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this is the guy from zeitgeist addendum!
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"But if you reorient people without touching the environment, it'll slip back."

This is why a religionless Middle East would still be bloody. It's the environment that engenders extremism and violence--the poverty, desperation, and segregation. Incidentally, those things are all present in India but somehow their culture and religion keeps everything on an even keel (as far as I can tell).

I don't quite agree that information can eliminate superstition. Well maybe I agree with the principle, but it will never be eliminated because there are always events that seem random to our brains, and ways to misinterpret that data. There's a limit to one's knowledge, but information is limitless, so there is always a disparity.

^ That was one of the quotes that stuck out in my mind, too.

I'm not sure I agree with you regarding the Middle East. I don't know if you're familiar with the Iraqi blogger "Riverbend" but during the hot days of the war, the picture that she painted of Iraq was significantly different than the...sound bites we were fed in the U.S.

The Sunni's and Shiites weren't nearly as hostile to each other as we'd been lead to believe, which makes me think that a lot of those car bombings were CIA false flag operations.

If the USA had the desire to bring real cultural or political change to the Middle East, it probably could over the course of ten years. Wouldn't change everything, but we'd see progress. Setting up puppet governments and privatizing every resource that has any value doesn't spell progress to me.

However, helping the Middle East is the last of the war machine's concerns.