Feed a starving peasant--create a revolutionary.
That was Mao's insight, verdad?
Hal
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Theory of Harmony
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Halvard Johnson
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On Jul 11, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> There is some suggestion that jihadist organisations do not recruit
> from among the most desperate, but from the comparatively privileged.
> Nihilism as a disease of affluence. According to this line of
> thinking, it isn't (as one is encouraged to suppose) the desperation
> of the hopelessly ground-down that motivates such recruits - it's the
> spite of narcissists.
>
> Of course I have no idea if this is true; it's just that as a sometime
> spiteful narcissist myself I can see how it might work that way.
>
> Doris Lessing's _The Good Terrorist_ is a study in the psychology of
> this type - albeit more the Baader Meinhof sort than the jihadist. My
> mum made me read it years ago; I can imagine what she was thinking.
>
> Saw a program with interviews with the surviving Baader Meinhoffers a
> while back. Struck by what total wankers they all seemed to be: I mean
> really quite personally objectionable individuals.
>
> Dominic
>
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