough to
actually rule out the idea of attack from hostile extra terrestrial
forces.
James.
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