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<DIV>In a message dated 7/23/2004 6:35:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, eshel@tamar.tau.ac.il writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I agree with what you have wrote. I am convinced that if western society will continue </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>along the current approach it will stop to exist. What will happen then is not clear. You did not talk about China. It might become the next power and not the Islam.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>Eshel--I've written about China elsewhere...in
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">“Will This Be The Chinese Century?” In <I>Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New York: The Disinformation Company Ltd., 2002.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The gist of the matter is this. China has a unique historical luxury. It can watch while the West and Islam pummel each other to death. It can sit by while militant Islam cuts the sinews and tendons of the United States and, in the process, wastes the Islamic Umma's resources and strength.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Then it can step into the vacuum that this war of civilizations, this war of worlds, creates. Howard</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>