Re: Cartoon meme

From: Jerry Bryson (jbryson@infionline.net)
Date: Mon 13 Feb 2006 - 17:44:11 GMT

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    On Feb 12, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Douglas Brooker wrote:

    > Jerry Bryson wrote:
    >
    >> Off-hand, I'd guess he means the one about suicide bombers getting a
    >> load of virgins in Paradise. The teen age kids really believe it.
    >
    >
    > thanks, was making the point about how this meme has captured the
    > minds of people in the west.
    >
    > but I haven't seen evidence that it 'really' is believed, or the
    > degree to which any belief is literal, metaphoric or otherwise.

    I'm sure it isn't what they _all_ believe; it's what a few stressed-out kids believe. I did see one news feature where they were interviewing a kid whose bomb didn't go off and the Israelis caught him. He claimed to believe the virgins meme.

    Virgins or not, a few folks, even adults, seem to think blowing yourself up and killing innocents is a good thing to do. To me, that sounds like not knowing right from wrong, which qualifies as crazy in many Western jurisdictions.

    > a working comparative model might be to juxtapose the "End Days"
    > beliefs of many westerners and how these motivate foreign policy in
    > the middle east.

    Yes, even Jimmy Carter. Frankly, I think the Palestinians are just as Jewish as the mostly European transplants in Israel.
    >
    >
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    >> On Feb 11, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Douglas Brooker wrote:
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    >>>
    >>> What is the very dangerous meme out there that needs to be doused?
    >>
    >> Jerry
    >>
    >>
    >> "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice,
    >> they're different."
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