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Posted by me on the Economist website
AQ are like Venture Capitalists for any muslim grouping that has its back to the wall.
The bargain includes many freebies like foreign ‘ plug and play’ fighters and a Faustian pact that unfortunately includes an Ebola like political agenda in the small print.
In the short term though…in a very Darwian way….religious groups will always trump tribal groups as it always has done in human history.
So bets are on Shahab in the short run….other iterations of religious groups in the long run.Tribes and clans are never going to get above this unless they find another way of organising themselves and a bigger better sugar daddy .Very unlikely.
So the show goes on.
Another more salient point….
Globalization is like Jupiter (or like giant gear wheels ..I call Jupiter class powers…US USSR China Europe …and lesser but up and coming Jupiters..India and Brazil…..they crush and will crush any contra-rotating forces ) ..crushing the nursery that is Religion.All religious start-ups are cranky ..it helps with discipline and loyalty in the uderclasses. But in this Globalized world…you can’t get away with making enemies ..
Tribal societies need the religious rung of the organisational ladder …to create stability..as a stepping stone upwards….
In this Globalized world..that is no longer possible…Hence the Taliban and the Somali twin…would have worked 50 years ago…but not today.These baby tribal societies need to run quickly..because they ar’nt going to get a crawling stage in which to develop and strengthen.
So what kind of stage will there be…..Somalia and Afghanistan are the largest tribal societies probably in the world…..I think there is a clue here.This itself could be the cause of their failure.But how did they last so long ?
Are they the gaps between the Jupiter wheels that could’nt mesh together ( Russia and Brittania in the Great Game ) …but that do mesh now?..Held previously in suspension between India and Pakistan in the recent past was another version of the Great Game.
The only Game in town is now Globilization.You can’t go it alone .
My only guess is that Somalia and Afghanistan would benefit from being broken up and turned into geographical units that represent the unit ethnic groups…allowing them to compete under a security umbrella by outside powers.
One power patron per ethnic grouping.That way they can compete and learn from other without wasting time /money / lives on competing for resources.
March 11, 2010
Jokes of Israel
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Israeli Supermarket parodies a killing to promote food sales.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8561247.stm
This country is rapidly developing a singular lack of good taste in its humour.
I know this attempt to sell food from a supermarket involves only the death of one person ( that Dubai Hamas hit ) but when you add in the comedy shows that blamed the image of Israel as bloodthirsty irrational killers on foreign news crews ( like the BBC) and nothing at all to do with anything they themselves have conjured up ….you get a country fueled sky high on its own fantasies.
The only thing wrong with that satirists anger with the fictional and delusional idea of foreign news reporting….is that the Israelis are not irrational.Its all rational.Hit us , we hit you 10 times back.Get organised , we hit you.Need a provocation to justify something , we hit you.Not that Fatah was any better …just more inept.
Israelis have humour to add to their extensive arsenal of self delusion. In a world of their own.
Putting the Turkish Ambassador on a smaller chair was no doubt the Government deciding that Comedy is the future .The application of humour and comedy to help humiliate an Ally is a new weapon….unleashed on a foreign power.
Who will be next?
Obama will get the full roast ….but when he leaves Office.
Just like the US is dividing into two separate poles …one based on fear and singularly lacking in humour ( one element is the Tea Party , Fox news ) and the other more liberal US that is not fear based and has a sense of humour ( Jewish people in the US like John Stewart ).
I think that the famous Jewish sense of humour is alive and kicking in the US because they are politically poles apart form the Jews in Israel who have a fear based society ( and thus have a singular lack of humour in their …humour )
Humour resides in the right frontal lobes and fear in a pole ( or poles ) of the Amygdala ( fear centre of the brain ) and that translates into two different types of political beings.
I have my theories on the Left Right divide.( based on personal insecurity and how we deal with it on a fine grained subconscious level ) ..heres a another piece of the jigsaw I need to add in somehow.
The Supermarket ad is important ..because an ad shows acceptable enough behaviours .
Is it the Russian influx? Israel has had tougher times before than now…yet it seems to be sliding deeper into its own right wing bubble.
Netanyahu looks like a willing passenger rather than any leader …unlike Sharon.
He is like right wing wallpaper , mood music.Something has to give and I think the flat jokes might be all that Israel has to offer.