...like I said, I work in financial services...
My most favourite idiot comment is; "I'd do anything for my kids. They come first," which is so often uttered by people who are
1. In debt up to their eyeballs
2. Have no home but who have two new - leased - vehicles
3. Do not understand that their kids can't live in a car
4. Don't know that buying a boat or a motorcycle before they buy a house is NOT putting the kids first.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
The Looming Tower
I heard the most interesting lecture tonight, which I shall greatly simplify here: theoretically, one of the main reasons Al Queda has become and grown is the way Muslim society treats its women and men. In short, the women are segregated so the men are, to paraphrase, unsocialised, horny, lonely and angry.
Add to that, they marry late,sometimes not until they're into their 40s. Because they not only hang out almost exclusively with [embed]men, and rarely see women on the streets, they are also untouched by the "civilizing influence of women," so they go looking for a group of similarly horny, lonely, angry men.
Rather than changing social structure (impossible: ingrained and locked down by religion), they war instead.
The interview was on CBCs "Ideas" and was done by the author of The Looming Tower
If/when CBC posts the audio from that lecture, I'll post it here.
Add to that, they marry late,sometimes not until they're into their 40s. Because they not only hang out almost exclusively with [embed]men, and rarely see women on the streets, they are also untouched by the "civilizing influence of women," so they go looking for a group of similarly horny, lonely, angry men.
Rather than changing social structure (impossible: ingrained and locked down by religion), they war instead.
The interview was on CBCs "Ideas" and was done by the author of The Looming Tower
If/when CBC posts the audio from that lecture, I'll post it here.
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