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June 1st, 2007, search relatedRelated posts :: FYI - step 2 continued :: BBC Chavez :: heil :: says it all
> Dear Tudor;
> I have cast a doomsday scenario by positing extremes the better to
> reckon with a reconnciliation of opposites as tetium quid. What draws
> my pessimism is how immune are the radical Jihadists to life, ours and
> their own,
First, they have nothing to lose. Give them some juicy stocks at NYSE, and
probably they will think twice before risking their fortunes.
Second, they act out their frustrations. They think that’s called idealism.
Third, we would do the Easterners an injustice to call them “individuals”.
Individuals only exist in the West. You cannot apply such concepts to an
Easterner without distorting his/her personality. In the East, there is
group-mind and collective thinking. There the person is simply a cog-wheel
in a collectivity. The person sacrifices his/her own life because prompted
to do so by his/her peers. He/she cares more about his/her group than about
himself/herself. Therefore, applying individualistic logics to such people
is totally flawed. They do not want to be considered individuals and they
have no use for individualism, except taking war (which was a collective
activity pertaining to state armies) into their own hands. They do not
subscribe to the golden rule of individualism, namely “alterum non laedere”.
Fourth, many of them, since they do not have the right to drink alcohol,
they use hashish. The herb of the Assassins…
> But such ideology where death is the desired goal and with
> hardly an alternative in life and the living.Hence, what I call the
> ontology of death takes form and soon enough spreads as the single
> agency for achievement and more often as a personal and secular praxis.
> It is as if the greater number killed the greater the degree of
> absolution in the worship of a Deus Thanatos.
Well, as Freud noticed, there are two forces in life: Eros and Thanatos. You
cannot have one without the other.
Greetings,
Tudor
