[Nettime-bold] [ot] [!nt] \n2+0\

[integer@www.god-emil.dk]

> > To me too there are some points in the discussions about the so-called
> > terrorist attacks in the US that is still disturbing to me. Someone else
> > mentioned that we assume so easily that we know what other people actually
> > believe. How is it that we regard other cultures as being homogenous, when
> > in fact all cultures today are amazingly heterogeneous in their beliefs
>and > function on various levels ?
> >
> > This was the most valuable discovery people from different cultures made
> > about eachother since the end of apartheid in South Africa. > 
> > If it was not for "terrorism" apartheid would have still existed in South Africa.
> It was not at all pleasant times, not for anybody, especially
>during > the 80's. But, it was also not pleasant times for many before
>apartheid had > ended either. It is also not pleasant times for many at
>the moment due to > the high crime rate... but strange enough all this is
>more tolerable to the > larger number of people than how things were
>before the 90's.
> >>For some these attacks the past week mark an event in a much larger
> war, one > that is far more consequential, which to them is the war over
> the existence > of Western Civilization and specifically Christianity.
> Some people need an > enemy as much as others need a victim - so they
> just "create" one.






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