{"id":46,"date":"2005-07-31T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/2005\/07\/three-mass-movements-60-years\/"},"modified":"2005-07-31T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T22:14:00","slug":"three-mass-movements-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/three-mass-movements-60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Mass Movements, 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Islamic Terrorists –\u00a060\u2019s Radicals –\u00a0Neo-conservative fundamentalists<\/p>\n

These three great mass movements, as strangely different as they are, each multiplied from almost nothing to represent huge open communities of interest only because they struck some true chord in human experience.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an obvious fact. \u00a0Actual fraud by an evil wizard wouldn\u2019t have the success each of these have had, because huge cross sections of people are just not that stupid.<\/p>\n

Islamic Terrorists\u00a0\u2013 death to\u00a0America, fundamentalist Muslim, jihad, martyr, Sharia law, straight to heaven<\/p>\n

60\u2019s Radicals\u00a0\u2013 peace, civil & women\u2019s rights, soft tech, sex drugs rock & roll, communes, love & harmony<\/p>\n

Neo-conservatives\u00a0\u2013 anti communist, government & liberal, pro-military, family & life, anti-gay, born again<\/p>\n

What\u2019s quite interesting, of course, is that the basic validity of each is extremely hard to see from each other\u2019s point of view. Trying to force your mind to do it tends to leave you blank and angry.<\/p>\n

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To me it\u2019s apparent that each of these great mass movements represents a separate reality, not just a different style or group of opinions, but a profoundly self-validating world view that places the others outside its experience, alien and unwanted. Ask yourself, do they act like they\u2019re off living in a bubble???<\/p>\n

If the answer is yes, and you start with a list of others\u2026 well then it\u2019s time to discuss what to do about it. Aliens are here and now, and all over history. For centuries we\u2019ve mostly denigrated, repressed and murdered them, and that\u2019s not good enough. A friend reminds me, look at the 600 year repression of the Irish, for just one of a million examples. We all deserve better.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not proposing a \u2018freedom of reality\u2019 any different from religious freedom, but mainly pointing out that there\u2019s a need for improved strategies for dealing with it. Hate speech and its use for dehumanizing mind-control, by power hungry leaders, manipulating us with their war chants and fevers, are fairly easy to spot if you look for them. On the other side, since there\u2019s something to be learned from other realities, we could try making a point of listening, perhaps most intently to their small voices.<\/p>\n

The main cause for this discussion now is what seems like a new openness, following the recent London bombings, to discussing what to do about Islamic terrorism. The problem seems to be with a fringe of a fringe, but when you look closer the roots are really with a very widespread community.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt that effective police work, perhaps focusing on terrorist recruiters and schools, strong leadership from Muslim teachers world wide, better investigative reporting by the press, government security measures & constructive world engagement, bridge building people-to-people contact and church & community leadership, etc. will all have their good effect.<\/p>\n

The main thing though, as I see it, is asking, why do they say \u201cdeath to America\u201d. That this is a central structure of their distorted reality makes it a wide open invitation to interfere with their rigid iconic image of us by acting in a way that does not fit. All we\u2019d need to do is come to understand some of our \u2018great crimes\u2019, deep insults to others that we\u2019ll probably be very glad to get rid of, if only someone would kindly help us and point them out.<\/p>\n

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Islamic Terrorists –\u00a060\u2019s Radicals –\u00a0Neo-conservative fundamentalists These three great mass movements, as strangely different as they are, each multiplied from almost nothing to represent huge open communities of interest only because they struck some true chord in human experience. It\u2019s an obvious fact. \u00a0Actual fraud by an evil wizard wouldn\u2019t have the success each of … Continue reading Three Mass Movements, 60 years<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-along","category-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}