14. Satire, whatever it's ideological intent, is a powerful secularizing agent: it's message is that "nothing is sacred."
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25. In Europe in particular, it seems like any solution lays the seeds for future problem.
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26. As I said, on the issues of free speech and protection of Jewish minority, there can't be any compromise.
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@HeerJeet Merriman's "Dynamite Club" argues that 19th C anarchists eventually repulsed even sympathetic citizens. -
@biliousbarnacle I think that's one possible way this could end.
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@HeerJeet there was a good podcast on freakonomics about terrorism, we should look at Basque and Ireland for solutions -
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@heerjeet What sort of time span is the "short run?"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet At the root of all this is the all-too-human ease of using the lower-order fear center of our brains, not the higher order: love.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I share your pessimism because every religion uses its illusions of higher love to justify fear-based reactionary tribalism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet We don't teach each other or our children to seek to respond to fear with love. So terrorism works and breeds more of itself.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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