Re: The terrorism meme

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 04 Nov 2002 - 21:50:27 GMT

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    > > > joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
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    > > > > http://www.meforum.org/article/175
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    > > > Middle East Forum, ("Protecting America's Interests) - colleagues
    > > > of our friends in Campus Watch.
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    > > Ad hominem. Check out the articles, and judge them on their merits.
    > > I could have posted scathing critiques of Edward Said, but
    > > refrained.
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    > it's politics Joe, politics are all about ad hominen. the publication
    > you refer to and its affiliates are preceded by their reputations.
    > you might just as well have referred us to the Likud Party homepage.
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    The data they use is provided by the most highly respected (by all sides) organization documenting deaths and their causes in the region, B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.

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    > > The power of this meme depends on its exploitation of the collective
    > > narcissism and paranoia of the Israeli people.
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    > > Ted
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    > the word narcissism has crossed by mind thinking about tendencies in
    > Israeli politics and behaviour. Is is appropriate? where does the
    > narcissism come from? can we understand it without understanding the
    > role of religious zealots who are largely kept from western view?
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    What is your opinion of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights organization whose legal suits bankrupted the Klan and caused the NeoNazi Christian Identity movement to lose its Hadyn Lake, Idaho compound? This is what they have to say about the connections between the neoNazis and the militant fundamentalist Muslims:

    http://www.corpse.org/issue_11/broken_news/lee.html
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    > I'm interested in the ways in which cultures shut out (ignore)
    > information. is there a meme-specific way of talking about this?
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    Some memetic hooks are accompanied by filters, which act to prevent competing views from being absorbed, thus insulating and protecting the memeplex of which the hooks and filters are parts.
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