Good points, Mike. I see aggressive authoritarianism as a
developmental stage. This behaviour did not start in the 20th century,
it starts as humans develop a sense of individual self.
Not just societies ( or "religions" ) but all human effort - from an
infant growing to adulthood to our sh
Is the problem blowing up in the Middle East Islam or something else? On
the one hand it is fully dressed up as Islam. It wears turbans, speaks
Arabic quotes the Koran and the Hadith, issues Fatwas. Is seems fully
Islamic and sounds like religious fanaticism. But, oddly, if you strip away
the r
