tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post114059307027154763..comments2023-10-21T08:02:56.571-07:00Comments on No Dhimmitude: HAMAS and the Great White (Wash) North.Daghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-1140661119386492142006-02-22T18:18:00.000-08:002006-02-22T18:18:00.000-08:00It's odd that France and Canada are the grounds of...It's odd that France and Canada are the grounds of resistence in the greater Western world's struggle for a restored sanity in public affairs and civil society.I feel both obliged and privilged to be in the thick of things. <BR/><BR/>Regarding HAMAS, I've lived with them as private people for long stretches, and I have some idea of how they think, if one can call it that. And theres the problem: it isn't thinking in a rational sense, not even logical feeling in the sense one would encouter in some pot-smoking hippy. There isn't even a coherent hatred following a single line of reasoning. Its a mystical expression f reality that is, in my opinion, psychotic. The clearest explanation of the mind in question that I'm familiar with is Julien Jaynes' analysis of the bicameral mind. We're talkin' nutters. Upon a moment's reflection, one might legitimately describe them as a variant of classical gnostics.<BR/><BR/>I think I should wait to go into this in more detail, until I have a day to write fully. The problem is that in the West we have people in positions of pubic responsibility who have really not the faintest idea what they encounter in the likes of HAMAS. I'm going to have to take the time to explain my view in sufficeint detail to overcome the disbelief I know this will raise in the average Western reader. It is, on the face of it, unbelievable.<BR/><BR/>The PA is Machiavellian enough to do nearly anything one might think up. Theirs is a different kind of madness. Our problem is that we mostly assume that our enemies are like us but different. We will continue to lose our battles till we come to understand our own lack of understanding of our enemies.<BR/><BR/>So long as we rely on the likes of Richard Gwyn for our public information regarding our private opinions of the Muslim world and our relationship with it then we are in serious trouble. We must rid ourselves of fools such as he, and we must find aware and honest people who will and can expain our situation to us as a community under threat. We cannot allow such ignorant fools to continue to inform our public debates. We need people to show up at McDonald's on Thursday nights to talk openly about the failure of our public intellectuals and to find ways to articulate our concerns so we can mobilise for our own defense. <BR/><BR/>Our intellectuals are failures. We must find new thinkers with real ideas that apply to this new conditon we face. Our intellectuals will come from our meetings. That's democracy in action. That alone will save us. And it begins in places such as France and Canada. Yeah, I'm proud to be a member of this charge.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-1140600663258693102006-02-22T01:31:00.000-08:002006-02-22T01:31:00.000-08:00We need you Dag. So look on the brightside: I know...We need you Dag. So look on the brightside: I know Hamas is supposed to be so full of hatred for anything in this world that they are beyond corruption by simple worldly desires. But in reality, don't you think western money will buy the leaders a few nice cars, cellphones, foreign escorts, all the easier to make them targets for the Israeli missiles that will be retaliating for every act of Hamas aggression? Rick B. even suggests that the old Abbas guard will be sending rockets over the wall, just to watch Hamas catch the return fire.<BR/><BR/>Dag, your fight is with us, with the "we" that needs to come into being before we can do anything serious to defend the west against these assaults. We need you and i know you're not seriously thinking of leaving us. Richard Gwynn has always been a pretentious old fool. But now he's really an old man. Truth's time will come. But first all the old lies have to be revealed in full light. And the revealing is an art that sometimes requires a little dissimulation.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com