Watch out for those ideas, kids
What is interesting from an historical point of view is the global world we live in. The news of the abuse could reach the arab world so fast, it could beat any military strategist. This points to the power of media like nothing else.
In the imperial times of the west revolutions in the colonies got started because of the modern media. So if media is power, how come we don’t vote for them?
In a certain way we do. We pay the magazines, news papers and cable networks. We pay for their technology, resources and networks. And then the news starts to travel. PC to PC, Blog to Blog, Mouth to Mouth.
The only solution for the United States now is to invest in the spreading of other ideas. Unfortunatly most of these travelling ideas are about anger, hate, fear, war and savagery. (Don’t forget Porn)
So how come one lousy piss on a Qu’ran managed to beat the message of friendship?
posted by jonathan even-zohar @ 00:50
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It was after the Gulf War that his mother and boyfriend at the time decided to 'descend' from the Holy land and set sail towards The Hague, being the birthplace of Even-Zohars
mother. Jonathan managed well in Grade school and High school, so the
next logical step was the University, the infinite source of knowledge.
After speculating on Industrial Design, Social Geography and Journalism
it was the study of History at Leiden that turned out to be his
decision.
Now, four years into the study, matters have only become more
complicated as this student advances towards World History; meaning the
complete array of fields a historian may implement in explaining the
entire past of the entire world to fellow men. It is especially the
philosophical character of World History that attracted Jonathan.
For him there is only one question that stands above all others like a
lonely chuchtower in some Flemish village, which asks the cause of the
Western Rise and the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, the role of the
European self- and worldimage throughout its history may explain the
role of Europe in the Eurasian Human Web. Thus, the direct contact
between Islam and Christianity is to be investigated. Were Muslims
constantly on the verge of invading Europe? How did Arab people perceive
the 'barbaric' Christians? How was Science spread and how did the West
pick up knowledge form the Arabs or from further East? Europe and the
Islam are still not at peace, certainly not in the mind.
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