RE: Why Europe is so Contrary

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 22 Nov 2002 - 18:47:52 GMT

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    > Snip....................Joe:
    > >> ...the US has to be blamed for EVERYthing. I don't think you have
    > carefully
    > >> considered the memetic nature of the threat to postmodern
    > >> civilization by a violently cannibalistic medieval memeset.>
    > >>Snip.............
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    > Maybe that is what we have got Joe, a 'postmodern civilisation';
    > everyone defines their own; everyone doubts the Grand-narratives. But,
    > at the same time, everyone is civilised too. To think that this
    > blissful state of affairs could be jeopardised by 'a violently
    > cannibalistic medieval memeset', it's tragic. Now is that a medieval
    > memeset that violently devours other medieval memesets, or just other
    > memesets in general? And Joe, have you considered the effect, on
    > existing civilisations, of allowing a new violently cannibalistic
    > memeset to have political and economic dictatorship of the planet?
    > Jeremy
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    No, the medieval cannibalistis memeset MUST devour modernity, or be devoured BY it. It's cannibalism is a survival strategy; it can see itself surviving only through conquest. Much as the Nazis did, the Islamofascists appropriate the bloody 'convert or die' methodology; they even share the same scapegoat. Actually, the Wahhabist strain that began this mess is less than 200 years old, so we are seeing the forced REgression of a significant percentage of the members of a once- modernizing faith, which carried the banner of civilization between the Roman Empire and the Enlightenment. The US does not want to rule other countries; it just wants their peoples to be free to form them and democratically choose their leaders on a regular basis, and believes that, if this is the case, that their populaces, out of the conjunction of self-interest and economic interdependence, will learn how to play fairly and well together, and will direct their respective governmental representatives to do the same (much as Europe has).
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