Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
#1 "The difference is here’s an ideology that appeals to them" ...a quote which could be used to describe why someone might join Al Qaeda but if you think about it, it's also something someone might say for a black person joining the Crips or Bloods.


#2 "This is an academic" ....indeed, a LEFTY, universities are overrun with them!

#3 "The best predictors turn out to be things like who your friends are and whether you belong to some action group." .....like an Al Qaeda terrorist cell
My reply was not meant just for you but seeing as you are willing to engage rationally

1. Yes there are indeed similarities there, but Jimmy and Timmy's feelings of disenfranchisement were not good reasons to join the Karazy Kripples any more than those westerners who end up becoming vehment anti-western fanatics. He is not trying to make a simple equation to explain things.


2. I think it is only in your head that academic and Lefty are interchangeable Lyle In Europe quite the opposite is often true, with Academics seen as conservative right wing members of the establishment.


3. He tries to make clear the independent nature of individuals and small groups and disavow us of the notion of cells. That is a military allegory that makes us feel there are similar military rules of engagement, and there are not. They are criminal and psychopathic.