From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 21:41:00 MDT
In a message dated 10/15/2002 10:16:14 PM Central Standard Time,
recherchetenet@yahoo.com writes: I don't Bloom deserves to be taken too
seriously. I read all of "Lucifer Principle", and it's largely a propoganda
piece for one simple idea--the idea that memetic "superorganisms" as he calls
them can have major influence on history. But his scholarship is shoddy, and
his rhetoric is precise and careful and calculated in exactly the way one
would expect of someone who is more interested in pushing a point of view
than in finding the truth.
I may be off topic but I did read the reference given here about
Bloom's comments detailing the hostility of the Moslems. I refuse to do a
broad brush condemnation of Moslems as I know too many personally where that
shoe does not fit.
However based on the comments I read when I lurk on the Moslem site I
found the Bloom piece representative of maybe 50 or 60 percent of the people
commenting.
In addition this has been my experience in face to face encounters as
well as in reading press. There does seem to be a rather large number of
radicals out there that don't mean us any good. Nor can I find that the
radicals hate us for any wrong we have done them. However they do seem to
use real or imagined wrongs as a means of whipping up the moderates.
Ron h.
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