[extropy-chat] al-Qaeda is growing fast

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:10 PM 5/29/2004 -0400, gts wrote:

>The occupation of Iraq is making the world less safe from al-Qaeda.

Since this was blindingly evident from the outset, and based on lies (as I 
and others noted at the time on this list), you have to wonder what propels 
the decision-makers. Could it really be as simple as the bloated delusions 
and interests of office coupled with the frailty of human levels of smarts 
and attention?

This is cartooned, of course, in THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (which turns out to 
be a pretty stunning example of effective CGI work, despite the dubious or 
mendacious `science' of those great climate experts Art Bell and Whitley 
Strieber.) Which leads me by an abrupt climate change of topic to note that 
D.A.T. could serve a useful purpose in preparing people for the idea of 
drastic sudden change--so that, as technologicl singularity zooms closer, 
the usual assumption of placid continuity with the past will no longer be 
the default.

Damien Broderick