Been busy. At any rate...
There's a scene in "Syriana" in which a teacher at a madrassa is giving a lesson, the gist of which is "the West has failed". The prescribed response for his students is: jihad.
While I can't support the prescription, it's becoming ever more clear that the diagnosis is correct. The West has failed, and this can be seen easily simply by acknowledging the higher and higher levels of violence being inflicted by Western nations, most obviously the USA, on both other humans and on nature itself. It seems now that our only response to any and all problems is "war", either figurative or literal. And yet is is becoming painfully obvious that if our problems are to be solved, it can only be through cooperation, not by "destroying the enemy" (which has been the American response since 1941).
Since Americans, led by George W Bush, seem as far from realizing this as ever, I am forced to conclude that there will be no solution, and that the apocalypse that awaits us will not be averted. And sickest of all is the apparent fact that many Americans will welcome it (and not just the "Rapture" adherents).
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