Re: Some Saudi Schools Teach Students to Hate the U.S., Love Osama

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri 13 Dec 2002 - 12:40:37 GMT

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    On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 12:39 AM, Jeremy Bradley wrote:

    > when communicating with myopic fundies of any denomination, [...] each
    > example discussed is treated as an attack on the meme-team's territory.
    > It is therefore stoutly defended.

    This is another way of saying that arguing with a believer is futile. Better to just get rid of the non-believers....

    > What I want to find out is, is there a difference between someone who
    > hates
    > Islam and someone who hates the US, and is the difference 'real' or
    > memetic.

    On almost any front, hate is hate and allows violence. Is hate memetic? That goes back to what our nature is. We are certainly killers, certainly lovers. Ain't memetics more a way to filter and utilize these urges?

    The memetic filters of islam do not prevent violence because they do not condemn it against the enemy, and they have a very singular and fundamental definition of enemy.

    - Wade

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