Comments on: The Appeal of Apocalypse http://www.adfinemfidelis.net/mongrel/2007/06/the-appeal-of-apocalypse/ Thoughts on teaching, politics, life in general Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen Rider http://www.adfinemfidelis.net/mongrel/2007/06/the-appeal-of-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-3025 Stephen Rider Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:56:06 +0000 http://www.adfinemfidelis.net/mongrel/2007/06/19/the-appeal-of-apocalypse/#comment-3025 I tried to comment on a different post. It was eaten because the captcha image is missing. Perhaps you need to reinstall Spam Karma? I tried to comment on a different post. It was eaten because the captcha image is missing. Perhaps you need to reinstall Spam Karma?

]]> By: Stephen Rider http://www.adfinemfidelis.net/mongrel/2007/06/the-appeal-of-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-3019 Stephen Rider Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:01:26 +0000 http://www.adfinemfidelis.net/mongrel/2007/06/19/the-appeal-of-apocalypse/#comment-3019 Let's not forget the "coming apocalypse" of Global Warming Global Climate Change. RE: "I don’t know if the same impulse exists outside of Western (indeed, American) culture." As the only country to have been nuked, the Japanese are also pretty preoccupied with Armageddon. Watch some Anime sometime and you'll see that a whole lot of it takes place in worlds "after the fall" or fast heading toward one. ... The biggest harm we have done to ourselves in the Middle East, and a major cause of events including 9/11, was convincing the Bin Ladens of the world that we are decadent and weak-willed. He was NOT expecting us to come after Al Quaeda, because we've spent the decades since Jimmy Carter's capitulation with Iran convincing them that we're too much of wimps to follow through. Even now he is quite happy watching all the reports of American politics, because of all the political posturing of those demanding that we pull out immediately. Let’s not forget the “coming apocalypse” of Global Warming Global Climate Change.

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“I don’t know if the same impulse exists outside of Western (indeed, American) culture.”

As the only country to have been nuked, the Japanese are also pretty preoccupied with Armageddon. Watch some Anime sometime and you’ll see that a whole lot of it takes place in worlds “after the fall” or fast heading toward one.

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The biggest harm we have done to ourselves in the Middle East, and a major cause of events including 9/11, was convincing the Bin Ladens of the world that we are decadent and weak-willed. He was NOT expecting us to come after Al Quaeda, because we’ve spent the decades since Jimmy Carter’s capitulation with Iran convincing them that we’re too much of wimps to follow through. Even now he is quite happy watching all the reports of American politics, because of all the political posturing of those demanding that we pull out immediately.

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